CHANGE A CHILD’S LIFE FOR $1 A DAY
Good Hope School is funded by compassionate people like you
The Good Hope School is a special community school and orphanage located in a poor rural district of Southwestern Uganda. Since 2007 vulnerable children in this community have been sponsored by donations from across the world. Your $1 per day ($365/year) contribution feeds, educates and houses your sponsor child while providing life in a safe and supportive community vs. despair and destitution on the streets.
See the difference your support makes in the lives of these special children
YOUR SUPPORT IN ACTION
CHANGING LIVES THROUGH EDUCATION
The Good Hope School Story
The Good Hope School is a special community school and orphanage located in a poor rural district of Southwestern Uganda. It was established by a young school teacher, and our friend, Innocent Tumuheki, on his family’s land in 2007, with the support of the Peace Pedalers Foundation, headed by adventurer and social entrepreneur Jamie Bianchini. Innocent’s vision was to provide accessible and affordable education to the children of the district and a loving home for local orphaned children whose parents had died (generally from AIDS). Check out Jamie’s inspiring Peace Pedalers Africa video here.
The school offers Kindergarten - 7th Grade education and is a government-licensed primary school and registered non-profit charitable organization in Uganda. They employ 10 teachers and 5 support staff, including a live-in matron and patron for the children's full-time care. There are currently 140 children enrolled, of which around half are orphaned or extremely needy and living at the school either full or part-time. Since its founding in 2007, hundreds of vulnerable children have graduated from the school, and many have pursued advanced educational and career paths.
A small International Advisory Group of volunteers from the USA and Australia, who have all personally spent time at the school over the years, work together to provide mentoring support to Innocent and his team, and to help fundraise for school maintenance and upgrade projects.
SUSTAINABLE FUNDING
Orphan Sponsorship Program
In June 2020, the International Advisory Group commenced a project with Innocent to establish a project plan, budget, and governance for a sponsorship initiative to connect fully and partially orphaned children with international sponsors. The aim was to provide financial support for the orphans independently of the school’s stretched operating budget.
Our main goal with sponsorships is for each child to know they have a family member or someone out there in the world who is supporting them from afar and celebrating their accomplishments. Sponsorships give the kids and community hope. These children have been dealt a very tough hand in life and shouldn’t have to carry the additional anxiety of worrying that they’ll be turned out onto the streets or feel that they are a burden to the school or their community.
Change a life today by becoming a sponsor of a child in need.
