Monday 12 December 2016

TERM 3, ACADEMIC YEAR 2016




Child Poverty and Deprivation:
Children themselves realize that poverty in childhood can lead to poverty in adulthood. For a child poverty can last a lifetime. Where a child lacks parental support,
experiences violence and abuse or fails to get an education the consequences are a diminished adulthood which is hard to escape.
Further, this poverty then sets the foundations into which their own children will be born, and the inter-generational cycle of poverty continues.

Dec.2016: Destiny Pre-school children in Namuwongo, a slum within Kampala district.


Dec. 2016: One of our staff at Destiny school
Dec. 2016: Some our Primary 3 children with their End of Term 3 results and report cards, 9th Dec.2016.
Destiny school children participating in co-curricular activities few meters away from the school in Namuwongo slum, Kampala.
Children eating porridge at Destiny School

Friday 29 July 2016

2016 Term 2 @Destiny Pre-school.

Destiny preschool is located in the center of Namuwongo in Uganda, providing education support to needy and orphaned children.
Please explore our page for recent activities. Destiny provides education to children living in the slums of Namuwongo and the neighboring villages with support from our friends. 
You can volunteer with us today. Please contact us on how you can join the team, and how you can be a blessing to the children.

Yr 2016: Children pose for a photo at Destiny school.
Charles with some of Destiny Pre-school children.

 
Children's Sukuma wiki garden @Destiny Pre-school.



Children's pottery work.


Yr 2016: at Destiny Pre-school



   

The population of Namuwongo:

Namuwongo slum is inhabited by refugees, mostly Women and children, from Northern Uganda, The D.R. Congo and Sudan and from some other areas that were affected by the LRA movement and conflict. There are also many other immigrants from rural areas in Uganda where living conditions are poor, there is no access to good health care, standard education, welfare services and where employment rates are low.
During the ongoing conflict in Uganda, Kampala has turned into a refugee city for many conflict victims. The neighborhood located in the city’s eastern margins was built up in patches, one hut attached to another, gradually they became a slum.
The vast part of the slum’s community is illiterate and lacks professional skills.
Many of the women are single mothers or function as single mothers and are often unable to provide themselves and their children the most basic needs such as food and accommodation.

As a result of this great poverty, parents/caretakers (mostly women) are also unable to pay the school fees required at public schools; many of the children do not study in an educational framework and are often sent to work. Thus, the cycle of poverty, illiteracy and unemployment perpetuates.

2016 photo: Part of Namuwongo

Houses in the Namuwongo slum

A house in Namuwongo

Children 

Tuesday 12 April 2016

Academic Year2016 Term 1

We take this opportunity to thank Destiny preschool family and friends for standing with us, children were able to do End of year 2015 final exams.  Term 1 for academic year 2016 begun in early February with activities which included setting up a small children's garden of vegetables and greens at the school's space. Soon before end of April children  will be doing Exams to crown 2016 First term's activities the second week of May.
Below are photos for our small garden, and more photos for some of our children who completed nursery to join primary one at Destiny.
Support a child today. Support the gardening program.
The space is limited please help us acquire enough space where more vegetables and other food crops can be planted so as to be able to feed more needy children at Destiny. These are children living in the slum areas of Namuwongo-Uganda. People in Namuwongo and Soweto live in very confined spaces, 1 or 2 rooms for a family of at least 5 members. Life in Namuwongo is characterized by poverty, diseases and lack of shelter.
Dec.2015: Some of Primary 3 children doing End of Year Exams at Destiny school


Sukuma wiki planted at Destiny preschool.
Sukuma wiki planted at Destiny preschool.
Timothy M: completed nursery and joined primary one this year Destiny.
Some of the children at Destiny preschool.
Cynthia A: has just joined primary one after completing her nursery in 2015 at Destiny Preschool

August 2017 Photo Essay

At Destiny children are supported in the area of education, scholastic items and other basic needs are provided to them. These are orphaned...