New prospects for Uganda's youth through quality education

Anyone who visits the St. Anthony School in Kyazanga, Uganda today will be amazed: in the middle of this impoverished area, motivated young people are sitting at their PCs, conducting experiments in the chemistry lab, working on Excel spreadsheets, doing research in the library or on the internet, and participating in online forums. What a blessing for the St. Anthony School in Kyazanga! Well-equipped science classrooms, a modern computer room with 46 PCs, a school library, a light-flooded administration building with a teachers’ room and space for school social work – all this has been made possible at this school by the support of help alliance between 2019 and 2023.

The St. Anthony School is located in a particularly needy area in the district of Lwengo. The name “Kyazanga” means in the local language Luganda that the harvests are meager and the animals do not thrive. But now there are completely new perspectives for these disadvantaged young people. Experiments are carried out in the science wing, which helps students to better understand the content; consequently, grades in science are steadily improving.

In the spacious and bright staff room, teachers prepare for class while the guidance counselor is deep in conversation with a student next door. And during the break and in the afternoon, you can find the young people either studying on their own in the new library or in the IT classroom, which they can also access outside of class hours until 10 p.m.

Due to the excellent IT equipment, the school was also lucky enough to be included in the Ugandan “Cyber Schools” program, which provides access to a wide range of e-learning software and virtual laboratories. The first students have already passed their IT exam with excellent results, and more students will follow in the future.

The difference between the situation before 2019 and today is enormous. A door to the future has opened for young people. They will no longer have to live like their parents from subsistence farming, but will be able to contribute their skills to the modern world and earn their money there.