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                        Staff Members at Don Bosco Primary School during meeting

This included all the staff members of institution both teaching and non-teaching. It started at 4:00pm. The meeting was opened by a prayer from our beloved director Rev Fr Elly. It was chaired by Rev Br John Njuguna the provincial economer of the Africa Great Lakes (AGL) Salesian Province. He started by welcoming each and everybody who had attended as thus went ahead by  appreciating everyone’s effort towards the smooth running of the institution.

                                                3 Sudanese Refugees Children at CALM:

                                     From the left: Angelo (P5), Robert (P4) and Amos (P4)

Children and life mission (CALM) Namugongo receives 3 new members from south Sudan for the first time by names of Angelo Gore, Robert Sanya, and Amos Sabit. This was on 4/03/2017. For our home to receive members from outside Uganda is a great opportunity most especially from South Sudan where there are political instabilities.  We really feel so privileged by God to extend our mission out of Uganda.

          The debate at Don Bosco primary school

Yesterday in the Afternoon the pupils of Don Bosco primary school carried  on a debating competition among themselves on the motion which stated that Modern technology is better than traditional technology .The motion was so interesting that one side had to win, that is to say the proposition side won the opposition side .After the debate the boys and girls were very happy about the it .

Six new staff members at Don Bosco primary school.

At the beginning of this year we found it worthy to add more new staff members at Don Bosco primary school since the number of the pupils are also increasing highly these are qualified teachers who have got general knowledge they are not specific like any others teachers from other schools ours are special ones, now so far our school admits pupils from primary to primary five and within the two weeks of the school opening we have got twelve new pupils and the six new teachers  three from Uganda and three from Belgium of which I think ratio is proportional. However ,the Belgian teachers arrived on 7^th of February 2017  .

        houses 

Renovation of the houses and the compound at CALM

Before the beginning of the new academic  year ,the community of Namugongo thought of renovating the houses which are in the CALM this was done to change to the new look of the place and as I talk now the renovations are still going on .Now when you  pass around the CALM , you might think it is half London the place has changed the look and the view.

The new boys who joined the community of CALM 2017

As the old boys left the CALM for resettlement to their homes, we also receive some other new boys in the community to replace the those ones who have gone so far we have registered the total number of 6 new boys in the CALM we hope they will cope up with the situation and the standard of the CALM .

                  leveling the flow

Today the construction has advanced to the level of slap they, have begun pouring the stone to level the flow of the foundation, they are still bringing more materials for beginning now serious constructions more so for the raising of the wall .Despite of the hot sunshine hitting them they still resist for the betterment of the young boys and girls who are soon coming back from their holidays to begin their studies

                  Stones for leveling the flow 

Today the construction has advanced to the level of slap they, have begun pouring the stone to level the flow of the foundation, they are still bringing more materials for beginning now serious constructions more so for the raising of the wall .Despite of the hot sunshine hitting them they still resist for the betterment of the young boys and girls who are soon coming back from their holidays to begin their studies.

    Home visit to                                                                 some of the neighborhood

Yesterday Fr. Venuste and Br. Hubert carried on home visitation to some of the boys like TABULA Simon Gabriel, and MUGUME Joseph who live near by the community. According to the confreres’ report and the photos they took showed that the young boys are really very happy in their families and in their guardians’ families.  

                   ground level now

The foundation is now out as you can see from the photo above. This morning visiting the site, I found that the foundation of the new building has been raised from the underground to the ground level. This is quite promising that by the end of this month of January the construction will be at least at the window level if they continue with the same speed of working .