Yesterday's attempt to find internet in Nkokonjeru, the town nearest St. Paul School, was futile. Even though I have a transportable internet modem that uses a very popular cell phone carrier’s network, there was not enough service to actually use the internet.
We arrived at St. Paul School yesterday afternoon and most of the children had already returned home. As we approached the school I could see the red roof of the new school poking out through the treetops. Then the trees and bushes parted and I laid my eyes on the incredible transformation that has become of St. Paul School! The new school building towers over the old school structure that is still where the students are taking classes until the roof of the new school is completed. The students will begin to use the new school even though it is lacking window and doors. Of course, we had budgeted for windows and doors, but the costs of construction exceeded our expectations, so the installation of windows and doors will have to wait until we can afford to do so.
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| St. Paul School Compound |
In front of the new school (behind the old school) is a field full of leafy green vegetables that the school is growing for student lunches. And above the garden are five EnviroLoo toilets, which are in fact the first EnviroLoo toilets to be installed in all of Uganda! These toilets are waterless and waste-composting. For more information on EnviroLoo, please click
here. Attached to the bathroom structure is a 500-liter water tank that is connected to a double spouted hand washing station.
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| EnviroLoo Bathroom Building |
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| Hand Washing Station |
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| New School Building (not quite finished) |
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| Old School Structure |
LOVE seeing the new school building!
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