Successful exam results for JMLC pupils

Successful exam results for JMLC pupils

A core programme of CALM Africa, which CFU funding helps to support, is education. A key pillar of child protection is quality education, keeping children safe in schools and giving them the skills to enrich their future. The Uganda National Examinations Board has released the 2016 Primary Leaving Examinations results. The results were received with excitement at JMLC, as the […]

CFU Chair’s update

CFU Chair’s update

Last week was our AGM, Suzanne, our Chair gives a personal update of the meeting….. I flew out of Dundee last Friday in FlyBe’s purple Dornier propeller airplane, looking forward to attending Children First Uganda’s AGM the next day. I can’t quite believe that this will be our 8th AGM. However, I did know that this one would be rather special, […]

Enriched education

Enriched education

‘A child who has never travelled, will always think his mother is the best cook’, is a common saying among the locals. Despite Uganda being endowed with lots of unique animals, plants, birds, Great Rift Valley and other geographical features, few citizens have taken a travel-tour around the country. Jolly Mercy Learning Center, a primary school under CALM Africa, has […]

A CALM Africa volunteer’s experience

Alice Brown from England is a volunteer visitor at CALM Africa in Uganda. In between class teaching on a break, she shares a few insights about herself and what brings her to visit. This is my first time in Uganda, though I have been in Kenya before. I wanted to visit somewhere else in Africa, and when I saw the […]

Loughborough University students return

Loughborough University students return

It has now become an annual activity that CALM Africa hosts students from Loughborough University on a field placement program. Earlier this year, in May, students again joined the team in Nangabo to volunteer as part of Loughborough Students Union Action during their Easter holiday. The visiting students work on one of the ongoing projects, however they are also interested […]

Using Radio to Advocate for Children’s Rights

Using Radio to Advocate for Children’s Rights

CALM Africa stands for Children’s Rights Advocacy and Lobby Mission. True to their name, CALM seeks opportunities to build awareness and using local radio has become a great platform for their campaigns. Muheebwa Hilary tells us what they’ve been up to lately… In an effort to expand the community outreach and child protection awareness programs, CALM Africa has started using […]

Improved sanitation, improved health & wellbeing

Improved sanitation, improved health & wellbeing

Good hygiene, keeping our children safe, through improved sanitation at JMLC. A young boy wearing a green T-shirt with a Jolly Mercy Learning Centre label on his front emerges from a corridor. He goes on to a water dispenser to wash his hands with soap before running back to class. The corridor he emerged from leads to and from the […]

Jolly Mercy Learning Centre Improves on National Examinations Performance

Jolly Mercy Learning Centre Improves on National Examinations Performance

We are in that season when we celebrate results from last year’s national Primary Leaving Examinations, as they are released by Uganda National Examinations Board. And at Jolly Mercy Learning Centre, the celebrations are still on and being used to motivate this year’s candidates. “We had had 12 pupils of JMLC sit for Primary Leaving Examinations last year. Of these, […]

Household care takers – bringing home life to disadvantaged children

Giving parental care to children is a step in nurturing tomorrow’s leaders. One elderly lady is on a mission to give disadvantaged children a second chance. On the sidelines of CALM Africa’s “Child Headed Household Care Takers” training at the organisation’s headquarters in Nangabo, Wakiso district, Jajja Nassali Noelene revealed her story: I am a resident of Masoli, in Kasangati, […]

Improving food security for families

Improving food security for families

Family sufficiency kits are a key part of the Community Outreach programme. These kits include seeds and other farming materials. In our latest blog post, Hillary gives an account of the impact of this in life in Uganda. It’s break time at Jolly Mercy Learning Centre and a group of pupils has converged on the wire fence, all throwing grass […]