Education

Back in 2016, the nearest school was a 30-minute walk from our first home. The need for local education led us to start our own school at our home.
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Raising Leaders of Significance

Today, Esuubi Foundation proudly runs two schools, both named after our founder Mrs. Happy’s grandmother, Happeria.

Happeria International School is based at our main center in Kyabirwa, next to our boarding home. Here, we teach the international Cambridge curriculum — offering high-quality education to both our boarding children and paying students.

With the motto “Raising Leaders of Significance”, we focus on developing well-rounded students. We aim to equip them with knowledge, values, leadership skills, and compassion for the world around them, encouraging them to take initiative and make them able to contribute positively to society.

Right now, around 30 students ranging from (primary to secondary/year 1 to year 13) follow our curriculum, but as our boarding section is full we are limited in reaching our maximum capacity. To welcome and support more students, we are planning to build a new and bigger girls’ dormitory.

Happeria Secondary School is a 100% free community school located in the village of Kibibi, just 15 kilometers from our main center. We are excited to welcome our first students next month.

As there is no secondary school within the area, we recognized the need and decided to open Happeria Secondary School, offering the Ugandan national curriculum. Right now, the school is in its early stages — but our dream is to grow and eventually reach our full capacity of 90 students from the local community.

By giving the youth of Kibibi a place to study, connect, and learn together, we aim to plant seeds of hope and guide them toward a brighter future.

Over time, we hope to establish a farm on the school grounds. This will help us provide food for the school and open the door to farming and agricultural projects – creating jobs and opportunities, especially for local women.

The Esuubi Foundation school grew to include 8 different grades complete with concrete floors, benches for every student, toilets and bathing area, a kitchen that provided morning tea and lunch, a nurses station and a boarding section and most importantly an opportunity for an education and then COVID hit forcing the closure of all schools nationwide in the first half of 2020.

We chose to stop renting the building used as a school and home schooled the children who boarded with us whilst we provided study for home packs for the children of the village who attended our school as ‘walk-in’s’ from the village.

The forced closure of the school thanks to COVID was a blessing in disguise as it bought forward our dream of building our own school on our land. Thanks to generous donations construction of our purpose built school started was completed before the 2021 school year started.