Greetings to you all! We are praying for a blessed beginning of your new year. God is good and we are excited to start a new year here in Uganda. Thank you all for your part in making these things possible. I am visiting and it fills my heart to see God’s work in the lives of so many children and families. Some have accepted Jesus into their hearts since I last saw them. They are growing in their faith and are almost different children from when I last saw them.
Students around the country are just receiving the results of their national exams to know what schools they will have the opportunity to attend. Many will enroll and begin next week and it will be a mad rush to get them packed up and ready as each school has its own requirements of books, supplies and boarding needs. We are pleased that all but one, who started late in the year, of our Genesis Primary graduates received top scores and will qualify for quality high schools. We are still awaiting our high school graduate results and pray that their scores will qualify them for the areas of study that will allow them to select the major that they desire.
Primary schools, including our Genesis, will begin on February 6. Teachers have returned to prepare their classrooms to welcome their students. We are so thankful for the good group of Christian teachers we are privileged to have working with us. Some have been with us since we first opened the school and some of our newer ones are graduates of our sponsorship program.
All our teachers hold, at least, a level III teaching certificate. However, the Uganda Department of Education has recently required them to complete a full bachelor’s degree. A good number of our teachers are scrambling to accomplish this. It will require them to attend six 2-week blocks of classes during school breaks over the next 2 years. They are also scrambling to pay for these classes. Meet two of our teachers that will be returning for their continuing education.
