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Amazima has an amazing Operations staff that keeps our campuses running! We need to purchase a pickup truck that will help them transport maintenance equipment, supplies, and Operations staff between our campuses and throughout the community. With growing campuses and operations staff, this is a vital need to help us care for and steward the people and property in our care.

We are in need of an additional 14-passenger van that will help transport staff and students on medical appointments, errands in town, and other vital services. With the number of students and staff growing on each campus these additional vehicles are vital.

Amazima owns three main buses that bring students to and from school from the surrounding community. These buses are also responsible for transporting students and staff to different off-campus events like field trips, sports games, and appointments. This project covers the cost of fuel for these essential buses.

With the post-Covid economy along with rising inflation on basic food items in Uganda, many of the families in our community cannot consistently put food on the table. This fund will allow us to provide temporary food support for families in particularly tough circumstances to ensure they can eat.

Amazima’s Community Engagement Team helps empower our community to provide for themselves and their families. Part of this empowerment comes through agriculture training. Our farming team needs supplies to develop and maintain a model farm where training can be conducted along with seeds and materials to assist families in starting their own farms to become self-sustainable.

Community Engagement identifies families that are the most vulnerable in our community. When needs arise, they work to help empower families however they can. In the coming year, Community Engagement will be conducting a House Improvement Program to help four families with poor shelters build safe houses.

We endeavor to provide all Amazima students with an excellent education. This is not limited to our curriculum, but includes developing skills in our students to be successful in all aspects of their lives. Our weekly life skills program will teach students important skills like cooking, farming, entrepreneurship, media and more as they progress through secondary school. This project will provide the materials necessary to equip our students through this program.

Our first class of students will be entering their upper secondary studies in 2023. As we prepare to offer our students the best possible education in upper secondary, we will need new textbooks and materials. This will ensure our teachers and students have all the textbooks they need to continue to receive an excellent education at The Amazima Secondary School.

Sports provide a great opportunity for our students to stay active, develop important character traits, and to be discipled in a unique context. With a growing student body, we need new sports equipment and uniforms to account for more athletes and the regular wear and tear of sports gear.

In 2022, Amazima had 6 different sports teams compete at the National level. These competitions are a great way for our student athletes to be exposed to some of the best competition in the country, and a great opportunity for them to witness to other students through the way they play and behave. This project will help cover the expenses of travel and lodging for our sports teams as they compete at the highest level.

With a growing student body at our Secondary School, we need additional lab space to accommodate all of our students in their many science subjects. A new science lab will not only increase student learning through hands-on experiments, it will create more unique opportunities for discipleship and relationship building between students and their teachers. This project will cover the cost of construction of a new lab along with the equipment needed across our science classes.

Keeping accurate records of attendance, grades, and discipline is essential for any school. At the Amazima Secondary School, we use a program called PowerSchool to track all student records. This allows administration, teacher, students, and families to stay connected to each student’s progress. This project covers the yearly cost of PowerSchool at our secondary school.

It is so important for primary students to exercise and let their energy out during the school day. This will allow us to purchase more supplies for PE and sports at our primary school.

At the Amazima Primary School, we want our library to be a place where students can learn about people, places, and things and develop a love of reading. Help provide more books and supplies to ensure our library has everything it needs to best serve our students.

Reliable internet is essential for our administration team to accomplish all tasks required of them. This will equip our new administration building with the equipment needed for fast, reliable internet access.

An organization is only as good as its staff. At Amazima, we regularly invest in our amazing staff to ensure they are well-equipped to help us accomplish our mission. Our Staff Life Team is composed of pastors and spiritual leaders who provide encouragement and discipleship to all staff members as they serve with Amazima. This project will cover the cost of these pastors on our staff.

Water is vital to campus life. From cooking and cleaning, to showers and irrigation. We need to purchase water throughout the year to supplement what God gives us from the heavens. Your gift will supply water for an entire year to our secondary and primary schools.

Much of the food preparation on our two campuses is performed with the assistance of firewood in generating the heat we need to cook. Three meals a day, feeding over 700 students requires a lot of wood! In 2023 we will begin using propane gas for some of our cooking, but for now, firewood is essential.

We built our classrooms, homes, and other facilities with the expectation they will last 50+ years. To keep them looking new and in outstanding condition, we continually need to perform maintenance. Your gift will provide the funding we need to complete the building maintenance on both of our campuses for an entire year.

Traveling the roads to and around Jinja can be a bone-jolting experience. If the roads are hard on your body, just imagine the impact they have on our fleet of buses, vans, cars, and motorcycles. Maintenance (and repair!) are key. Your gift will fund vehicle maintenance for our school vehicles for an entire year.

Our mentors and social workers travel regularly in the region around Jinja, working with the families of our students. Often the “road” to the homes is little more than a dirt path. Most of these visits are conducted by foot, bicycles, or more often, motorcycles and sometimes cars. Your gift will keep these critical vehicles in good, working condition all year long.

With the number of students on the rise we are in need of additional, adjacent land for the primary school campus, this will enable us to grow as necessary in the future.

The roundabout of The Amazima Secondary School is a focal point of our campus. The students walk past it everyday to get to the kitchen, and they enjoy studying under the shade of the fig tree planted in the center. Due to the construction on campus and heavy rains, our drainage system within the roundabout needs updating. This will allow us to redirect the water away from the roadway and keep the center green space free from flooding.

Improvements to the asphalt on the secondary campus is crucial for the upkeep of the main campus road. We will be able to re-pave and fix potholes that will make driving safer and easier on our vehicles.

Dorm Collection and recycling of rainwater is so important in Uganda. This would allow us to have a rainwater collection system for all 28 dorms on our Secondary School Campus enabling us to reuse rainwater for all of our watering needs during the dry seasons.