Support A Special Project

Building the New African Children’s Choir Primary School.

Quality education is rare in Uganda. Achieving a high school education can break the cycle of poverty for many children and their families.

The African Children’s Choir has achieved great success in its model for education, student scholarships, and Choir programs; so much so that the current school in Uganda is overflowing.

Originally built to house 90 children, Music for Life Primary School in Kampala now has approximately 150 students enrolled. Classroom space is tight, the dining hall is over-crowded and the playground is a small parking lot. Students in the lower grades have had to be moved to a satellite campus approximately 20 minutes from the main campus.

It’s time for a new, enhanced facility.

A 1.1 million USD capital campaign is currently underway to build a new African Children’s Choir™ education and training center. Music for Life has purchased 14 acres on the shores of Lake Victoria, near the city of Entebbe.

The new school will be built specifically to cater for the children’s needs; and the recipe for a quality education calls for more than textbooks and desks. Highlights of the new education and training center include:

Classrooms and Dormitories

to accommodate up to 400 children

Staff and Guest Housing

ensuring staff are accessible for the children

Choir Training Center

dedicated to the training of new Choirs

Assembly Hall & Amphitheater

meeting places for the student body, focal point for community events

Nursery School

offering early childhood education to the local community

Football (Soccer) Pitch

encouraging physical education, home to the school teams

Garden

enhancing science lessons and providing some of the school’s food needs

Landscaping

designed with open spaces for play and other areas for quiet reflection or study

The construction of the school facilities will be in three phases. Construction of Phase One in well underway.

The new school facility carries the potential to radically alter the future of hundreds of children each year. The children are able to live their lives full of hope, love and the knowledge that they can make a difference: in their homes, their communities, their countries and around the world.

The construction of the school facilities is well under way. The project has been carefully planned in such a way that completion of the first buildings will provide a functioning school facility and accommodation for an initial intake of 150 children.

How you can help

Our immediate target is to raise $300,000 to achieve this by early 2009.

You can give a one-off donation or make a Six Month Pledge, paid monthly, for the amount of your choice.

Raising an additional $700,000 will more than double the capacity of the school and accommodation and provide the Choir Training Centre and playing fields.