NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL

Organization Description: 

Notre Dame High School is located 85 miles from Kampala City in the Central Region of Uganda on Bukakata Road - Mukungwe Sub-county Kirinda Village Masaka District.

It was founded by a group of voluntary educationists and teachers who felt pity of the disadvantaged and orphaned children on streets and in very poor homes and those whose parents died of AIDS. The school is founded on Christian faith pillars and is both secondary and vocational. The school is expected to accommodate 550 pupils both females and males when completed.The school enrolls children from all walks of life regardless of tribe,political beliefs,creed or religion.

NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL MISSION STATEMENT,

RAISING THE NEXT GENERATION OF UGANDANS BY PURSUING EXCELLENCE IN ACADEMIC AND PRACTICAL SKILLS INTEGRITY IN CONDUCT AND MORAL VALUES, SO THAT EACH CHILD WILL BECOME A REPONSIBLE AND PRODUCTIVE CITIZEN OF THE NATION.

OBJECTIVES:
1-To absorb children from absolute poor families who can't afford secondary or vocational training fees.
2-To educate and train helpless orphaned children in Mpigi and Masaka and Rakai Districts and make them useful world citizens.
3- To cater, train and educate the disadvantaged girls (drop-outs due to early pregnancies or lack of school fees or care).
4- To cater for basic health and nutrition of the pupils on board.
5- To research into problems that affect adolescence learning especially girl child.

SCHOOL DISCIPLINE TRAINING STATEMENT:

We endeavor to train our students/pupils to become good leaders by provision of Conducive environment to students/pupils pursuing excellence in academic and practical skills and in which the rights and needs of pupils/students are met and protected.
Here:
-The children learn and teachers teach.
-Children make choices and take the responsibility to experience the consequences of these choices in order to build moral character.
- We deliver the services on Biblical perspective. Proverbs 22:6 says teach your children to choose the right path, and when they are older they remain upon it.

BASICS IN INSTILLING DISCIPINE AT NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL:
We train the hearts of the children and create a moral bank in the heart of the children we care for, so that they know how to govern themselves from within rather than from outside.
- We train the minds of the children by providing formal education.
- We train the body of the child we care for by promotion of extra curricula activities (sports, music, creative arts, crafts, etc.)

Location: 
P.O.BOX 226 MASAKA
MASAKA, 256
Uganda
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Mission Statement: 

NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL MISSION STATEMENT,

RAISING THE NEXT GENERATION OF UGANDANS BY PURSUING EXCELLENCE IN ACADEMIC AND PRACTICAL SKILLS INTEGRITY IN CONDUCT AND MORAL VALUES, SO THAT EACH CHILD WILL BECOME A REPONSIBLE AND PRODUCTIVE CITIZEN OF THE NATION.

Do You Require Formal Orientation Training for Volunteers?: 
Yes
Are more than one-third of the participants in your organization/programs low income (below 150% of the poverty level)?: 
Yes
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