Back ground
God’s Hands Daycare and Nursery school (GHDNS) is a newly starting educational development project(2015 Jan 27th) initiated by Harriet and Robert Talugende to directly support the rural people, mostly the young stars in building a strong education foundation for them. It is located in Musita village along Jinja –Tororo Highway. The school has a total enrolment of 40 children; 16 boys and 24 girls and 3 teachers.
Robert and Harriet married together in church in April 30th of 2011 and Harriet was teaching in an International school mainly handling the infant classes for a period of seven years, while Robert working for the rural poor. We saw the great need and gaps in the education foundation stage of the children in the rural villages. Mostly the handwriting and spoken English children learn and speak varies from where they went to school and who taught them. With the practical experience Harriet attained while at Montessori International School, we decided to incorporate the educational project among other support activities we offer to the community. We started clearing the bush and the site, asked for the trees from the community members and they responded happily gave us the poles, we cut them and carried them on site.
Due to the rain season which starts in March, we thought through and took a loan of 600,000 UGX and bought the 32 iron sheets for the roof plus roofing nails. This gave the school a better look from the papyrus mat roofing; we thank God and believe he will enable us to pay back the loan before the given period 15th June 2015.
The Classes
These have been divided into 3 main classes; Baby class, Kindergarten (Middle) class and Top class. Top: 5 children
Middle: 16 children
Baby: 19 children
The activities done include; tracing, painting, pronouncing letter sounds, and saying good English language accent, shading, learning numbers, counting, learning days of the week and months in the year, singing and social play games.
During the school days, children take their morning Porridge served at 10:00am, before going for their play time break. The porridge is mixed with milk and sugar and they enjoy it.
