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Education

Education opens doors that last forever and at Vijana Heavens Foundation, we are committed to breaking barriers that hinder children and youth in slums from accessing it and create bright futures.

Education

Education opens doors that last forever and at Vijana Heavens Foundation, we are committed to breaking barriers that hinder children and youth in slums from accessing it and create bright futures.

The Challenge

Education is a fundamental right, yet many children in Kampala’s slum communities lack access to quality education due to poverty, lack of school supplies, and absence of early learning opportunities. Children born in poverty are 87% more likely to drop out of school compared to their well-off peers. Without proper intervention, these children risk missing the chance to unlock their full potential and break free from the cycle of poverty.

How We Help

At Vijana Heavens Foundation, we believe quality education is the primary means of breaking the cycle of generational poverty. That’s why we offer comprehensive education programs that support children at-risk to thrive. These include;

Early Childhood Education

This program is designed to equip out of school children aged 3-10 with basic foundational skills in reading, writing and counting as we mobilize support to send them to a real school.

School supplies & Tuition Support

We provide basic school supplies and tuition support to children from poverty-stricken families so that they can arrive on their first day of class prepared to learn and feeling like their most confident selves.

Literacy Development

Through our community library, we focus on bolstering literacy skills and fostering a love for learning among children and young people in slums.

Child Sponsorship

We work to establish a strong personal connection between children in poverty and dedicated sponsors who can help to provide them access with to essential life resources that can make an enormous difference in a child’s life.

Sheilah Nakatte

programs manager

Sheilah is a servant leader who is passionate about creating a world where every child regardless of his/her background has equal access to quality education. Growing up in desperate poverty, Sheilah had limited access to education, even though her single mother tried to find some piece of work of selling vegetables on the roadside, her monthly income couldn’t stretch enough to provide all the needs of her six poor children including paying their school fees on time. When Sheilah got a chance to step in class, she put all her effort to learning and be the best in her class and was able to get a full bursary as the best student every term which reduced on the risk of being sent back home for school fees which increased her chances of having a brighter future through education. After successfully completing high school, Sheilah decided to dedicate her time to help children struggling in their studies to catch up in math and literacy.