In April, Nick & I are going to Kumi, Uganda with Mission Direct, for 2 weeks to help build teachers accommodation for the local primary school. As one of the poorest districts in one of the poorest countries in the world, where most people earn income through labouring or subsistence farming, poverty is never far away. Mission Direct have worked with partners here for many years, supporting the need for additional classrooms and further educational facilities to support the growing class sizes. Education is the key to breaking poverty and we’re working to help children here have access to full-time education.

Please consider supporting these children who have so little and enable them to take a step out of poverty. All money raised through this page will go straight to the project, paying for local labour, materials and equipment.

This year 2025 sees Mission Direct move to a new project at Wiggins Primary School.This is a Government Primary School near to Kumi Centre but serving a mainly rural community to the South of Kumi. It has just over one thousand students. The school has twenty teachers but only thirteen homes, some of which are in a very dilapidated condition. This means that six classrooms are being used to house teachers. The consequence of this is that some of the students are being taught in dilapidated classrooms from 1940’s, in which lessons are disrupted by poor weather. Our project is to build eight new teachers’ homes over three years and if possible, to undertake some repairs and refurbishment to improve the condition for the other homes. This will release six classrooms back for teaching, enabling the school to stream each year group and reduce class sizes.

Ensuring teachers are well housed means they are available without the worry of coping with inadequate housing.