Nazarene Kamuzinda Vocational High School   is a Day and Residential school offering both Ordinary and Advanced levels taking three categories of subjects namely: Science, Arts and Business.

The school was founded in 1994 by Mr.  & Mrs. Molly Wasswa and Paul M Wasswa (for Molly and Paul Child Care Foundation) who donated their land that was originally their farm. The first classes were in the Mission House with borrowed desks from the primary school. More support also comes from volunteers and visitors to the school. Although the school is registered by the Ministry of Education, Nazarene still lacks the majority of the basic requirements for a vocational /business high school.

Mrs. Annette Kayiggwa Kunya is the current Principal of the high school for now 4 years. She holds a Bachelor of Science and A Masters Degree in Public Health. She has been at Nazarene for the past 12 years.  She is also an Old Girl of Molly and Paul schools. She was the leader of the Southern children’s choir to the UK in 2011. It is the only vocational/community high school in the whole of Kyannamukaaka Sub-county in Masaka District.

Nazarene admits students from our own Molly and Paul Primary schools and the neighboring primary schools in the area plus from other schools in the country. The students are usually aged from 13 years.
The school now is being largely sponsored by the Pearl of Africa Child Care Ltd charity of UK since 2008. Funds are usually raised by the charity when the Pearl of Africa Children’s choir selected from all Molly and Paul schools visits UK every year. A subsidized school fee is paid by those that can afford while orphaned and disadvantaged students are supported with bursaries.

The school is located and found at Kamuzinda village in the children’s village known as The Pearl of Africa Children’s Village on Kyannamukaaka road 3 miles from Bukunda Trading Center which is 12 miles from Masaka Town along Kyotera/Rakai Road. The school also couldn’t provide lunch to the students except those who could afford to pay some money for lunch but special thanks goes to the dedicated volunteers who sponsored the porridge for all the students. The school has a Parents Teacher’s Association (PTA), (This is a local voluntary organization of Parents and teachers that is intended to promote closer relations and improve the school). It is fully active in the school activities.

All the schools accounts are carefully kept after a thorough scrutiny by a dedicated English volunteer and books of accounts are audited every year by an internationally recognized Accounting and Audit Firm.

The school can be contacted at:
Nazarene Vocational High School
P.O. Box 552
Masaka
Uganda

Email: nazarene _voc_high@pearlofafrica.org.uk,     ngomolly@mollyandpaul.org
Mob Tel: +256703063882 , +256702408311, +256772408311
Website: www.mollyandpaul.org                                          

ACHIEVEMENTS AND COMPLETED PROJECTS

The year 2011 is a year of ‘divine opportunities ‘, so we were told, as the word for us from the Lord at the church i go to in Masaka Uganda.
Last year at Nazarene Voc High school we applied for Advanced level examination centre and we were told to re-apply this year for we were behind in facility availability. We therefore started a building we call a resource centre. First it had three rooms. These would be some classes for the A level students and an A level science lab.

We used some of the photos for the building on tour in the UK . This year, Mr and Mrs Smith Marylyn in Morpeth, instead of having presents for their birth days, had money collected for the building at Nazarene. Together with them seeing their  friends, they sent us £1500. This helped us roof this building. The actual money sent to us was more than what i had told them. This encouraged us to put up a the other part of this building with money  (700,000 Ugandan shillings given to us by friends from Ireland) making it now a 7 room building rather than a three room building. The money from Morpeth then helped to roof the whole building.

Our next step is plastering this building and painting it. This we plan to do in the second term of this school year. Third term we are looking at putting the floor, windows and doors.
To everyone who has helped us come to this level and those helping us attain the next level, we are grateful.
We are targeting to reapply for an advanced level examination centre next year. If this building is complete. This will encourage more of our students who have finished Ordinary level to move on to advanced level. The numbers are currently low because they will have to go to other schools to do exams and they cannot meet the requirements financially in these schools.

Because 10% of the students go on to A level and currently none has gone to university for the last two years, the school is going to emphasize vocational subjects. The courses to begin with are;

• Textiles
• Food technology
• Wood and metal works
• Secretarial studies
• Information Technology

Health Education too are going to be merged in, to give students variety and also cater for students who are interested in science related courses not forgetting also meeting the community’s health needs. Courses to consider are;

• Child health and development.
• Reproductive health
• HIV, Malaria and tropical diseases
• Nutrition
• First aid

The best news ever is;

• The Swan family have already put about £500 for sewing machine and carried materials for the textile class to start off
• The children from Richard Lander school in Truro, going to the children’s village in Kamuzinda on 7th July are carrying stoves to help the cookery part to start too.
• Their DT teachers are also going to teach the boys at Nazarene Voc high to make a bench and a table. If this is not wood work kicking off........, what do you think?

We could not make it this far on our own. To all that have stood with us, thank you
The head teacher of Nazarene Voc High school is on a teacher exchange programme in Truro UK.
I am here on a teacher exchange programme with the TLC (Truro Roseland Community). I have been to;

• Penair science collage. (three weeks)
• The roseland (1 week)
• Truro collage (1week)
• And currently at Richard Lander technical college.

I have also been to some schools for a day or two like;

• Pencalenick
• Launceston college
• May go to about three next week.

I spent half term at Kidderminster with Jaaja Kate.
I flew to Morpeth to attend Rebbacca and Graham ‘s wedding. These not only have they supported greatly the building at Nazarene, but also great supporters and friends of the Pearl of Africa Children’s choir.
The things I have seen here especially in school have totally transformed me and i do not think my teaching and the teaching at Nazarene Voc High school will ever stay the same.
What I am taking back with me cannot be measured nor carried in bags, no need to worry about baggage allowance, that is ideas about;

• Making lessons more child centred, having interactivity (use of power points, videos, more practicals, use of starters and plenary, show me boards, laminated students activity sheets this list cannot end now.
• Assessment for learning (levels and students setting their targets, result assessment, etc)
• Special needs education (especially for the mild students- with learning difficulties already in the main streams going un noticed and thus un attended too).
• Vocational courses
• Laboratory techniques.

Ugandan education system -get ready, for this change is contagious

Students at Pencalenick school hand me ( Kaigwa Annet – Head at Nazarene) a cheque of £140 to establish the food tech unit. They washed cars and sold salad to raise money.
Webale nyo Thank you

Special thanks go to;

• Head teachers in the TRLC
• Members of staff in those schools
• Laboratory technicians
• Head of science and DT
• All students in all mentioned schools
• Friends of  Pearl of Africa children choir, charity, and Molly and Paul child care foundation who hosted me for weekends and half term taking me around UK
• Home group in Devoran, Truro cathedral and Kea church-Truro. Thank you for showing me the love of Jesus.

Special thanks to the Mulcahy family for making me one of their own and fully supporting in everything.

And to little Max who has given up his room for two and half months for me to use
Webale nyoo

If this is not a year of divine opportunities, tell me what it is
Long live       Nazarene Voc High School