Secondary Education - The Need

An important part of our mission is to ensure that each of our students go on to secondary school. We want to provide them with the same basic education and support we would provide our own children. A strong education is our greatest hope for eliminating extreme poverty and for our students to begin envisioning a life beyond the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

A long term and holistic approach.

The Nyaka Aids Orphans Project provides placement, tuition, uniforms, and school expenses for all of our students' secondary education. In addition, we continue to oversee our children’s development, including counseling and medical care.

Economics, cultural bias, and gender discrimination often exclude girls from educational opportunities. When girls learn, their families, communities and societies all benefit. Despite these known benefits, girls are less likely than boys to attend school, and are more likely to drop out when transitioning from primary to secondary school. 56% of our students are girls.

Without a secondary school education, our girls will more than likely marry while very young, run away to the city to get a low wage job, or become sex workers. Our boys will also end up working low paying jobs in the village or city and never escape the cycle of poverty.

Due to the high graduation rate of Nyaka and Kutamba School students, the need is now greater than ever for a secondary school in our area. Each year we will have another class of students that qualify for secondary school. Currently, our graduates are attending Ishaka Adventist College and St. Gerard's Secondary School on scholarships from Nyaka.

Click to make a donation that will help provide a secondary school education for the orphans of Nyaka.  Help us break the cycle of poverty.