Clarissa overcame significant financial hardships throughout her education, often lacking basic necessities and walking long distances to school without food or study materials. With support from the organization Education Matters and her unwavering determination, she successfully completed her studies in Hotel Management, unlocking new career opportunities in the tourism industry.

Hanne was in Uganda in the summer of 2022 and supported us from there. Together with Vicky and Nadina she organized, among other things, a two-week summer camp. Here she writes about her experiences.

Nabakka tells her story. Starting with the birth in Kampala, 2010 the first contact with Mark and the Divine Mission until the Bachelor of Arts in Education at Kampala University.

My name is Hassan Abdallah, I am from a polygamist family with eight children. My mom died when I was in standard five. Since then we stayed with my stepmother till I finished standard seven as completing primary level education.

The course started in 2018 with the aim to teach the older children in the Education Matters e.V. programmes the professional and efficient use of computers. In Uganda, computer education has recently become compulsory in secondary schools. Unfortunately, most schools cannot afford to buy enough equipment for their students. Consequently, a lot is thaught in theory, but the students have no opportunity to put what they have learned into practice on the computer.

The local school, Gymnasium Großburgwedel, that the majority of the active education matters members went to, held a charity run. The students chose three nonprofit organisations – one of which was educations matters. You can find a link to the (german) newspaper article below.

Vincent Muwonge joined Education Matters 7 years ago, when he was in the fifth grade of primary school at the Divine Mission Junior School. He was taken into the sponsorship program of our organization, as he is an orphan child and the people he lived with couldn’t afford his school fees anymore. Since then, Education Matters took over his school fees at the Divine Mission Junior School.

After the successful first exchange trip between the Tanzanian orphanage "Watoto wetu Tanzania" and the Ugandan school "Divine Mission Junior School" in Dar es Salaam in 2012, it was no question that the cooperation had to be continued. From 6/30/13 to 7/7/13 the second exchange took place - this time students from Tanzania visited Kampala.