Our Bambejja Child Support Project has seen a recent change with all 122 girls now being sponsored to attend schools in the local community. Our younger girls come to the centre for lunch and stay for afternoon activities which give extra educational support as well as help the children learn life skills (self-esteem, listening skills, how to treat other people etc), play games and receive some Christian teaching.

This is a picture of our 'circle time' activity - common in UK schools but very uncommon here. Children have to learn to sit still and quietly and listen to each other as each child expresses herself when she is holding the toy giraffe (so culturally appropriate!) It has worked really well as a way to develop girls' confidence, to help them learn to express themselves and to talk about things which affect them. The girl in the middle also gets full marks for sitting nicely!

Whereas most Ugandan teachers struggle to teach a class of 100 children (alone) we have the benefit of having small classes so the girls can really benefit from a high level of interaction. It is so exciting to see them enjoying learning and making great progress and these are all girls who, if it wasn't for Oasis Uganda, would not be going to school at all.