The recent academic holiday period at Suubi Secondary School saw our tailoring students given the opportunity to participate in a wonderful initiative; making reusable pads. Through studies carried out in Uganda it has been found female students miss up to eight days of study, each school term, because they are having their periods. This translates into 11% of the total learning days in a year. This valuable time missed in class is hard for the girls to make up and may account for why girls are dropping out of high school. With this in mind we are thrilled to see our reusable pad initiative expanding. This is sure to make the challenge of the girls monthly cycle far easier to cope with and lessen the number of absent days. Read more about this fabulous initiative!

The academic school holiday period at Suubi Secondary School has seen the place a hive of activity. The construction of the new classroom block is going ahead in leaps and bounds. It is wonderful to see the metalwork and woodwork students using their vocational classes to construct windows, doors, tables and chairs for the new structure, while the knitting and tailoring students have been busy making uniforms for the new 2018 students and learning how to make reusable pad. Check out all the details and lots of photos on the Suubi Secondary School Blog.

We are thrilled to let everyone know that the construction of the next classroom block at Suubi Secondary School, including library, science & computer laboratories and two additional classrooms, began on, our now traditional date of, Christmas eve. Very exciting! You will be amazed to see the progress that has been made already. Check it out all the information and lots of photos here.

For those of you who bought piglets for loved ones at Christmas time last year, you will be thrilled to learn that your gift is continuing to give at Christmas time 2017. The original piglets, distributed to Suubi Secondary School students, have now reach maturity and are beginning to producing their first litters. With this project working on a 'pay it forward' system we were excited to recently see the first piglets from these being passed on to the next round of students. Truly a gift that keeps giving! 

We were excited to have a team from Barclays Bank Masaka, conduct a financial literacy training for 30 Suubi Secondary School students and teachers today. The focus of the workshop was predominately on financial/money skills; looking at instilling the saving and investment culture in to our students. Read more and see photos from this workshop on the Suubi Secondary School Blog.

The culmination of Suubi Centre's Music, Dance and Drama Festival saw huge crowds gather at Suubi Secondary School to enjoy the performances. This provided the ideal opportunity for the newly acquired CD4 machine at Suubi Clinic, to be launched. An enormous thank you to Masad Alfayadh, a past TeamMED volunteer at Suubi Clinic, who was the driving force behind raising the money require to buy this machine. She inspired both her Happy Brain students and Manningham Rotary Club to fundraise for this vital piece of equipment - What a fabulous team effort; one that will have a long term positive impact on many, many peoples lives surrounding Suubi. Read more about this and see lots of fabulous photos from the finals day at our Suubi update blog.