A Major Aid Programme to Uganda
Two Staffordshire Schools are Working Together to Extend the Hand of Friendship Across the Seas
Endon High School and Painsley Catholic High School are working together to provide, a Ugandan school with a very large quantity of computers. With the help and support of hauliers, Pickfords ‘The Careful Movers’, the computers will be transported across the ocean to Maranatha Christian School in Kampala.
Sserunjogi Patrick, Headmaster
at the school is visiting the UK on a fund raising trip. He said, “Marantha Christian school has 650 pupils.
We have one computer, which is in the school office. Our smallest class is 56
pupils. Our largest is 88 pupils. We sit three at a desk. Pupils in the UK are
blessed with their schools. This aid is a miracle for my school”
Peter Alderman, Head of Design
and Technology at Endon High School said, “This major shipment of will triple
the number of computers in schools in Uganda.” Sheila Roscoe, Head of
Information Technology at Endon High School said, “We had a good day on
Wednesday, we helped a lot of people”
Peter Challinor, ICT Manager at
Painsley Catholic High School said, “Redundant computer equipment from our
schools is state of the art in Uganda. We hope to sustain this aid programme
with equipment being shipped every 4 years.”
Sserunjogi Patrick, Headmaster
of Marantha Christian School said, after a period of shock at the offer of aid
“This is help beyond my wildest dreams”
Pickfords ‘The Careful
Movers’ will collect all the equipment, pack the computers and transport them
to Heathrow Airport to send them on their way to Africa.
John Wilson, Move Consultant at
Pickfords Moving and Storage Centre, Manchester pointed out that Pickfords were
only too pleased to be involved in such a worthwhile and relevant cause, and it
is a pleasure to see schools and their pupils working hard to aid people in
other parts of the world.
The
schools are in the throes of organising technical support for the equipment.
Peter Challinor, “This sort of initiative is dependant upon trained support
and it would be sensible to send technicians out to set up and train the school
staff. Funding is always a problem and we would be very grateful for
any help in this area. We would
obviously like to connect the computers up together into a network.
Painsley has a redundant file server that could be used by Marantha
Christian School but we need cabling and help to set the system up. I see
this as a sustainable project which could with the involvement of other schools
be extended still further.”
To offer any help please contact
Peter Challinor: ICT Manager, Painsley Catholic High School, Cheadle, Phone: 01538 483944