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Having tools for the job transforms school art work

Earlier in the year we reported that : KidsHeartKids, a charity in the United States established by Mario Mouton, his wife and their 7 year old daughter Lylah, “had collected around $500 in quality drawing pencils, charcoals, pastels, and watercolor pencils for Isaac Newton High School’s Kateera, Masaka Campus.” UHST has recently been sent pictures …

Homosexuality issue in Uganda hits donations to Humanist Schools

The newly published 2013 Annual Report and Accounts of UHST shows a £20,000 fall in donations between 2012 and 2013 and Steve Hurd, the Chair of UHST, says there has been a further worrying decline since October 2013. While it is difficult to be sure of the reasons, the fall coincides with the prominent press …

Humanist school students perform well in national UCE examinations

This year’s Uganda Certificate in Education (UCE) O-level results were delayed by a month as the result of a virus attack on the Uganda National Examination Board (UNEB) central computers. A team of experts had to be brought in from South Africa to clean up the system and recover the marks of each student. It …