I saw the potential and possibilities.  I looked around the area and could see there were acres of government land that was due to be developed.  The thought of all this green space becoming a place of industry on one hand was horrifying, on the other I could envisage commerece, jobs, infrastructure – electricity and  mains water coming into the village – a better future for all.

I visualised a road running through the area – and it’s now under construction, just a short distance away from us.  A fast, interstate road which will link the Airport at Entebbe to Kenya.

I kept all these things in my heart and in 2015, I bought the land in the village where the little school was – to secure that area for the people of the village and wider community.

Over the next year, I bought more land – piece by piece using my redundancy money, savings and money that I’d invested for my future.  But I felt my future was very much connected to the future prosperity and wellbeing of this community.

We built a better, but temporary iron sheet school..

Now we have a permanent building incorporating nursery school, primary school, teachers houses, toilet blocks and separate boarding for boys and girls.