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charitable organization, and it is now fully responsible for the funding and administration of
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Community School began with about 150 students in four classes (Kindergarten to Primary 3). The next year a nursery class and Primary 4 class were added. In 1995 Primary 5 was added and the secondary school began with Senior 1. The 1996 school year ended with about 220 students
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program which now has those children who once lived on site integrated back into village homes in the surrounding areas. Although many are still being sponsored, they are being cared for in family homes by relatives or neighbors. The focus of the
Children’s Centre has therefore shifted from working
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program is also in place now, offering students a choice in either tailoring, baking or carpentry. These vocational students are young men and women who may not have had opportunity to attend academic classes or who are more suited to vocational work, and who need a practical trade to help support
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Mission to Uganda, which developed at this time, still feels a close kinship to their Canadian friends from Glad Tidings in Vancouver. In 1989 they approached Glad Tidings Church to participate with them in a program to help children whose parents had died of
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In 1993 PAOS agreed to send two teachers, Arleen
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Children’s Centre has also worked closely with the local Uganda government officials. In their concern for children to learn to cope with normal life in the village settings and to learn local languages and customs, they encouraged a
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Nursery, Kindergarten, Primary 1 to 6, and Senior 1 and 2. By 1998 the school program extended to a full “ordinary level” secondary program and our first students graduated with secondary school certificates. A
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themselves and their families as soon as possible. As of year end 2008, the student population is approximately 850 students including the
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