Visiting Toro High School

Toro High School is a private school about 5 hours from Kampala City in Uganda. This school is specifically for orphans who would otherwise not be able to attend school or even have a place to live besides the streets. Idah and Henry own this school as a project of Parent Concern. This is only one of their many amazing contributions to Africa. The school offers completely free tuition and school supplies. Most children also live at the school where they receive meals and clothing. Unfortunately because of the high number of orphans who need to live at the school, the budget is getting really tight and the living quarters are getting more and more cramped! They are trying to raise money to build more housing so hopefully that will happen soon!

6 laptops were donated to the school for the teachers and children! They were very excited! However notice that the cord from the computer doesn’t have an outlet to connect to. They are working on getting electricity run to this room.

The students were so happy to see us and they greeted us with a wonderful performance. They even pulled us up to dance with them and it was so fun! We toured the school and learned about the future projects that are being planned. Unfortunately, we noticed quite a few sick girls confined to their beds. Because the living quarters are becoming so packed, it is easy for students to get sick. Also, not every student has a mosquito net and some girls even have HIV. It is so expensive to get medicine for each student and we were shocked and saddened to hear that a young girl died in the hospital while we were visiting.

To conclude our visit we played a tough game of soccer! It was so fun! I found the game slightly unfair seeing that these kids play soccer almost every day and I haven’t played in years!!! But we actually tied the game thanks to JJ!!







Jerome!!!