Family Livelihood Enhancement project

Having observed high school-dropout rates in different communities around Jinja rural communities , I embarked on a campaign to bring these children back into education, and was delighted that more than 100 returned to school. However, after a short time, many continued once again to drop out. Together with some community members, we visited homes to find out the challenges that led to this. It was here that many parents expressed poverty as the main cause preventing their children from studying. With household incomes incredibly low, the need to priorities family welfare rose above investing in school fees.

Sure that there must be a solution, it was then that I sat down with my two colleagues and together designed the School Community Banks program which would encourage parents, teachers and local women to form groups, develop business skills and gain access to small loans to enable them start their own businesses.

The program design also aimed to bring parents closer to schools and understand further the importance of education by facilitating weekly parent-teacher interaction, improving their engagement in their children's schooling through play.

We decided to name our organization Game connect , which means " play can link up the gaps", to give hope and belief to those we set up to serve.