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2017 Dedication of Teacher Housing
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Teacher Housing Update 2016
Construction of Teacher housing at JPSS – 2016 Update! We are so grateful to everyone who helped raise the necessary funds for the teacher housing at JPSS during the Brick-by-Brick Campaign. Because of your generosity, construction has begun and great progress is being made. We could never do it without you! We expect the housing to be completed by the end of February 2017…just in time for the beginning of the school term! As you will see from the photos, construction in this part of the world is not easy. Much of the work is done manually and depends a lot on the weather as well. When the rain comes,…
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Let There Be Light!
We are so very excited to announce that solar panels have been installed and there is now power to the Daryl D Wittich Science and Learning Center! Thanks to Tim Blackwell and his great team at One World Sustainable, the students will now be able to use the classrooms during the darker hours and there is power for the soon-to-be-purchased computers in the Computer Center. The solar system is able to power the entire Science Center and has a battery backup system that allows power to be stored for those rainy days. Thank you to all our donors who helped make this a reality! …
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Solar Panels for JPSS
TIM BLACKWELL & ONEWORLD SUSTAINABLE The three solar panels, along with a computer, were donated and installed by Tim Blackwell and his company, OneWorld Sustainable, with the help of his partner in Kenya, Henry Watitwa and his company, Bright Home Solar Energy, who donated the installation. This was at Tim and Henry’s personal and John Paul School is extremely grateful for their very generous donation and we look forward to doing business with them in the near future. Thank You, Tim and Henry!!
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Dedication of New Science Center
Dedication of the new Science Center The new Daryl D. Wittich Science and Learning Center is Dedicated Paul and I recently returned from our annual visit to John Paul Secondary School and we are very happy to share the news that construction of the Science and Learning Center is now complete!! Msgr. Paul Buyela, Vicar General and Education Secretary of the Archdiocese of Tororo dedicated the building on November 6, 2012 and when the ribbon was cut by Msgr. Buyela, Nancy Berrigan and Blair Berrigan the building officially became known as the “Daryl D. WittichScience and Learning Center”. Daryl was a very dear friend of ours, whose first career was…
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Objectives 2010
The year 2010 will present a number of challenges and hopefully a major milestone in the development of John Paul Secondary School. The main objective for the year will be to complete the steps necessary for the school to become officially recognized and registered by the Ugandan Department of Education. Currently students can receive their education at John Paul School but when it comes time for them to sit for their final exams they must do so at a different school, one which is registered. To be registered we must meet a whole laundry list of requirements to ensure the school meets national standards. Many are organizational such as the…
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School Dedication
The day we dedicated John Paul Secondary School started early. By 8AM we had showered, primped, eaten and were on the road headed to Chelekura. Bishop Odongo, his driver, Nancy and I led the way in the bishop’s SUV while our friends Jim and Linda with Sister Salome and their driver followed in another. There was a high level of anticipation as we spent the next hour driving into the deepest, darkest, heart of Africa. Then suddenly we were there. As the vehicles came to a stop there was a rush of people towards us and a building crescendo as the women started waving their arms and “u-ul-lu-ing”. Bishop Odongo…
