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New Covenant Christian School's project in Nangala, a semi-remote mountain village, comes with its fair share of challenges. One such challenge is the expensive transportation cost of construction materials. The remote location of the village makes it difficult and costly to bring in the required building materials, thus adding to the already tight budget for the project. Another challenge that the school must address is providing room and board for its teachers. As the village is situated in a remote area, it is difficult to find accommodation and food for the teachers. This presents a significant challenge for the school, which is committed to providing its teachers with comfortable and adequate living conditions to enable them to focus on their teaching responsibilities. Additionally, many parents in the village cannot afford to pay for tuition or uniforms for their children.

A man who lives in the village of Nangala came to the administrator of New Covenant Christian School in January of 2023. The man had a very sad story of how his wife had left him with their young daughter and at the same time, he became the guardian of his two nieces who are about the same age as his daughter. This man did not have enough money to put all three girls into New Covenant Christian School and he didn’t want to send just one of them without the others. Hope 4 The Children was able to make this need known to a lady who lives in Frankfurt, Michigan, and she was very happy to support the three girls. She donated $150.00 to Hope 4 The Children, which was enough to fund the tuition as well as uniforms for each of the girls for the whole year. It is amazing how so little makes such a big difference in the lives of the people in Nangala.

This school has been more than just school, Besides providing quality education to our children, we have benefited as the community by receiving relief food during Covid 19, and Feeding the elderly in the community which other religions have never done before.

I am Anita  Natumanya. I came to NCCS in 2015. I am a strong lady who dreams big and I'm working for my dreams. I have a lovely son who is named Esau.  He lives with my parents and brothers and sisters. part of my salary helps to support them.

When the Covid-19 pandemic hit Uganda in 2020, the Ugandan government responded by shutting the country down. Stores were closed, transportation ceased to exist and to make things worse, it was the planting season and there were no crops to harvest. The majority of the people who live in and around the mountain village of Nangala live hand to mouth at best. The families are large and the employment opportunities are limited, so most families have no reserve to carry them through a disaster like the early Covid 19 pandemic.