The vision of the staff's Development Association is, "Creating a society where workers have equal and sufficient economic and social opportunities to improve their standards of living and where they can contribute productively towards the overall development of the country."

One of the projects for the KAASO Development Association is already underway! Here are some staff and students from KAASO visiting a local training centre to learn how to make bar soap, liquid soap, shampoo, and chalk for the school blackboards 👍

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Sending thanks and holiday cheer through the post! ✏️💌 It's that time of year ☃️🎄❄️ #christmascards #handwritten #holidaycheer

Congratulations to the Top Class on their Graduation, ready to move up to Primary 1 class next year 🎓🤍🎓 (reposted from @kaasouganda on Instagram)

It's hard to believe KAASO started with just 12 students in 1999...there are now 707 students and 57 staff members! It is incredible to see how this school and community project have grown over the years 💚

Wishing all of our amazing supporters a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Thank you for your generosity 🙏 Your support makes a huge difference! We are so grateful for each and every one of you. This will be our last post for 2022 - enjoy the festive season ☃️ #christmas

Our latest newsletter is now out! Follow the link to hear about our plans for the year and a visit to KAASO in March! 👉eepurl.com/iimUcf 🎉😀

Huge congratulations to the students at KAASO for your AMAZING Primary Leaving Exam results. 43 First Grades and 17 Second Grades 👏🎉🙌🎓 Fantastic to see the celebrations underway! #PrimaryEducationUganda #UgandaSchoolExamResults #UgandaEducationExcellence

Lovely photos from Dominic 💚 His caption: 'Working with our kids to harvest the maize corn from our school garden. They love this so much.' 🌽🌽🌽🌽

We recently sent funds to St Paul KAASO for a number of projects and these items were bought almost immediately! Staff utenstils including metal saucepans, plates, teapots, cutlery and more 🍴 We were delighted to receive this video and lots of lovely photos 🙏 #uganda #school

Chairs galore! Last year, Unity is Strength supported St Paul KAASO to buy chairs that they could hire out at community events to generate some additional income for the school. This has been very successful and Dominic was keen to expand - so were happy to fund a few more! 🪑🪑

10,000 litre water tank delivered and blessed 🙏 and solar power system updated! The old batteries have been replaced, the panels have been cleaned and all is working well 👌 Can't wait to get out there in a couple of weeks and see all of this in-person 😀

Here's Nurse Shiba monitoring the Brick-making project. Nurse Shiba is the Chairperson of the newly formed KAASO Staff Development Association, which will issue #microloans to individuals and groups working at KAASO to run #SmallBusinesses to supplement their salaries 👌

Wow. KAASO, An orphanage/school and farm in Uganda run by the incomparable Dominic and Rose Mukwaya. Over 700 children learn to read and write here, while building community with the teachers and local people involved in the enterprises. We can learn so much from this. Amazing.

Thank you so much for visiting KAASO Phepson Angus ! It has been fantastic having you here and we are so pleased you enjoyed your stay 💚

.Lizzie Hulton-Harrop and Phepson Angus recently spent a week at KAASO visiting the projects supported by Unity is Strength and discussing future plans with the founders and Directors of KAASO, Dominic and Rose Mukwaya. Read about their trip in this blog post 👉 unityisstrength.org.uk/visit-to-kaaso

While we were at KAASO, we talked with Dominic and Rose about how to allocate our funds when there are so many competing priorities. Something that came higher than everything else was safety, so we are delighted to have helped to provide new fire extinguishers at the school.

Sorry it's been quiet on here for a while. We have just sent out a newsletter with some exciting updates...the microloan initiative is helping to retain teachers at KAASO 🎉 Read all about it here 👉mailchi.mp/2bd5e9abf6b0/j…