Nyamirama Photos

Nyamirama is located in the Kanungu District in westernmost Uganda, near the Congo. There the land is hilly and fertile, part of the Rift Valley with its lakes, e.g. Kivu, Edward and Albert. It could be a rich province but the roads are bad, so it is difficult to sell agricultural products. It is near the National Parks of Bwindi (with the pygmy people and mountain gorillas) and Queen Elisabeth. Nyamirama is a village and there we find the St. Josephs Parish with its church and school. Below are father Aloysius and Sister Prudence. You also wee school children doing their own laundry on a Sunday afternoon.

Girls from the villages outside Nyamirama outside their dormitory.

The parish church. On Saturday evenings the boarding children meet there and sing and play.

Shillah, a social worker showing the Kanungu landscape, not far from the Bwindi National Park.

Household chores are done on the doorsteps.

The 96 retired Chromebooks donated ny the Åland University of Applied Scineces in Finland finally arrived in February 2024, after 6 months of sea transport. A WiFi network has been set up so all can be used. That way chilidren can learn skills that will find them jobs. Otherwise they will work in agriculture in the villages, a precarious livelihood, exposed to various social problems.

Thanks to the popularity of the Chromebooks many more students have applied too study. The fact that the school now offers computer training also has opened up for the school to offer a fifth year of secondary school.