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Scholarships – Primary, High School and Beyond
Uganda Schools Project
POE has e a merit scholarship program within Mukono Primary School. Although Mukono School is not a private school, it still costs students $50 per term to attend. In 2022, POE instituted a merit scholarship program where any student who scores above a predetermined level on the government test administered at the end of the term receives a scholarship ($50) to pay for their next term. We wanted a system where all the students can strive and succeed, not where we take just the top 2 or 3 from each class. Over the past 4 years the number of merit scholars has more than doubled with the most recent term having 46 merit scholars. This is for the students currently at Mukono School in nursery through grade P7.
Due to financial constraints, after Mukono School, most graduates did not go onto high school. The best high schools in the district are boarding schools about an hour and a half from Bwindi. In December of 2022 POE promised to provide full scholarships for any students to attend one of the boarding high schools (approximately $1,100 per year) who scored in the top division on the end of the year Primary Leaving Exam (PLE) taken when students complete grade P7. Typically, Mukono had 0 or 1 students score in this top division for the past 10 years, with a high of 3 in 2020 after the lunch program was instituted in 2018 and before Covid hit.
In January 2023 the PLE results placed Mukono as the second best public school in their district with 7 students scoring in the highest division! By January of 2026 we had 38 students in our high school sponsorship program and the number that qualify each year is increasing. The improvements in the school have been big and fast, but there is still more to do! We plan to continue to support all students in high school who score in division 1 on the PLE and our support will continue through university if they meet certain benchmarks. To date ZERO students have dropped out of the scholarship program!
This is an area where we are definitely looking for donor support as the program expands with new students each year and we would like to support successful students through University. See Plans for the Future – How You Can Help on our main Uganda Schools page.
If you would like to visit Mukono School, check out this video…
https://youtu.be/dOeONv3QHlo
If you are thinking of donating, check out this video…
https://youtu.be/DbULkDJTmd4
Link to our donation page…
https://poescholarships.org/get-involved/donate/
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