COME Uganda
Directors: Frank and Michele Heyward, Lugala, Uganda
Years of partnership with AHI: 8
COME Uganda website
Progress and Achievements
Frank and Michele Heyward have continued to grow as an organisation with three excellent schools operating. Developments this year included the Heywards becoming hands on directors of the HOPE School at Kasengejje. Previously working as overseers of this project, an unexpected departure of the previous leadership resulted in the Heywards becoming closely involved with the day to day operations. This has lifted the school standard and resulted in a refining of the vision of the school. At last, the temporary classes of timber slabs, dirt floors, plastic sheets and tin have given way to 2 new double mudbrick units. The school is now in a much stronger position to accommodate future growth and better education standards for hundreds of children who otherwise would never receive an education. The project has a good church on site, the building being used for 2 classrooms each week also.
Another great achievement for COME Uganda is to have secured the right parcel of land to build the HOPE Medical Centre which will treat acid burn victims and people suffering from HIV/AIDS. There is an ambulance donated from Australia waiting to be shipped over as well as hospital beds and equipment.
As with all COME projects, Frank's expertise as a builder has proved invaluable and the result is structures of excellent economic design and construction quality. There are currently 430 children in the HOPE Nursery and Primary Schools founded by COME.