Sjaak is the latest addition and volunteer to our Kimbilio Team. It is a privilege to meet Mr. Sjaak, a gifted teacher of Physics at Kimbilio!The name Sjaak in English stands for James and the sir-name Meertens has it’s root in the name “Martin”.Sjaak is a Dutch national, a father of two children, a girl…
After a courtesy call by the Director of Morkiswa Community Skilling Institute -Tororo to Kimbilio, he later brought in his request of allowing some of his students to come and do their internship from here. This very Institute is where three of our sponsored students study. And after Kimbilio Director agreeing, they sent in a…
What a long wait since the lockdown of Covid-19 in Uganda in March! But now we are excited to see at least these two classes reporting back and even with good health. Now the schools are allowed to reopen to the candidate classes like P7 and S4, it has been a week of them reporting…
After the president’s last address on the current state of Covid-19 in the country, Schools are now alowed to reopen, be it with Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). The Schools are to reopen this very month on 15th and only the finalists like: Primary-Seven, Senior-Four, and Senior-Six candidates and those in Universities. Presently in our School,…
Just keeping you informed on what’s cooking at Kimbilio.The on-going activities include; finalizing the glass fitting and painting of Kimbilio High School (KHS) offices, fitting doors/ windows on the new Kimbilio Primary School (KPS) office, preparing the trusses which are ready for KHS-Boys dormitory roofing and finally fixing of windows / doors on new staff…
Once again, we thank God that we are able to continue working in the midst of the Corona crisis.This week a lot is being done including the wall fence building (from the lower gate to the the staff quarters), trench repairs by our teachers, raising the new staff house to beam level, partitioning and glass…
One positive side-effect of the corona lock-down is that some of the project that were in the pipe-line are now being implemented.This week was the kick off on the new office for the Head Teacher Primary school. It will be much more spacious compared to the old one and yet it is going to serve…
Due to the COVID-19 situation and the extended period of school closure, some of our employees especially the teaching staff have been staying at home for some time. Not by choice, but by circumstances beyond their control. Most private schools have resorted to suspend their staff or reduced their payments to the very minimum they…
Although COVID-19 affected most work places and businesses, the presidential order allowed for building sites to continue work on condition that builders were kept on-site. And that is what most of our builders agreed to do. It has given us enough time to finish up some of the pending projects, in preparation for official opening…
Even though Uganda has to date not yet had a confirmed case, the government has given the directive to close all schools. We completely agree with the policy of social isolation as a preventative measure and acted immediately in March 19 2020 early in the morning and called the guardians to pick up their children.…