Livingstone Kaweesi started Focus on Orphans Foundation with its Education wing, Focus Junior School, located in Nsangi Sub-county, Kyengera Town Council, Wakiso District, Uganda, East Africa. Their efforts were mainly aiming at alleviating orphans’ disadvantage and ensuring that each orphan achieves her/his highest potential in life.

This education arm of the foundation currently manages all instruction, learning and early childhood development activities including the development of Christian values and child protection. Currently, the enrolment in Focus Junior School is 220 learners, of which 67 learners are orphans. The fees paid by 153 learners is what the organization uses to support the orphans and also meet the operating costs of the school such as salaries, utilities, rent, food, stationery and medical care. However, the foundation gets constrained as the funds are inadequate to run all those essential activities.

We are looking forward to expanding the school to accommodate more learners that are paying fees to increase the revenue for the organization. This will lead to increased numbers of orphans being supported by the school. In that way, the project will be self-sustaining. However, this expansion needs funds to be implemented. If the foundation is well funded, this strategy will lead to a gradual building up of the financial capacity to support the education of these orphans to post primary levels of education.