The day in the life of an average child in rural Africa consists of fetching water from the well for bathing, cooking, cleaning, doing laundry, and assisting parents in farming for food. Life is about survival and acquiring the basic necessities to live. Electricity, plumbing, or running water are all luxuries for a family living together on a small mud floor
So, quality education in rural Uganda would only be a dream. This is because basic quality education is almost nonexistent in rural villages, and boarding schools are not financially viable. With an income of less than $2 per day, education is impossible.
The only hope for a villager to go to school and break the cycle of poverty is when the whole family pulls all its resources together for one or two children to board in a town school. Education is a privilege, not a right. For this reason, only about 6% ever finish the equivalent of a junior high school education. Without intervention, these children grow up with little or no ability to read or write.
Learn More About How Legacy Christian Academy comes alongside families in Kubamitwe to nurture children’s growth in four key areas:
1) Academics 2) Social skills 3) Moral strength 4) Spiritual connection
SOS’s Legacy Christian Academy (LCA) is using an American/Ugandan integrated teaching curriculum.
SOS strives to deliver high-quality education that is simultaneously effective and practical to the Ugandan context while meeting/exceeding worldwide academic standards. Furthermore, SOS prepares our students to sit for and pass the Ugandan standardized tests (PLE–Primary Leaving Examination) given to all Ugandan students by the Uganda National Examination Board.
Among Ugandan families struggling with the challenges of poverty and cultural dysfunction, social skills training rarely makes the priority list in childrearing. Our LCA students begin learning basic social behaviors.
Our desire is not to make Legacy students American, but to honor and uphold their Ugandan culture while equipping them with opportunities to become citizens and leaders, capable of respectfully handling themselves in any situation.
Each month, we focus on a different age-appropriate character trait, like generosity, kindness, attentiveness, or truthfulness, to name a few. Throughout the whole month, teachers will emphasize that trait by
The focus: helping children understand what is proper and improper moral behavior, according to God’s Word.
When SOS chose the name Legacy CHRISTIAN Academy, it was because we are serious about opening the door for Jesus every day, in every classroom. He is the center of every aspect of the school.
From daily Bible class, biweekly chapel times and spiritual retreats with carefully chosen, Christ-following teachers and staff at LCA, we have designed a school that surrounds children with the hope of God the King.
We want every child in our community to confidently read, write, and think. But our most heartfelt desire is for them to apply that to being able to know, love, and follow after Jesus Christ, taking that message into their homes and out to the community and the nations. Too many people throughout Africa are told to love Christ, but haven’t had the opportunity to cultivate the ability to effectively read or think through God’s Word for themselves.
