Edoovillage #1470 - Uganda, Rubanda Kabale: St. Adrian’s Seminary

St. Adrian’s Seminary is one of three diocesan minor seminaries in Kabale diocese Uganda. It started in 1982 due to the need to increase accessibility of quality education to the children from poor families who could not afford to move long distances in search for good schools. The seminary has since then provided quality education with the aim of nurturing and preparing young boys to be future priests. Every year the diocese has an ordination, there are always students who studied from St. Adrian’s Seminary. It has both Ordinary and Advanced levels and is the best school in the district of Rubanda and still ranks among the best first 100 secondary schools in the country. Currently it has a total enrolment of 471 students both in Ordinary and Advanced levels.
It has maintained its core objective of providing quality education to children from poor families. It is totally a private school with no aid of any kind from the government, and yet still remains a non-profit making school unlike most private schools in the country. In the recent five years, it became a policy to have Information Communications Technology (ICT) as a subject at Advanced level depending on the combination of the students. In the government aided schools, the government supplied computers to facilitate this.
At the seminary considering that the students come from poor families and therefore pay little tuition and some even pay it with difficult, the seminary administration bought only 4 computers to comply with the government policy and avoid the risk of being sanctioned if an official from the ministry of Education would visit the seminary. These four computers are shared by the 40 students in senior five and senior six who study ICT. This means that each computer is shared by 10 students during the lessons which does not allow each student an individual chance for practicing and will eventually affect negatively their acquisition of the intended computer knowledge and skills. The seminary administration cannot increase the tuition so as to raise money to buy computers because many students will automatically dropout of school due to their parents failing to pay the tuition.
There is a desire even among the students of Ordinary Level to study ICT since the world now is going the computer way but we cannot dare because of the limited available means. Therefore with this background, we kindly apply to your generosity to help us with 30 laptop computers to enable us equip the young seminarians with computer knowledge and skills with easy.

These laptops will be used by the seminarians during every lesson during class time under the guidance and supervision of their ICT teachers. In addition during weekends and other free time since all the students stay at the seminary throughout the time, they will arrange with their teachers to go to the computer laboratory for personal practicing. This too will be under the guidance and supervision of the teacher. Therefore with these laptops, the acquistion of computer knowledge and skills both theoretical and practical will be enhanced and consequently the performance of ICT in the termly and National examinations will greatly improve. The students will be at the same pase with those of government aided schools where the government supplied the computers.
We pledge to maintain the laptops well for future use since every year there is recruitment in senior five. You will thus not have helped the present students alone but even a great many to come in the future.
The seminary is already connected with hydro electrict power and has a generator in case the power is off during lessons or during night study.
http://kabalediocese.org/index.php/socail-services/e-d-u-c-a-t-i-o-n-d-e... and the website of the Uganda Episcopal Conference: https://www.uecon.org/index.php/28-kabale/252-seminaries-and-other-house...