Our Centres
Children and staff
Kanyanya Centre – our wall outside
Our Kanyanya Building – a 4-bedroom house with a boys’ quarters at the back
Kanyanya Centre
Kanyanya Centre is situated on Plot 1050, Bahai Road, Kanyanya. If one is proceeding along Gayaza Road, at the Gaz service / petrol station, turn right onto the Bahai Road and PASNEC is situated about 150 metres along on the left – hand side. It is slightly set back from the road and a jungle scene running horizontally from the road, on the outside wall, will help you to know that you are in the right place. Kanyanya Centre is our main centre as administrative and financial work is handled there for all centres.
The Centre is open Monday to Thursday 8.00am to 4.00pm and Fridays 8.00am to 1.00pm.
The main room of the building has our Early Learning Centre. The children can move around freely in this area as there are many activities for them to play with and learn from. This space helps a child to settle in as it is not so structured as a classroom setting.
The main room of the building has our Early Learning Centre. The children can move around freely in this area as there are many activities for them to play with and learn from. This space helps a child to settle in as it is not so structured as a classroom setting.
Other class/es have their day divided into 3 main sections. One section is based on basic numeracy and literacy and another on other subjects like RE, SST and Science, sex and health education. All classes work on vocational activities in the afternoons and this is geared to the ability of the children. They can plait hair, make snacks, sew, make liquid soap, counter books and candles, do some gardening and look after chickens amongst other things.
The children learn skills that hopefully in the future will earn them a little income. Added into this, there is also self – help skills, activities of daily living like washing the cups and plates, a weekly sports session and a daily assembly with music etc.
Our reception area also contains a display cabinet in which a few of the things that the children have made are displayed. Parents are encouraged to buy what their children have made and visitors are also encouraged to buy things to support us.
Early Learning Centre
Vocational work – making counter / hard backed writing books
Concentration is needed for threading beads to make into a necklace.
There is not so much space for gardening at Kanyanya, so the children learn how to grow crops in sacks.
Children and staff
Our classroom building which is currently being lent to us from Centre for New Beginnings. A classroom block needs to be built in future
Seguku Centre
Seguku Centre is located at Seguku – Katale, Busawula. It is nearer Kampala but is in between Kampala and Entebbe. It is situated on a beautiful site on top of a hill next to Prayer Mountain.
The Centre is still buying the plot of land that it is on but it has use of several more acres. It is currently being lent a building, which serves as a classroom block, from Centre for New Beginnings (CNB), which is on the adjacent land.
Seguku Centre opened officially on February 11th. 2019 having moved from Guluddene Centre. All staff, children and equipment shifted from there in November 2018.
Seguku PASNEC has its own dormitory block. Currently, all 24 children there are of secondary age and boarders. Only older children / young adults can be boarders. As the local community get to know that we are around, we will accept day pupils and those who are younger.
The dormitory building has 6 dormitories in – each painted a different colour and takes a maximum of 6 children in each. Girls are one side of the building and boys the other with the matron’s room separating them. Each side obviously having their own toilets and showers.
Our dormitories hold 6 children in each and are painted in different colours.
The children again have their day split into 3 sections. One section is spent on gardening and livestock. Not so much can be grown on the land because there are so many monkeys around and they eat all the crops unless they are protected. Greens can be grown as the monkeys do not seem to eat them but otherwise tomatoes and onions are grown in sacks on top of one of our underground water tanks as the area is fenced. Cows and chickens are kept and the children are taught how to look after them. They benefit from the milk, meat and eggs and when we have excess we sell it for extra income. The second slot in a day is spent on basic numeracy and literacy and other subjects: RE, SST and Science, sex and health education. In the afternoons, all groups work on vocational activities. All items made by the children are displayed in our kiosk which is on site.
There are many monkeys in this area and they eat most crops grown. Here tomatoes are being grown in sacks in an enclosed area on top of one of our underground water tanks.
Sweeping the compound and weeding the flowers
A child learning how to milk one of our cows. We keep chickens as well
Part of the inside of the kiosk. The counter books and liquid soap have been made by the children.
The other side of the kiosk with items made by our children: Paper mashe products, a chair and stool, embroidered bags, rolling pins, mats and concrete flower pots etc.
The older boys try some basic woodwork and have made mingling sticks, rolling pins, money boxes and stools amongst other items. They also help with maintenance and have revarnished shelving in the dormitory block for example. Some of the girls have made mats, baskets, bathing sponges and jewelry – necklaces, bangles and ear rings. Less able children have made paper mâché products like pen holders and waste paper bins. The children are exposed to how to make a wide variety of items and sponges, key rings, candles and liquid soap etc. are also made.
There is a rota for classes to help with the kiosk. When it is the turn of a class for the week, those children make chapatis, mandazi and daddies which are sold in the kiosk. One or two children at a time help the assistant in the kiosk. They greet customers, serve drinks & snacks, handle money if they can manage to, wipe the tables and run errands. This help with social skills.
Outside of school hours, children have a mixture of activities with both indoor and outdoor sports and games, dancing, singing and personal times of rest and relaxation etc. Children wash their own clothes and polish their shoes over a weekend. They enjoy a film on a DVD on a Saturday night and we have a Christian service on a Sunday morning.
Boys engrossed in their writing books
A child pouring hot water into a cup to make a cup of tea. The other child is ready to serve the customer and they are being supervised by a staff member.
The older boys at Seguku, cementing in equipment for a play area
The completed play area.
After school activities and games.
The children have a church service on a Sunday morning.
