A Word from a Doors Primary School Parent

A Word from a Doors Primary School Parent

Meet Blessing. Blessing has two sons at Doors Primary School, one daughter awaiting a partner in the Secondary School Scholarship Program, and one toddler at home. She is a single mother who has felt the incredible impact of the school personally.

“My kids had no chance of going to school due to poverty…because of Doors Primary School, my kids have a chance to go to school where one is in Primary 2 now and one is in Top Class (Kindergarten). I thought this would be impossible. The school has provided food for my kids, and even clothing at times too. My kids started at the school when they didn’t speak English, but now they can speak English very well. I am very grateful for the way the school has taught my kids about God and how to pray.”

Consider partnering with one of Blessing’s sons or another student of Doors Primary at $37/month, allowing the school to remain open and positively impacting students and families for the glory of God. Contact us for more information.

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A Story of Family Impact

Meet Nakavovu Sharon, A Story of Family Impact

 Sharon has been a student at Doors Primary School since it started in 2012. Her mother was one of the original members of the former aDOORned jewelry and artisans program of Doors. In fact, it was her mother’s story that motivated the creation of that program within Doors.

Sharon’s mother is a single parent with 4 children. She found herself struggling to provide for the family and in a spiral of hopelessness due to her circumstances. Selling herself was the solution she came to in order to feed the many mouths in her home. It was through Doors that she was given hope in darkness. She saw the Gospel lived out like never before and seeds of faith were planted. She was empowered to leave her former line of work, and provide for her family in other, healthier ways.

Sharon has come to a knowledge and love of God through her attendance at Doors Primary School. She has been treated in the school’s nurse’s office for typhoid, malnutrition and malaria. She says her favorite things about the school are “the good teachers and the friends I have made. Also, the games that take place at the school.”

Despite her history, Sharon has a bright and promising future that awaits her thanks to the grace of God. She is at the top of her class and dreams of being a doctor one day. As she puts it, “Science is my favorite subject. I like science because I want to be a doctor in the future and you can’t be a doctor when you don’t like science.”

Sharon is currently unsponsored.

Through your partnership of only $37/month, Sharon will be able to continue her education at Doors Primary School as she chases her dreams.

Consider partnering with Sharon, or one of the many other faces and smiles of Doors Primary School, in their fight for their futures and education. Contact us for more information.

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Breaking the Cycle of Poverty in Namuwongo

Cycle of Poverty: “a set of factors or events by which poverty, once started, is likely to continue unless there is outside intervention” (Hutchinson Encyclopedia)

This is exactly what we have seen and experienced in the Namuwongo slum of Kampala where Doors Primary School is located. Parents (and generations before) have fallen into poverty, a poverty so severe that education and proper nutrition has not been attainable. This is the future that awaits these parents’ children as the parents are unable to find consistent jobs to fully provide for themselves and families due to their own lack of education and poor health. Their children can remain uneducated and malnourished, unable to break this powerful cycle of poverty before them…unless an outside intervention comes in to help.

Doors Primary School works hard to break this cycle by empowering families with the Gospel of Christ. The school walks out the Jesus’ command to “make disciples” every day, and truly “loves their neighbor” by first “loving God.” Parents are able to send their children to Doors Primary School to receive a quality education, receive free basic medical care, and grow in their knowledge and understanding of God. This is only made possible as children at the school are connected with a monthly financial partner such as yourself. Your monthly gift of just $37/month per student goes directly towards paying school facility rent, teacher and staff salaries, curriculum costs, lunch every day, breakfast 2 times a week, school registration, and more. This allows parents to send their children to receive an education that they otherwise could not afford.

Doors Primary School fights every day to lay the foundation in Christ to break the cycle of poverty in Namuwongo.

Consider partnering with a student of Doors Primary at $37/month, allowing the school to remain open and positively impacting students and families for the glory of God. Contact us for more information.

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Meet Vincent, Doors Primary School Administrator

Vincent has been on staff at Doors Primary School since September 3^rd, 2012; a date he will never forget. He started as a science and math teacher, and has since been promoted to the role of School Administrator. He’s been offered several other higher paying jobs, but has chosen to stand with Doors Primary School even if it means he has to volunteer and go without pay at times.

Why has he stayed at the school so long?

“I love teaching the kids, teaching them school things and also behaviors so that they can be important people in society. I am a fixer and I like fixing problems, so I try every day to solve any problem those kids are having at home…I also like preaching to them so that they get to know God because this is the most important thing in our lives as Christians.”

Why does he believe in the future of Doors Primary School?

“Having worked at the school for more than 5 years now, I have seen how the school has positively impacted the lives of the kids who have passed through the school (graduated). They have become responsible people and they are trying to help their families. This can’t stop here because Namuwongo and Uganda at large has many children who need education. With Doors Primary School around, we can help with that. The school teaches kids and even their parents about Jesus Christ, more and more people need to know about Jesus Christ. With the school around, more kids and parents will get to know more about the Gospel of Christ.”

Consider partnering with a student of Doors Primary at $37/month or a student that has graduated and moved on to Secondary School Scholarship at $80/month, allowing the school to remain open and positively impacting students and families for the glory of God. Contact us for more information.

A Day in the Life of a Primary 3 Pupil at Doors Primary School

A Day in the Life of a Primary 3 Pupil at Doors Primary School

Meet ASHABA PATRA. Every school morning, Patra wakes up, quickly eats her breakfast, and makes her way to Doors Primary School. She arrives before 8am to make sure she is in time for daily morning chapel which starts promptly at 8am with a taking of attendance.

Chapel begins with a time of praise and worship usually led by fellow students. One of Patra’s teachers will share a short devotion from the Word of God to encourage the students and teach them about God. Thursdays, a student is chosen to lead their peers in the devotion and teaching time. After the Word is shared and a time of prayer had, any school-wide announcements are made. Patra then gets dismissed to attend her morning block of classes.

From 8:30-10am, Patra attends 30 minute class intervals of Mathematics, Reading and Writing. Twice a week, she has PE during part of this time block. She enjoys the games that the coach leads them in.

Morning break time is from 10-10:45am where Patra can run around with her friends playing and enjoy a snack that she has either brought from home, or asks her uncle to buy for her from the school snack bar that sells local home-made foods. Patra’s uncle is a teacher at the school and adores Patra, he can rarely refuse her.

After break, it is back to class for Patra. She has 45 minute class intervals of Science and Social Studies, English, and Christian Religious Education. 1-2pm is the lunch hour where she is served a healthy portion of beans with either posho (local maize flour boiled) or rice. Patra likes to eat her lunch as quickly as possible so she can have as much time as possible to play with her friends.

Once lunch ends, Patra is back in class being assigned her homework for the evening by her class teacher. Sometimes she has time to begin this at school. The last hour of the school day, 3-4pm, is spent healing to clean up the campus with her school mates. Every day the students sweep and clean the classrooms and school compound, take out the trash, clean the campus latrines, and organize the classrooms.

At 4pm, Patra makes her way home, usually with her uncle. Once at home she spends time working on her homework, helping with household chores, and washing her uniform to make sure it is ready for the next day of school.

Patra currently lives with her uncle. She was abandoned by her father when her mother was still pregnant with her, and has since been neglected and abandoned by her mother. Patra’s grandmother took her in until 2017, when she passed away. Patra has been living with her uncle ever since who does his best to care for her.

Patra is currently unsponsored.

Through your partnership of only $37/month, Patra will be able to continue her education at Doors Primary School as she chases her dreams.

Consider partnering with Patra, or one of the many other faces and smiles of Doors Primary School, in her fight for her future and education. Contact us for more information.

What Doors Primary School means to the Teachers

Meet Monica, Nursery Teacher at Doors Primary School since 2013

Monica has stood with Doors Primary School almost since the beginning. She has been a faithful and dedicated nursery level teacher teaching all three classes within the nursery block: Baby Class, Middle Class, and Top Class. (The equivalent of Pre-K and Kindergarten elsewhere).

When asked why she has stood with the school for all that time, in challenging seasons and joyful ones, she says: “Being at Doors Primary School is a calling from God for me. I am a minister and not a worker here, I have to fulfill the reason why God has set me at Doors Primary School. I must teach the kids of Namuwongo more about God than just the education they are getting at school.”

“Doors Primary School is a Christian based school that teaches kids about Jesus Christ, which is not the case in other schools. Doors Primary teaches the kids how to live a godly life, besides giving them the required education at school…God has a plan for the school. We need to fight more with God’s grace to see the school stand because it impacts not only the students positively, but also the teachers and the parents of the kids.” –Monica, when asked about what makes Doors Primary School unique

Monica has seen 2 of her children graduate out of Doors Primary School, continuing on in the Secondary School Scholarship program of Doors. Currently both of her daughters, Sandra and Peace, are awaiting financial partners in order to continue their education in secondary school.

Consider partnering with a student of Doors Primary at $37/month, allowing the school to remain open and positively impacting students and families for the glory of God. Contact us for more information.

Connect with Us

One challenge many of our friends and family comment on is that they feel so far and disconnected from Doors and the people in Uganda. Even former volunteers have made these remarks after returning back to their home countries. Being here in Uganda, we desire deeply for our friends and family to really know and continue to experience relationships with the people of Doors.

This has motivated us to find a way for people afar to better connect and build relationships with people here! We want you to be able to regularly correspond with and support one of the students at Doors Primary School…or provide a scholarship and words of encouragement  for a student in secondary school as they go through exams and feel pressure as the first in his/her  family to reach such an academic milestone …or know with confidence that one of the boys formerly in the Doors Boys’ Home is now thriving in the security and safety of his new foster family.

Are you interested in connecting more deeply with Doors? Would like you like to be able to better get to know one of the students or teenagers who have been blessed by God’s work through Doors Ministries?

Consider becoming a monthly financial partner for, or regular correspondent with, one of the many smiles and testimonies of God’s work through Doors Ministries.

We now offer opportunities for people like you to connect one-on-one with a child within Doors by becoming a monthly partner. We are seeking partners for 100 pupils at Doors Primary School to keep the school open and the children receiving the care, counsel and discipleship they need. For just $37 a month, one child is able to continue their education at Doors Primary School. In addition, we are seeking 18 partners for Secondary Students at $80 a month to allow these bright young men and women who have graduated from Doors Primary School to continue their education through secondary school and take one step closer towards pursuing their dreams and breaking the cycle of poverty and lack of education in their families. Lastly, we are seeking 6 partners for each of the boys formerly in the rehabilitative Doors Boys Home at $80 a month, allowing each child to be resettled in a foster home setting and continue their education and discipleship in a family environment. Programs and education will only be able to continue for the children of Doors as monthly partners step forward. 

If you are able to give monthly, but not the amounts listed, please do not be deterred. Any amount towards one person’s future goes a long way. We are happy to connect you with a child or teenager no matter the amount you are able to give at this time.

If you are unable to give monthly, but want to connect more deeply with Doors, we would be thrilled to partner you with a child or teenager for regular correspondences.  

 If you are interested in connecting with one of our children or teenagers and becoming a monthly partner, please send Ashley an email at Ashley@doorsministries.org for more information, or send us a message through this page or on our Facebook.  

We praise God for His continual provision and blessing on Doors Ministries, and we are so grateful for your support in the past and now. We look forward to connecting more deeply with you!

To make your monthly donation to Doors, you have many reliable options for giving. You can mail a check payable to Allegro Solutions (with our account designation code DoorsMinistries.001 included on the memo line), call Allegro and set up a credit card or direct bank transfer over the phone (reach Allegro at 713-874-1519), or give online by going to https://allegrosolutions.org/donate/DoorsMinistries001. Online, you are now able to give through credit card, PayPal, or an electronic bank transfer. We recommend an electronic bank transfer as it has the lowest overhead charge incurred allowing more of your money given to go directly to Doors and the work being done. To set up a recurring donation, simply click on the “recurring” icon opposed to the “1x” default icon. Please let Ashley Lammers know if you have any questions about how to set up your account, or where exactly your money goes. She is available via email at Ashley@doorsministries.org and is very happy to explain everything in full to you.