Saving New Brainstorm School

New Brainstorm school is a primary school for street children in Kampala, Uganda. It was founded by Mr. Nikolas John Kintu in 2010 when he took it upon himself to educate 8 parentless street children in his spare time. Word spread amongst the local community that a man was willing to educate local children for free. Subsequently, the school grew to 90 pupils, a large number orphaned by the HIV AIDS epidemic, all educated on a piece of borrowed land in small wooden shacks. Lisa Peters, a member of Cookham Rise Primary School, was introduced to the #newbrainstorm through www.empower-a-child.org. When New Brainstorm was later threatened with closure by local authorities in January 2015 due to lack of sanitation and dangerous architecture, Lisa and her students at Cookham Rise decided to start a charitable initiative to help keep the school running. During 2015/16 the initiative raised £10,000 through a variety of fundraising events; from a school play to craft fayres to sponsored silences! We are delighted that www.empower-a-child.org/ has taken us under their wing to ensure that all fundraising receives charity status and is appropriated directly to #newbrainstorm. They are also managing the development project on the ground. Since 2016/17 we've re-located the school and have been raising funds to purchase the land that the school is currently renting, and have purchased 2 acres of land nearby to cultivate fruit, vegetables and livestock to fund the teaching staff. Once the land is purchased, the school will have guaranteed its existence but will need further support to realise its full potential. Please contact us if you can help us to support this wonderful school by supporting any of its wonderful children, or you can donate here: https://my.give.net/brainstorm https://www.facebook.com/savingnewbrainstormschool