Education is such a vital ingredient of a country’s development recipe, as it is known to furnish the tools with which children and young people carve out their lives, and is a lifelong source of comfort, renewal and strength.  Children’s school attendance and enrolment have been severely battered by AIDS, to such an extent that countries like The Central African Republic and Swaziland have reported a drop in school enrolment and attendance of 20%-36%, attributed to AIDS and orphan hood.

Uganda has moved a step in the right direction by embracing Free Primary Education for all since 1997. Despite this, studies have uncovered glaring gaps in the quality of teaching and an astronomical increase in the number of dropouts, decreasing enrolment notwithstanding. This, they say, is a function of implicit costs like building fee, feeding, uniforms, books and pens and other scholastic materials, plus the incidence of AIDS, as children are required to stay home to cater for terminally ill relatives coupled, with the shrink in the total house hold resource base, as medical care, funeral costs, labour loss and the like take their toll.

BRELIM CHARITY realized that it was her duty to plug this gap in helping non-school going children access formal education through the provision of the stringent scholastic requirements necessary. BRELIM CHARITY does this by pursuing a double-pronged approach: 

a) Cognizant that AIDS robes children of their parents, we trace the next of kin to them and place them there, so as to keep that unique semblance of parental attachment going. In the absence of these, we identify families with the capacity to absorb one or two extra souls, and then place them there. These families are expected to treat the orphans as though they are their own children, by providing them with whatever their families would: food, shelter, medical care, education, clothing, but above all, love without peripheral qualifications. BRELIM CHARITY now visits these homes once on a weekly basis to supervise and ascertain compliance to BRELIM CHARITY's minimum set standards. 

ABOVE IS NAMUSOBYA STELLA 15YEARS SHE LOST THE MOTHER AND FATHER ON THAT FATEFUL DAY WHEN THE MIN BUS THEY WHERE TRAVELLING IN TO JINJA GOT INVOLVED IN AN ACCIDENT,LEAVING EVERY BODY DEAD WITH ONE 3 YEARS STELLA BEING THE ONLY SURVIVER,STELLA WAS TAKEN TO A NEARBY RADIO STATION FOR ANNOUNCEMENT AND THE STEP MOTHER PICKED HER UP.SHE HAS SINCE THEN LIVED UNDER GOD'S GRACE.

Once abandoned and miserable stella, now full of hope and joy taking the lead in Joyous celebrations for what the Lord has done.

b) To ease the burden of looking for requisite materials necessary for schooling, we wish to develope a primary school with a capacity for accommodating the educational needs of close to 200 children called BRELIM INTEGRATED SCHOOL which will run from kindergarten to primary seven, should resources for construction and sustainability of day-to-day activities become available. 

	Brelim Charity Child current Head Offices in Iganga District - Uganda

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