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Annual Reviews

REVIEWING THE OVC PERFORMANCE IN THE PRESENCE OF THEIR PARENTS

Established a few years ago, BOF is an organization focused on improving the lively hoods of the OVC in Nangaiza and break the vicious circle of poverty. Through this project we help children with scholastic materials which are some of the obstacles that stop children from accessing proper education. We further help a couple of OVC with school fees and other school utilities ranging from school uniforms to casual out of school clothes.

Last year we were able to facilitate three children in boarding school: ochieng Brian our first beneficiary who has also managed to complete his advanced level exams in Homeland Lugazi high school and God willing will be joining University later this year, Gimbo Eseza who is joining primary one at Yesu Afayo primary school, Wandera Eridad who is joining primary seven and Tusiime Tracy who is joining senior three and Namba John who is joining primary three in a day school.

The academic year in the primary and secondary level in Uganda normally starts in early February and ends in early December. The year is divided in three terms. Whereas all terms are important, the third term is the most important of them all because it determines the child’s transition from one class to another. In order to full fill our mission and vision there is need for constant follow up and evaluation of the students that we support. We therefore collect their termly reports to check on their progress and further discuss the results with the parents and the teachers to ensure that they improve and those who are good maintain.

Below is an analysis of the yearly performance of our students.


NAME	GENDER	CLASS	POSITIONS IN THE WHOLE YEAR
			FIRST TERM	SECOND TERM	THIRD TERM

1 Aliyinza Aida Mary	Female	Primary Seven	Div III	Div II	Div III
2 Birungi Deborah	Female	Primary Six	28	18	23
3 Gimbo Eseza	Female	Top Class	6	6	6
4 Gwanyi Goerge	Male	Primary Three	13	13	13
5 Jachan Elijah	Male	Primary Two	27	24	31
6 Kaigo Valerie	Female	Primary Five	5	6	9
7 Kabosi Waali	Male	Primary Two	20	5	8
8 Kantono Anna Mary	Female	Primary Two	21	7	10
9 Kanyago Ruth	Female	Primary One	50	43	46
10 Logose Hope	Female	Primary One	19	5	5
11 Masano Joan	Female	Primary Three	57	48	22
12 Mbulamukungi Ambrose	Male	Primary Five	52	54	44
13 Mugole Timothy	Male	Primary Four	2	2	1
14 Mwane Joseph	Male	Senior One	23	13	7
15 Nagawa Yvon	Female	Baby Class	26	24	31
16 Naisonga Perusi	Female	Primary Three	74	55	22
17 Nakirya Zipola	Female	Primary Three	135	130	87
18 Namba David	Male	Primary One	129	122	98
19 Namba Johna	Male	Primary Three	4	4	3
20 Namugosa Magret	Female	Primary Four	35	52	21
21 Nantulya Francis	Male	Primary One	21	24	27
20 Nasio Rehema	Female	Primary Five	70	63	61
22 Nasiyo Sarah	Female	Primary Five	7	36	21
23 Naula Esther	Female	Primary Four	21	14	19
24 Nsiimire Delight	Male	Primary One	18	15	9
25 Nsiimire Desire	Male	Primary One	39	26	29
26 Ochieng Brian	Male	Year one at University
27 Oluku Simon Peter	Male	Primary Seven	Div IV	Div III	Div IV
28 Pius Edgar Puisi	Male	Senior Two	25	21	16
29 Pulisi Amosi	Male	Primary Six	11	10	19
30 Stella Anna Mary	Female	Primary Seven	Div III	Div III	Div II
31 Tusiime Philip	Male	Senior Three	17	19	8
32 Wandera Eridad	Male	Primary Six	Div IV	Div III	Div II

NB: Div – Division

Div I = Very good, Div II = Good, Div III = Fair, Div IV = Poor

Note: Pre primary children are not positioned; they use a different system of evaluation where the performance in a particular subject is either Bad, Fair, good, very good, or Excellent.

Although majority of them have greatly improved and others maintained, others have also declined and as part of our project we will ensure that we encourage them, inspire them as well as try to find out the obstacles standing in their way of performing better.

The parents and guardians on the other hand, of majority of the OVC have shown tremendous support for the growth and development of Birds of a Feather project. We shall not go without noting the fatal illness of one of our OVC Kantono Josephine a primary one pupil who had to be operated upon resulted into her absenteeism from school for the last two terms of the year. We pray and hope that she gets better. On a more, on the 28^th of December 2014, we lost one of our children Naimali Brenda. She was in primary five. According to her parent, she was epileptic and it was the cause of her untimely death.

However, like any other project, we faced some challenges which we hope to overcome over time to ensure the growth of BOF and realization of our vision and goals

The funds have not enabled us reach out to all the 55 children we took up fully especially in terms of scholastic materials

We have been challenged by the hasty parents who do not value Education. They are adamant to take children to school and feed them with a lot of negativity about education, and how important Education is, and how children will never be able to perform. This has demoralized some of our children leading to dropouts.

Relocation without notice; some parents have relocated along with the children without notice or contact; this makes it hard for us to follow up on the children later on sponsor them.