Scholarship Fund Program
In 2000, the Lake Bunyonyi Development Company started a scholarship fund at Mugyera Senior Secondary School. The program supports four students from each class each term, based on academic excellence: the top three students (male or female) and the highest girl not in the top three.
With support from friends in Canada and revenues from Bushara Island Camp, students are being rewarded for their hard effort and the headmaster of the school says the competition has resulted in an overall improvement of the academic standings.
We wish the students all success and we encourage individuals interested in the scholarship program to contact us for further discussions on how they can assist in raising the academic standards on Lake Bunyonyi.
Sponsorship Fund Program
In 2006, The LBDC started a sponsorship fund at Lake Bunyonyi Senior Secondary School. Unlike the scholarship fund at Mugyera, this fund is awarded to students who are most in need, students who would not otherwise have been able to attend school at all. They are selected by the headmaster and teachers as well as the management of LBDC who know the students personally.
All of the funds for this sponsorship program have been donated by friends in Canada and in the first year have been enough to fully sponsor 15 students.
We hope this program will continue for years to come, but for now its success depends solely on donors continuing to support this program.
We welcome anyone interested to participate in sponsoring a student. Sponsors will receive a hand-written letter from their student along with a photocopy of their term report three times a year.