In 1999, Jean McBride wrote to the Bishop of Kitgum Diocese in Northern Uganda, saying that she wanted to send some money to start a nursery school in memory of her mother and Daisy Barnet. He replied, describing a primitive school of 4 classrooms built of hand-made brick and a tin roof. They moved 80 children in from their Sunday school and employed 4 teachers, two cooks, a caregiver and a janitor.

In the years since, thanks to the help Jean, St. Faith's ACW, Andrea Kirkham and others, we have managed to help build 6 more school rooms, an office and a store. Two large rooms were built by Oxfam to sleep the more than 300 children who walk in every night from surrounding villages, seeking refuge from the “liberation army.” Now the school has 593 children enrolled in 8 grades. They are fed one meal every day. Their principal is a woman and an Anglican Priest. Some rooms have been plastered inside and out and now have windows and doors.. Some rooms, but not all, have desks, electricity and floors.

There is a need for a kitchen, better latrine management, a clean water supply, and better salaries for the teachers. The property needs fencing for personal security and protection of property. The diocese would also like to build more schoolrooms, but in order to do this they will have to buy more land.