Education into the Future
Education sponsorships by Bantu e.V. in Uganda: helping children and young people enter education, continue learning and pursue their ambitions.
Why education sponsorships
If you grew up knowing that you would go to school, take a moment to consider what that certainty made possible.
You could develop interests, gain qualifications and imagine a future beyond your immediate circumstances. Perhaps your family made considerable sacrifices. Perhaps public services, scholarships or other people’s support helped you along the way.
For many children, that certainty is still missing. A family may value education deeply and still be unable to afford the next school term. A deaf child may have a school nearby but no access to teaching in a language they understand. A girl may struggle to attend because she lacks menstrual products, water or a private, accessible toilet. A young person who becomes a parent may face childcare responsibilities, financial hardship and exclusion from school.
These barriers can interrupt an education before a learner has had a fair opportunity to begin.
Bantu e.V., together with Anchored Bridges Initiatives (ABI) and education partners in Uganda, is working to make that opportunity possible. We invite you to help.
- Local partner
- Anchored Bridges Initiatives (ABI), Kampala, working together since 2021
- Country
- Uganda
- Education stages
- Early childhood, accessible learning, secondary school, vocational training
- Your contribution
- from 25 EUR a month, donation receipt included
A real opportunity to participate
A school place becomes meaningful when a learner can reach it, afford to attend, communicate, participate and continue learning safely. Financial support must work alongside disability accessibility, appropriate teaching, personal safety and support for the circumstances that affect attendance.
One learner may need tuition support. Another may also need transport, boarding, accessible materials or communication support. A learner returning after pregnancy or early parenthood may need a different combination of assistance. Working with local partners, families and learners, we direct support where it makes a practical difference.
What is preventing this learner from accessing education, and what support would help remove that barrier?
Support through important education stages
Our sponsorship programme connects support at several stages, from early childhood to secondary education and vocational training. It aims to help learners enter education and navigate the transitions at which financial and other barriers can interrupt their progress.
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An early start at Pearl Kindergarten Kampala
Through Pearl Kindergarten Kampala, we support access to early learning for children from low-income families. Sponsorship can help sustain fee-free places for families unable to contribute, alongside learning materials, meals and appropriate support. It also protects access beyond the initial funded period, when even modest fees may remain unaffordable.
Partner: Pearl Kindergarten Kampala (project P 26/230)
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Accessible learning for deaf children and children with disabilities
Through the Rwera Unit for the Deaf and the Uganda School for the Deaf, sponsorship can help meet the costs of education, boarding where appropriate, and individual learning support. Participation requires accessible communication, suitable teaching, learning materials and a safe environment. Support responds to the learner’s needs and involves their family or caregivers.
Partners: Rwera Unit for the Deaf, Uganda School for the Deaf
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Continuity through secondary school
Moving from primary to secondary education can bring costs that families cannot meet. Royal College Namugongo has offered a 30 % tuition reduction for eligible sponsored learners. Our fundraising seeks to cover the remaining 70 % of tuition together with other agreed education costs: the school contributes through reduced tuition, sponsors close the remaining gap.
30 % tuition reduction by the school
Partner: Royal College Namugongo
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Further learning and professional skills
For older learners, the programme includes pathways into technical training, nursing and midwifery. Entebbe Atuwanguza Memorial School and Lyantonde School of Nursing and Midwifery have offered 30 % partial scholarships under agreed terms; technical training options include Nakawa Vocational Training College. These pathways open up recognised qualifications, further study, work and greater independence.
30 % partial scholarships by the schools
Partners: Entebbe Atuwanguza Memorial School, Lyantonde School of Nursing and Midwifery, Nakawa Vocational Training College
Partner contributions, eligibility and available places are confirmed in writing for each support plan before it starts. A tuition reduction does not automatically cover meals, transport, boarding or examination fees.
Addressing barriers beyond tuition
We are strengthening the programme’s capacity to respond to the circumstances that keep learners away from education. Our funding priorities:
The full cost of participation
Essential materials, examination fees, transport, meals or boarding, according to assessed need.
Disability accessibility
Communication support, accessible materials and practical adjustments that enable participation.
Menstrual health and dignity
Appropriate products, information and access to safe, private and accessible sanitation.
Continuation and return to education
Support for pregnant learners and young parents, developed with local partners and responsive to childcare and other responsibilities.
Continuity during hardship
Timely assistance when an unexpected financial difficulty puts an existing education at risk.
How a sponsorship works
You choose
An amount and a rhythm: 25, 40 or 70 EUR per payment, monthly, quarterly, annually or as a one-off gift, or an amount of your own. Plus an education stage, or you let us direct your contribution to where it is needed most.
We confirm
Within a few days we get back to you, confirm the sponsorship and send you the bank details for your transfer or standing order. No direct debit mandate is given.
You stay informed
You receive a donation receipt for the tax office and, at least once a year, a report on the programme and the stage you support.
Guide values per month
- 25 EURa place in early childhood or primary and accessible education300 EUR a year
- 40 EURa secondary school place480 EUR a year
- 70 EURa vocational, nursing or midwifery place840 EUR a year
Actual costs differ between learners and institutions and are confirmed for each support plan. Contributions are pooled for each stage so that a learner’s place does not depend on a single payment arriving on time. Bantu e.V. is a registered charity.
Selection, support and responsibility
How learners are selected
Anchored Bridges Initiatives (ABI) and the partner schools propose learners whose education is at risk for financial, disability-related or social reasons. Priority is given to children with disabilities, girls, pregnant learners and young parents, and families without a regular income. ABI assesses each proposal together with the learner and the family and records what is needed beyond tuition.
Decided together, reviewed every year
Bantu e.V. and ABI decide together on each support plan. Plans are reviewed before every school year and adjusted when a learner’s circumstances change, so that an interruption does not end the education.
Responsibilities and payments
Bantu e.V. receives contributions in Germany, issues donation receipts and keeps the programme accounts. ABI coordinates with the schools and families in Uganda, checks invoices and confirms attendance. Fees are paid against invoices from the institution, and every payment is documented with receipts, as in our funded projects.
What we have already achieved with our partners
The sponsorship programme builds on projects Bantu e.V. and ABI have carried out together since 2021. All figures come from our project and annual reports.
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Royal College and Royal Junior Namugongo
With funds raised by pupils of the Wilhelm-Remy-Gymnasium Bendorf (Aktion Tagwerk 2017), ABI covered the school fees of six pupils and built access ramps. All six completed primary school and moved on to secondary school.
See the project: Royal College and Royal Junior Namugongo - 18graduates
Msingi School, Mbarara (P 24/200)
In 2024/25, 18 young women completed a 24-week hairdressing and cosmetology training; all 18 passed their final examinations and seven were hired straight away by their placement salons.
See the project: Msingi School, Mbarara (P 24/200) - 225people in IT courses
Ruhaama Community Resource Centre (P 21/23, P 22/29)
225 people took IT courses, 175 of them with a certificate, and 350 pupils received tutoring.
See the project: Ruhaama Community Resource Centre (P 21/23, P 22/29) - 2026kindergarten opens
Pearl Kindergarten Kampala (P 26/230)
Since October 2026 we have been setting up a Montessori kindergarten in Namuwongo with ABI, funded by Stiftung Nord-Süd-Brücken with funds from the BMZ. Sponsorships will sustain fee-free places once the funded start-up phase ends.
See the project: Pearl Kindergarten Kampala (P 26/230)
Reporting, privacy and protection
Reports to sponsors
You receive a written update on the programme and the stage you support at least once a year, with figures on attendance, continuation and expenditure. Bantu e.V. publishes an annual report and a transparency report every year and is a member of the Transparent Civil Society Initiative.
Our annual and transparency reportsProtecting learners
Learners’ names, stories and photographs are shared only with informed consent, and children are never shown identifiably without their parents’ consent. Personal data is used solely to administer the support. Questions and complaints can be addressed at any time to info@bantu-ev.org.
Help make the next school term possible.
Help a learner continue. Help a young person take the next step towards the future they choose.
If education helped you build the life you have today, you understand its lasting value. You can take on a regular sponsorship, fund an agreed period of education, or talk to us about a larger commitment for several learners or an accessibility priority. Every arrangement protects learners’ dignity, privacy and voice.
Our work contributes to Sustainable Development Goal 4: quality education for all.
Thank you for your sponsorship request!
We will get back to you within a few days, confirm the sponsorship and send you our bank details. Your reference:
Your details
Questions about sponsorship? info@bantu-ev.org · +49 176 34213765