The Hair Salon at Nkuru Business Vocational Training College is open for business! Fully equipped to enable men’s and women’s hairdressing to take place, resident hairdresser Deborah is ready and waiting for the pre-Christmas rush to start. The salon’s first customer, who got a free hair treatment as a result,…
Nkuru Business and Vocational Training College has been up and running for almost 1 complete academic year now, and all is going very well. The college is pioneering some new ways of learning, particularly by Ugandan standards, utilising a Whole Brain Approach to teaching and learning, and also by giving…
A team of students and staff from St David’s College in North Wales recently spent some time at the Nkuru Business and Vocational Training College, and a good time was definitely had by all. The SDC team took out some laptops, pre-loaded with a CAD programme that will assist the…
June 4th 2018 – first day back of the new term, and not all the students had classes, but 11 were there of the 15 registered, and 4 of the staff i.e. the ones who had lessons to teach that day! Also open for the first college day was ‘Sophie’s…
Saturday March 3rd 2018 will forever be an auspicious date in the life of Nkuru-Nziza Foundation, because it was the day that the first intake of students and their parents attended the Orientation Day, to mark the opening of the Nkuru Business and Vocational Training College. Twelve students and their…
Godfrey is a 17yr old lad from Bakijjulula, the village in Mityana district where John’s dad lives, and where John is setting up the Vocational Training College (Nkuru BVTC). Education-wise he managed to complete his S4 exams, which are the equivalent to GCSE’s, but he didn’t continue on to A…
Jane was one of the first people to receive a loan from the Missing Link Microfinance project when it launched in the summer of 2016. Based out of the house of John’s dad, in Bakijjulula near Mityana, where the Nkuru Vocational Training College is now being developed, the microfinance scheme…
In February 2017, the first Dragon’s Den competition was held in Bakijjulula. Open to all microfinance scheme members, it was an opportunity for individuals to pitch an idea to the ‘dragons’ and hope to come away with a pot of money that they could use to make that idea a…
Round One of the Dragons Den 2018 competition for members of the NNF Missing Link Microfinance project saw 19 contestants each give a 5 minute pitch, outlining the proposal that they had come up to try and win a share of the pot of money available. There were three criteria…
One year ago the idea of this college hadn’t even been fully conceived – there were vague thoughts about something along the vocational-training lines, situated possibly at a location linked to one of the Nkuru-Nziza projects, but precise details were certainly not in existence. Now 12 months later, here we…
