Marumba Christian School is a community school located in the village of Marumba which is three kilometres from the town of Rukungiri in Western Uganda. Marumba is a trading centre of about 100 people who live in very poor circumstances. Along with the poverty evident in the area there are ongoing challenges with the HIV-AIDS epidemic, single parent families and alcoholism.
The school was established in 2011 to help less privileged children attain a better quality of education and to gain spiritual values. This school hopes to meet the needs of the people in this area by providing them with an opportunity to gain a good education, a chance to move out from poverty and to have a brighter hope for the future. The school is doing well, although experiencing significant difficulties. There are 195 pupils in the school at present. After an increase in the school fees earlier this year the roll has reduced by 100 students from about 300. The school is also now subject to much higher compliance requirements and there are now eight new taxes on the school which were not there prior to the COVID-19 lockdown. The school was hugely affected by the Covid lockdown. The whole country ground to a halt for two years and no education was carried out. It is a real credit to the management of this school that it has been able to reopen.
