Bugiri District, Uganda
Changing the Future for Vulnerable Children in Uganda
Through Christ-centered education, compassionate care, healthcare, and discipleship, we are helping vulnerable children discover hope, dignity, and a future through Jesus Christ.
A Christian 501(c)(3) public charity working alongside Ugandan believers in Bugiri — building for the long term, not for a news cycle.
Living Springs Global Fellowship exists to glorify Jesus Christ by changing the future for vulnerable children in Uganda through Christ-centered education, compassionate care, healthcare, discipleship, and sustainable community development.
The BugiriSchool Project
Living Springs Global Fellowship is partnering with a local Christian organization in Bugiri, Uganda to build a boarding school serving vulnerable children currently living in the Bugiri Children's Centre, as well as qualified children throughout the surrounding community.
The goal is an excellent standard of Christian education — the kind of school a Ugandan family would choose on merit — paired with the safety, nutrition, healthcare and discipleship that make learning possible.
Explore the projectWhy a boarding school
- Learning needs stability
- Children already living at the Bugiri Children's Centre need somewhere to be all year, not only during school hours. Boarding keeps education, housing and care under one commitment instead of three fragile ones.
- Distance is a real barrier
- Qualified children from surrounding villages can be a long walk from any good school. Boarding removes the daily journey as a reason a bright child stops attending.
- Care and teaching reinforce each other
- Consistent meals, health, protection and discipleship are not extras bolted onto a school day — they are the conditions that let a child concentrate, stay enrolled, and finish.
How the campus comes together
- Phase 01
Site and foundations
Securing and preparing the land the campus will be built on.
Progress update coming from the field
- Phase 02
Classrooms
The teaching blocks — the first buildings a student will actually learn in.
Progress update coming from the field
- Phase 03
Boarding and care
Dormitories, a dining hall, clean water, and safe sanitation.
Progress update coming from the field
- Phase 04
Clinic and community
A planned medical clinic serving both the school and the surrounding community.
Progress update coming from the field
Project at a glance
- Planned capacity
- Awaiting confirmation
- Total project cost
- Awaiting confirmation
- Construction stage
- Awaiting field report
- Target opening
- Awaiting confirmation
We publish capacity, cost and timeline only once they are confirmed by the team in Uganda. Numbers that move a donor to give should be numbers we can stand behind.
The school is being built with a Ugandan Christian organization that was serving Bugiri long before Living Springs arrived and will be serving it long after any visiting team goes home. Local leadership decides what is needed; partnership abroad helps make it possible.
Five things that have to be true before a child can think about the future.
None of these work alone. A school without meals empties out; meals without teaching change nothing; teaching without safety does not last. The reason the Bugiri project is a boarding school rather than a classroom block is that it has to hold all of them at once.
- 01
A place to belong
A bed, three meals, and adults who know their name. Before anything can be taught, a child has to be able to stop worrying about tomorrow.
- 02
An education worth having
Real teaching from qualified teachers, in a language and standard that opens the door to secondary school rather than quietly closing it.
- 03
Health and protection
Care when they are sick, clean water, and clear safeguarding — so that illness or harm does not end a child's schooling.
- 04
Faith and character
Discipleship offered honestly and without coercion, alongside the ordinary formation of character that any good school hopes for.
- 05
A future they choose
Secondary school, a trade, a university place, a business. The point is not that a child is rescued — it is that a child gets to decide.
All five, for one child, for years at a time.
That is what long-term partnership pays for — and why regular giving matters more than a one-off appeal.
Support the School
We would rather show you nothing than show you a guess.
Living Springs Global Fellowship is early in its work in Bugiri. Rather than publish estimates that look impressive, we are waiting for figures we can stand behind, reported from the field. They will appear here — with the date they were counted — as soon as they are confirmed.
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- Children served
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- Schools planned
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- Communities reached
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- Church partnerships
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- Volunteers
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One gospel, five ways it takes root in a community.
These are not five separate programmes competing for attention. They are what it takes for a school to actually change a community — and education is where the effort is concentrated right now.
Children's Care
ActiveSafe housing, nutrition, protection, and daily care.
Healthcare
PlannedA planned clinic, and training for local health workers.
Church & Fellowship
ActiveChurch planting, discipleship, and leadership training.
Business Development
ActiveEnterprise, vocational skills, agriculture, and stewardship.
“Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.”
Faces, places, and the work in progress.
The photographs on this site are stand-in images while we gather approved photography from Bugiri. They do not show the children, staff, or campus described here.
Voices, when they are real
We have not published any quotations yet, because we have not collected any we can attribute to a real person who agreed to be named. Testimony about children's lives should meet a higher standard than marketing copy, so these places are being held open.
The first voice on this page should belong to someone Ugandan — a leader from the partner organization describing the work in their own words, not ours.
Our partner in BugiriAwaiting a real voice A congregation walking with this work will be able to say what partnership has actually involved, including the parts that were hard.
A partner churchAwaiting a real voice Someone who gives regularly, on why they chose this and what they have seen since.
A supporterAwaiting a real voice
Become a long-term partner in a child's future.
Nobody here is being rescued. Ugandan believers are building this school in their own community; partnership from abroad helps pay for it and prays for it. That distinction matters, and we intend to keep it.
Support the School
Give once, or partner monthly. Regular giving is what lets a school plan past the current term — it funds teachers and meals, not just bricks.
Become a Church Partner
A partner congregation commits to a Ugandan church and the school together — prayer, teaching exchange, shared mission, and giving that lasts longer than one appeal.
Start a conversationBusiness Sponsorship
Companies can underwrite a defined part of the build or a vocational programme, and receive straightforward reporting on where the money went.
Request detailsVolunteer
Skills that genuinely help: construction and trades, teaching and curriculum, medicine and nursing, accounting, design, and administration — from Uganda or from home.
Tell us what you doMission Trips
Travel to Bugiri to work alongside local believers under their direction. Trips are built around what the partner organization asks for, not around what visitors would enjoy.
Ask about upcoming tripsPray
Specific, current requests from Bugiri — for children, staff, the build, and the partner church — sent to people who will actually pray them.
Join the prayer list
Help build the school
The Bugiri School Project is being built by Ugandan believers in their own community. Partnership from abroad helps pay for it, prays for it, and stays with it.