School helps school

The fact that the HOREMI school was completed in time for the start of the 2024 school year and can now get started is nothing short of a minor miracle. Over 900 pupils from Stuttgart’s Geschwister-Scholl-Gymna­sium made a signif­i­cant contri­bu­tion to this. They financed almost the entire corru­gated iron school roof with their dona­tion of 3,000 euros! The pupils raised all the money them­selves during a simu­la­tion game in which they trans­formed their school into a state complete with parlia­ment, ministries and over 100 compa­nies — from restau­rants to photo studios. And this state obvi­ously not only made good profits and managed its finances care­fully, but also took its social mission seri­ously.

This bene­fited other orga­ni­za­tions in addi­tion to HOREMI, and the project managers voted demo­c­ra­t­i­cally on the selec­tion of dona­tion recip­i­ents. Fortu­nately for HOREMI, one of the teachers found out about the school project and presented it to his “school govern­ment”. They imme­di­ately liked the idea of “school helps school”. Espe­cially as educa­tion is not some­thing that can be taken for granted by chil­dren in Uganda.

The joy at HOREMI and all its “friends” was corre­spond­ingly huge. A thou­sand thanks to the Geschwister-Scholl-Gymna­sium for this great campaign!