Kibaale Community Schools

The Kibaale Community Schools are Christian schools in the Rakai District of Uganda. They are now primarily funded and administered by the Pacific Academy Outreach Society (PAOS) which is part of the Pacific Academy, a Christian school in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada.

They were originally started by Glad Tidings Church in Vancouver (a Pentecostal congregation), Canada and began its work in Uganda in 1960. Glad Tidings established a bible training centre and hundreds of community churches around this time period. However, during the tyrannical military dictatorship of Idi Amin, the economy collapsed, communication systems broke down, the cities and towns deteriorated and, in 1973, the church was driven underground. While the period was devastating and many people died, one of the positive experiences that came out of it was that the local people recognized that they had to provide their own leadership, carry out their own programs and not be dependent on outside leadership and resources.

The Gospel Mission to Uganda, which developed at this time, still feels a close kinship to their Canadian friends from Glad Tidings in Vancouver. In 1989 they approached Glad Tidings Church to participate with them in a program to help children whose parents had died of AIDS. Many children were desperately in need and had no one to look after them. The administrator of Glad Tidings, Rod Forrest, went to Uganda and spent some time in the Rakai District, met a number of local and government leaders and the Kibaale Children’s Centre was the founded afterwards. It has also a clinic for children. The centre had received assistance from agencies such as BC Save the Children’s Fund and Canadian International Development Agency as well as through the sponsorship program of World Vision. Glad Tidings also developed its own sponsorship program called International Child Care Fund (ICCF) which helped fund the program here for several years. There is now an ICCF (Netherlands) which sponsors some of the students in the school.

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