The Kirongo Project has a well established and academically successful nursery / starter school for local children and orphans. It has doubled in size over the past 4 years from an average of 50 children to 140 in 2006. Until 2005 this growth was achieved in one large, basic room with just 2 teachers and a large adjacent tree!

A basic breakfast is provided daily on account of the high proportion of orphans attending the nursery. Because of its academic success, today in 2006 it is now a primary feeder school with 3 classrooms and 3 teachers plus, of course, the large tree!

The teaching is carried out by the widows or by paying a token wage to one of the more learned young women, sometimes periodically backed up by older students who undertake practical on-the-job training.

The running of Nursery / Starter Schools is very good for building a real sense of team, community and interdependence as people share their collective burdens between food production, craft production for income, and the education of their children. At the present time a total of approximately 500 children are being taught in the 9 nurseries, each overseen by its own management committee.