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Crucially, Shalom is a community school and a resource for the whole of Teso by providing:

• courses, seminars and workshops for adults who have missed out on completing their education
• in-service training for teachers from other schools
• quality, affordable medical facilities in the Health Centre open to the local community who have no clinic at present
• employment for people from the local community
• a community church at the centre of the school
• a conservation tourism project
• development of the nearby trading centre of Kapir
• improved agricultural methods

When completed, Shalom School will provide full time boarding education for 1680 girls and boys in inspiring, sustainable buildings designed by architect Marion Regitko. The buildings and layout will give a sense of traditional communities with a family atmosphere, helped by having comparatively small classes of only 40 students and small dormitories with only eight children from different classes in each. There will be 100 three-bedroomed family houses for staff.

The full time education provided by Shalom will span 10 years, offering:

• primary education for four years from P4 to P7 (leading to PLE exams)
• secondary education for four years from S1-S4 (leading to UCE ‘O’ level exams)
• further secondary education for two years from S5-S6 (leading to UNEB ‘A’ level exams)
• post-primary vocational skill-based courses for three years from JT1-JT3 (technical exams)
• post-‘O’ level vocational skill-based courses for two years (leading to Craft 1 exams)
• further vocational skill-based courses for one year (leading to Craft 2/certificate exams)
• higher vocational skill-based courses for two years (leading to Diploma exams)
• appropriate education, facilities and support for 40 teenage girls and their babies who have been forced into pregnancy

The vocational skill-based courses will include:

• tailoring, fashion and textiles
• catering and hotel management
• carpentry and joinery
• plumbing
• metalwork
• motor mechanics
• electrical installation and electronics
• bricklaying and concrete practice

Workshops, courses and seminars for adults will include:

• literacy and numeracy
• trade skills and crafts
• computing
• parenting skills and family relationships
• sports and games
• setting up and running small businesses, marketing
• accounting
• child care and nutrition
• hygiene and health care
• counselling training
• sustainability and alternative technologies
• improved organic agricultural methods
• in-service training for teachers from other schools
• prayer and Bible study
• some academic subjects
• conservation

Outreach programmes

Shalom will also be able to run outreach programmes all over Teso, bringing learning opportunities and support to an even wider range of people who cannot leave their homes to come to Shalom School for workshops and courses. Shalom staff, students and other qualified people will facilitate such programmes which will cover many of the above topics.