Ugandan Team

As any parent of a teenager knows, once that teenager is in high school, parental guidance is not enough. Teachers, counselors, club advisers, and coaches assist in the raising up and the education of each of those teenagers. Imagine a teenager you know leaving home to live at high school. The ChildrenUP family of students do just that. They leave whatever security they knew in their community, their family, and their friends in order to attain a secondary education. To guide and assist our students, ChildrenUP has incorporated an expert team to mentor the students.

The team oversee each student’s academic, social, emotional and financial situation. They meet with the students at the beginning of each term in a school year providing them with the school and personal supplies that they will need. In addition to this, they meet with the students to talk with them, check their course work and counsel the students. During these school campus visits, the student advocates meet with the in-school mentors and classroom teachers to keep abreast of the students needs and accomplishments. The staff handles payment of tuition and purchases supplies for each of the three terms and is available for emergency calls.

Student advocates reports are filed with ChildrenUP each trimester so that the board is aware of the progress and the needs of each student.

LEONARD ROSALYN

Leonard Rosalyn has been the office administrator for ChildrenUP since 2019. Rosalyn is a graduate of Gulu University with a diploma and certificate in Secretarial and Information Management. In 2023 she graduation with a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration.  

Prior to working with ChildrenUp, she worked with St. Josephine Bakhita Nursery & Primary School as an office assistant and with Acholi Ber Investment Ltd as a Front Desk Officer. This built her as an effective administrative Assistant and a vital link in the communications with ChildrenUP.

Oryem John Bosco

Oryem John Bosco started as an in school mentor in 2011 at St. Joseph’s College Layibi, later promoted as part time visiting mentor in 2019 and full time student mentor in 2020. Oryem John Bosco is now the Program Coordinator. He is a graduate teacher with a Postgraduate Diploma in Education from Gulu University and a Bachelor degree holder in philosophy from Pontifical Urban University of Rome – Jinja centre. He had a long experience of teaching at St. Joseph’s College Layibi for 10 years, a part time teacher at Sacred Heart Seminary Lacor for two years and a part time Headteacher at St. Teresa of Calcutta secondary school for three years. Besides teaching, he held responsibility as Patron of Church youth movements, Head of Department and a class master. He has background of major seminary formation for five years that nurtured him to develop love for youth development and formation from the youth apostolate experience in the parishes within Uganda and Zambia. He feels at home in the life of mentoring students in their human formation and academic achievement.

Atimango Rehema

Rehema graduated from Gulu University in 2018 with a bachelor degree in Education in the field of History and Christian Religious Education and majored in CRE. She received a post graduate Diploma in Project Planning and Management from the same institution.

Rehema worked as a child protection case worker with World Vision Uganda. She gave psychosocial support while monitoring children. She supported children with basic care, relief items and scholastic materials to enable them access to education.

Rehema taught at St. Joseph's College Layibi as a student teacher and in Kinyara Secondary School as a class room teacher. She provided guidance, counseling, teaching and evaluation of student's performance to help them excel academically.