Ngobya Memorial Nursery and Primary School started in 2009 by Nakaggwa Matilda Annet who was raised in an impoverished family and really struggled to get educated but was able to acquire it through school dependence and help from religious sisters until she graduated as a midwife.

 

Matilda always had the spirit of the needy children living in a similar childhood like she lived which kept haunting her despite having had a job as a midwife. In 2009, she was wholly determined to start a primary school which would later have her aching desire catered for.

 

Off her little salary, she rented two commercial rooms in Nkoni Trading center and this is where the school really started with only 9 children and 2 teachers, one qualified and the other not qualified who worked as a team to manage all chores. The enrollment was humbly rising and at a later stage, we had to locate another place as this could not accommodate us anymore. The new location was also in Nkoni but with wider space and this attracted more students, a full primary was born.

 

She started looking both locally and internationally for generous people who could help her acquire some land at least to establish a permanent premise.

Her call was answered through Theresa Pilplod from Sweden who single-handedly bought the big land at Kagganda-Lwengo district where the school is situated.

 

In 2013, she caught up with another team of sponsor from Belgium headed by Jos Deforche who started with donating a school van and doing renovations and have funded the construction of the premises we have today like the studying block, two dormitories and teachers resident home.