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When trying to decide where to send your hard-earned money where it will do the most good, you want to ensure that the need is real, legitimate, and that your money is going where it is intended and not being used to pay for trinkets, T-shirts, advertising materials, or salaries of board members and other supporting organizations.
The Holy Trinity Association is run by unpaid volunteers. We do not send out trinkets or pay large advertising firms to keep their people employed with your money. We provide your kind donation to the people who need it the most. No middlemen.
We have vetted the recipients of your funds and receive pictures, videos, newsletters, emails, and personal handwritten letters of gratitude from the people receiving this sorely needed support as proof that your generous donations are used wisely and as intended.
Below are some pictures and videos of things we have accomplished.
Late Summer 2025:
First, we want to show you the dramatic improvement you have brought into the lives of children in rural Uganda over the past 7-8 years. Because of your kind and generous support through the Holy Trinity Association to the Micindo Mistellbach Millennium (3M) School, these children now have so much more hope and love for Jesus. Please compare our Appeal Video on our Home page with the video directly below. The pre-school and elementary section of the 3M school is called St. Augustine school and they put this together with their teachers. The words for the video are below.
First, we want to show you the dramatic improvement you have brought into the lives of children in rural Uganda over the past 7-8 years. Because of your kind and generous support through the Holy Trinity Association to the Micindo Mistellbach Millennium (3M) School, these children now have so much more hope and love for Jesus. Please compare our Appeal Video on our Home page with the video directly below. The pre-school and elementary section of the 3M school is called St. Augustine school and they put this together with their teachers. The words for the video are below.
Chorus: St. Augustine Nursery and Primary School
I love my mother school is moving forward because of you
St. Augustine nursery primary school We thank you all directors
Also my mother school Our head teacher, may God bless you
I’ll never forget you, St. Augustine Our lovely teachers we thank you all
Non-teaching staff, we love you all
Verses: Our dear parents, we love you all
St Augustine Nursery and Primary School Religious leaders, may God bless you
Is a God fearing school oh Government leaders, we thank you
It's a hard working school Other well-wishers we salute you
Academic excellence is number one St. Augustine will shine because of you
Our school motto "*Rise and shine with love and leadership"* Let's work together for a better tomorrow
Our school was started in 2018
By Fr. Mugarura Augustine with Sr Gloria Amanya oh (Chorus)
May God bless you wherever you are!
I'll always serve you my lovely school
We thank Lord God Almighty St. Augustine my mother school
Our school is growing because of you I'll always love you my mother school
Our school was started by your Mercy St. Augustine my model school
By your Grace we're moving forward ....my lovely school
We thank you Lord , We praise you ....my mother school
We pray for your blessings forever ....my model school
We thank you Lord, we praise you ....my shining school (X2)
Our Patron saint! Pray for us!
(Chorus)
I love my mother school is moving forward because of you
St. Augustine nursery primary school We thank you all directors
Also my mother school Our head teacher, may God bless you
I’ll never forget you, St. Augustine Our lovely teachers we thank you all
Non-teaching staff, we love you all
Verses: Our dear parents, we love you all
St Augustine Nursery and Primary School Religious leaders, may God bless you
Is a God fearing school oh Government leaders, we thank you
It's a hard working school Other well-wishers we salute you
Academic excellence is number one St. Augustine will shine because of you
Our school motto "*Rise and shine with love and leadership"* Let's work together for a better tomorrow
Our school was started in 2018
By Fr. Mugarura Augustine with Sr Gloria Amanya oh (Chorus)
May God bless you wherever you are!
I'll always serve you my lovely school
We thank Lord God Almighty St. Augustine my mother school
Our school is growing because of you I'll always love you my mother school
Our school was started by your Mercy St. Augustine my model school
By your Grace we're moving forward ....my lovely school
We thank you Lord , We praise you ....my mother school
We pray for your blessings forever ....my model school
We thank you Lord, we praise you ....my shining school (X2)
Our Patron saint! Pray for us!
(Chorus)
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These are pictures of a field trip by some 3M students to the mines and lakes region.
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The pictures below are 3M high school students giving speeches to fellow classmates as they run for student council positions! We have come so far thanks to your prayers and support.
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(Below) Here is Fr. Augustine with some children from St. Augustine School.
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(Below) Sister overseeing dormitory construction efforts at the Mulago School. No slackers while the nuns are near!
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(Top) Here is Fr. Augustine with some of the St. Augustine School teachers. (Right) Finishing septic and tiling walls for visiting teacher latrine.
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We were able to buy 500 bags of cement to finish walls, floors and plaster for the new Mulago dormitory. Shown here is loading cement onto truck for one of many trips and the making of concrete blocks.
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The four pictures below show the roof rafters going up on the Mulago school dormitory, the finished roof and the doors and windows ready to have the steel window and door frames installed. We can build structures at a fraction of the cost as in the U.S. so your donation dollars go so much further here!
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Early 2025: The pictures below begin with some videos of thankful children attending the Mulago School.
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The pictures below show the renovations for the 3M head teacher's quarters including new plumbing and deluxe bathroom with shower.
The pictures below show the wood boards we were able to obtain by harvesting trees near the 3M school. The boards were used to make benches, doors, and desks for use in classrooms and in teacher's quarters.
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Repairing the kitchen kettle stand at 3M school.
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Below shows pictures of working on the 3M teacher's quarters, now about complete.
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Below shows the hard work being done to support the Mulago School. They must acquire and bring in raw materials to build a badly needed dormitory for the children to live during the week as they live too far to walk to class each day. This is a big commitment, but one that the parents are willing to support for the betterment of the lives of their children. The first pictures show the plastering of the walls in small rooms to make a makeshift dormitory until a permanent one can be made. Besides collecting and delivering materials from far away, you can see the pictures of the foundation being setup, made of stone and clay.
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Late 2024: The pictures below show the new school minivan we were able to purchase as our original minivan was in high demand and becoming more unreliable. We also completed the Canokela School visiting teachers' kitchen and pit latrine which brought much joy to our teachers who come from far away. The visiting teacher staff house should be finished by the end of Jan 2025. We bring in much sand from far away for the making of concrete blocks used for construction of our buildings.
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These are the results of the 2024 Uganda National Standardized test scores in descending order for the Kamwenge District. You can see that our Micindo Mistelbach Millennium School is in 4th out of 20 high schools in the region. What a great accomplishment thanks to your help!
Below are several pictures and videos of the building of the teacher's 4 room residence and outdoor kitchen during the Summer of 2024.
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Summer 2024: The pictures and videos that follow show the difficulty in obtaining building material. School buildings to date were made from mud bricks that were fired outdoors in a wood burning kiln to harden them. However, wood for burning is in short supply and must be saved for cooking. Therefore, future buildings must be built of concrete blocks made of concrete and sand. Unfortunately, concrete is more expensive and sand is only available from further away so school parents and villagers travel a long distance to help bring sand to the school building site where the concrete blocks are then made.
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Videos, narrated by Father Augustine, from early 2024 of making bricks from clay and collecting rocks and sand to use in the construction of the teachers' residence. A lot of manpower and no machines other than pickup truck. In the last video you can see that they must make a trail through the fields for the truck to drive to get the stones. Some days they did not get back to the school until after midnight and often the loaded truck had to have a tire repaired or radiator constantly filled with water every 2 kilometers. They do not take their school for granted and work hard to get a good education and to grow in faith.
This is a picture of the electrification plan for bringing power to the Micindo Mistellbach Millennium school provided to us by the Ministry of Energy. This plan is currently the fifth priority project for the local government to accomplish.
These six pictures show some of the preschool, elementary, and high school students this year (2023).
These pictures from 2023 show the new 4 block classroom being built from making bricks to putting on the roof to finishing the outside.
The 12 pictures below from 2022 show the new boarding facility for the school and some pictures of students and parent meetings held at the school.
Clean water from our repaired well ! Much better than walking 3/4 mile to the dirty stream to fill our 5 gal cans.
The ten pictures below show the construction of three new adjoining classrooms in Spring-Summer 2022 for some of our younger students. Now they can have classes indoors instead of under trees outside on the ground. Your kind donations are helping to make this happen.
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Prayer service of Thanksgiving for kind donations received through the U.S. Holy Trinity Association.
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School Board of Governors
Below 6 pictures are water pump repairs and new water pipe trenches being dug in late 2021
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Above 3 pictures show bricks made for Multipurpose Hall and the outside and inside of unfinished buildings
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Above 3 pictures show minimal solar panels installed to provide light and minimal electricity for teachers housing. We are trying to get tied into regional electric power, but we need additional funding to do so.
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Above 3 pictures show the school van and some of the parts needing replacing and Sister Glory behind the wheel. The rural location and rough roads are hard on vehicles, but transportation is a necessity. The van was donated by a U.S. family. A 17-passenger van would be ideal, but the $112,000 cost is much more than we can handle alone.
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Students showing thank you letters they sent us, donated uniforms and balls, and outside an unfinished classroom
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Nuns providing school leadership, students attending Mass in the church building, and the front gate of the school