Parents are fatigued with School fees loans procured to support the education of their children.
Now days, it has become a common norm and announcements run on both mainstream and social Medias where banks and money leaders call on parents to secure school fees loans to support education of their children because it has almost hard for the parents to pay school fees once or at the beginning of the school term.
This is a point of concern which demands Students to appreciate the hardship of their parents and concentrate on academic progress if they are to achieve their goal.
These were the words of Rev. Fr. Anold Jauyambe from the Holy Cross Congregation in Uganda during the Try Prayer Competition for Secondary Schools drawn from Kampala Archdiocese and Lugazi diocese while at the Holy Cross Family Ministries offices at St. Peter’ Nsambya Parish.
Most students tend to get destructed with unnecessary competition with fellow students, involve in drugs and substance abuse, wrongful entertainments among other things that are totally out of the academic progress, forgetting that their parents are procuring loans for their academics which sometimes lead them to lose their property on failing to service those loans.
Fr. Jauyambe also noted with concern the increasing consumption of pornography by the young ones that is leading them into illicit sexual relationships and behaviours that are unacceptable in the Catholic Church, Ugandan and most of the morally upright cultures and values.
He emphasized prayer life for the students to support their spirituality and also for the parents who are always faced with school fees pressures where most of them procure loans to educate their children only to end up losing their property.
This year’s Try Prayer Competition attracted 15 Secondary Schools where students competed in essay writing, Poem, music, Dance and Drama compositions on the theme; “Prayer a Pathway to Peace.”
Overall winners were Our Lady of Africa Senior Secondary School Namiryango with 259 points, followed by St. Kizito Senior Secondary School Bugoloobi with 238 points, in the third position was St. Joseph’s Senior Secondary School Nagalama with 203 points and Bishop Cipriano Kihangire Senior Secondary School Luzira- boarding in the 4th position.
The Director Holy Cross Family Ministries East Africa Fr. John Baptist Nsubuga reminded the school patrons, teachers and directors of their evangelization role if they are to contribute to a peaceful society by having generations that know, love and respect God, values and socially acceptable cultural practices in line with the social teaching of the Catholic Church.
By Francis Jjunju
14th June 2025
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