Connecting 1500 students at the Good Samaritan High School

 
 
Students at the Good Samaritan High School with Big Box and Lenovo laptops

Organisation: Good Samaritan High School

Location: Near Kampala, Uganda

Status: live

Sector: Education

Deployed: July 2022

The Good Samaritan School in Kampala, Uganda supports over 1500 students across its primary and secondary school. Students are typically from particularly disadvantaged backgrounds in the surrounding community.

The internet box has solved a problem that we have been dealing with for years, both students and teachers are super excited about this. The students can now access the internet in the computer lab, teachers can access the internet for their research and we also have access in the library
— Joshua, Project Manager at the Good Samaritan Ministries, Uganda

When the Good Samaritan School approached Jangala in 2021, they had a computer library to equip their students with digital skills to build their employability, but no Wi-Fi to make the most of these devices.

In early 2022, Jangala sent the school a Big Box, which included two of our latest features to help partners use and improve the Wi-Fi efficiently: our recently launched User Interface which helps partners understand their Wi-Fi experience in real-time; and dual modems, so partners can harness the power of multiple SIM cards to deliver  improved connection speeds.

Internet access for the school, which includes an additional, separate network for the teachers, has meant that the scope of the digital skills classes taught has been expanded to cover the latest online learning and resources.

 
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