Trinity College Nabbingo (TRICONA) old girls’ association is in a campaign drive to set up a junior school ahead of their platinum jubilee celebrations slated for June this year.
On January 7, the alumnae had a fundraising platinum dinner dance at Imperial Royale Hotel, Kampala where renowned old girls of the famous all-girls school were reunited.
These included Electoral Commissioner Hajjat Aisha Lubega, Assistant Inspector General of Police (welfare) Elizabeth Muwanga, former journalist and activist Sheila Kawamara and Dr Florence Akiiki Asiimwe of Makerere University, among other friends of the school that graced the function.
According to the president of the old girls’ association, Christine Ikiria Ssepuuya, the move was initiated to duplicate the charity work of the canonized sisters and the White Fathers who started the school way back in 1942.
“TRICONA as it prepares to celebrate the 75th anniversary, is among the few pioneer schools that don’t have feeder schools. The head teacher [argued] that a lot of time is always wasted trying to deal with students from diverse backgrounds to match the standard of this college; so, it is time we gave back to our school that made us who we are by setting up a feeder school,” Ssepuuya said.
Schools such as Gayaza High, Mt St Mary’s College Namagunga and King’s College Budo have maintained their impeccable academic standard in part due to having their own feeder schools of Gayaza Junior, Namagunga Junior and Budo Junior, respectively.
Other highflying traditional schools in TRICONA’s league such as Namilyango College and Kibuli SS, also have feeder schools where their core traditions and standards are ingrained.
Ssepuuya said the project will cost Shs 7bn but so far they have received about Shs 18m and “we have already acquired land in Nabbingo and we are also done with the architectural designs”.
At the dinner, about Shs 260m was raised. Alumna Veronicah Namagembe, the Managing director, Pride Microfinance Limited, asked the girls whose history is uniquely coloured by the green grounds and dormitories of Trinity College Nabbingo, to donate generously towards the project.
“Trinity College Nabbingo is our alma mater. It made us the important people that we are. This is our time to give back to it,” she said.
At the crowning of the event, the ‘girls’ danced to the tunes of old music that brought back memories of ‘sosh’ and many of them looked excited to meet their school friends after decades.
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