Across the Lake

Even though all of the students from Christ’s Gift Academy have grown up on the shores of the second biggest freshwater lake in the world, most of them have never travelled across on it on a boat. On Friday, forty-four CGA students and ten teachers travelled by boat to Mfangano Island for the release of the results from a joint exam we did with the other top schools in the district. It was the first time many of them had been out on Lake Victoria. They really enjoyed the scenery and being able to look back and see their homes from a different perspective. The boat ride each way lasted about one and a half hours. They were busy telling stories to each other, pointing to landmarks they could recognize and singing songs.

Once reaching Mfangano, they were warmly greeted by the students of Gethsemane Academy, our sister school on the island. Similar to CGA, the school was created to give a quality Christian education to the orphans and help them break the cycle of poverty in their lives. During the release of the exam results, the highlight for CGA was being #1 in English for 6th Grade. Also, several individuals were honored.

6th Grade- Wendy was #2 overall in English and Esther Juma was the #3 girl overall out of over 200 students

8th Grade- Valary Macklago was #1 overall in Math and #5 girl overall out of over 200students. Adah Sharon was also in the top ten girls