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#REDIRECT [[List of Jesuit educational institutions]]
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'''Ocer Campion Jesuit College''' is a co-educational, boarding high school opened by the [[Jesuits]] in 2010 in war-torn northern [[Uganda]]. It accepts students from all parts of the country and envisions training leaders who can unite the country.
==Founding==
The school sits on 98.5 acres donated by a local family.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ocercampion.org/ThePlan.php|title=The Plan|website=ocercampion.org|access-date=2016-11-27}}</ref> It is envisaged that Ocer Campion will accommodate about 1200 students, in an area emerging from [[Lord's Resistance Army insurgency|20 years of war]]. Funds for the school have come from Jesuit headquarters in Rome and in East Africa, from Campion Alumni in [[Milwaukee]],<ref name="camp">{{Cite web|url=http://www.campionforever.org/newsletterfiles/1-13/OCER/OCER_Nov2012.html|title=OCER|website=www.campionforever.org|access-date=2016-11-27}}</ref> and from an [[American Schools and Hospitals Abroad]] grant.<ref>[https://www.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/documents/1866/2011%20USAID-ASHA-Annual%20Report.pdf ASHA, USAID. Accessed 1 April 2016.]</ref> Facilities include dormitories for boys and for girls and classroom buildings.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.jesuitmissions.ie/schools/ocer-campion-uganda|title=Ocer Campion, Uganda|website=www.jesuitmissions.ie|access-date=2016-11-27}}</ref> The school must be self-sufficient with [[solar-powered]] electricity. It also received help through a UNEP-inspired project for turning sewage into fresh water.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ecojesuit.com/turning-sewage-into-fresh-water-eco-ponds-at-ocer-campion-jesuit-college-uganda/1775/|title=Turning sewage into fresh water: Eco-ponds at Ocer Campion Jesuit College, Uganda {{!}} Ecology and Jesuits in Communication|website=www.ecojesuit.com|access-date=2016-11-27}}</ref> Students tend a farm that accommodates cattle, chickens, pigs, vegetables, grain, and an orchard, along with a pond for fish. There is also a library.<ref name=george/> Through visiting interns from the United States, health services are offered to the school and surrounding community.<ref>[http://www.kumc.edu/international-programs/outbound-programs/kumc-international-educational-experience/international-educational-experience-locations/uganda-son.html KUMedCenter. Accessed 1 May 2016.]</ref>

==Vision==
Many students have come from [[Internally displaced person|IDP]] camps where they roamed without discipline. The school offers a year of primary education to prepare students for high school. Transforming student behavior and forming character is an important goal of the school. Each teacher mentors about 10 students.
The school takes in students from the war-torn north of Uganda as well as from the south to create understanding and unify these different parts of society through "[[:sw:Ndugu|Ndugu/brotherhood]]". [[Colonialism]] divided the people but English now serves as a language that can unite them. Students of various clans and skin colors learn that they are much the same and can get along together. The ultimate goal of the school would be to train future leaders for the country who will be upright and shun corruption. The school's motto is "learn, love & serve."<ref name="george">{{Cite web|url=http://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/interviews/a-discussion-with-john-mary-kirangwa-dean-of-students-and-teacher-ocer-campion-jesuit-college-gulu-uganda|title=A Discussion with John Mary Kirangwa, Dean of Students and Teacher, OCER Campion Jesuit College, Gulu, Uganda|website=berkleycenter.georgetown.edu|access-date=2016-11-27}}</ref>
[[File:OCERStudents.png|center|800px]]
==Gallery==
{{Gallery|title=OCER Campion Jesuit College campus shots|width=280 |height=150|File:OCERWiseWomen.png|Environmental group meeting on campus|File:Ocer_campus.png|Overview of campus}}

==See also==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzbhWJZCcj4 UTube.]
*[http://aloyo.org/ocer/videos.asp Aloyo.]

==References==
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[[Category:Jesuit secondary schools]]
[[Category:Jesuit development centres]]
[[Category:Secondary schools in Uganda]]
[[Category:Educational institutions established in 2010]]

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