LEO stands for:

• Leadership – Developing skills as project organizers, motivators, and leaders.
• Experience – Gaining exposure to service, teamwork, and humanitarian engagement.
• Opportunity – Making friends, discovering talents, and building a network for life.

Our Leos are changemakers – students, young professionals, entrepreneurs, and creatives – who step up to address the needs of their communities while cultivating the values of integrity, compassion, and excellence.

LEO District 411B engages in impactful projects and activities including:

• Community service (health camps, tree planting, environmental cleanup)
• Youth empowerment seminars and leadership training
• Fundraising for charitable causes
• Peace poster competitions and cultural exchange programs
• Collaborations with Lions Clubs on district-wide initiatives

To empower the youth of Uganda to serve their communities, grow as leaders, and become responsible global citizens through the values of the Lions movement.

A generation of youth inspired by service, leading with purpose, and transforming lives across Uganda and beyond.

LEOs work closely with sponsoring Lions Clubs across District 411B. They are mentored by experienced Lions and often transition into Lionism as they grow older. Through Mission 1.5 and New Voices Initiatives, LEOs are recognized as vital contributors to the future of Lionism in Uganda.

School renovation; by repainting the dining hall and installation of missing glass into its windows, repairing the roof structures, repainting the walls of the dormitory spaces of Uganda school of the deaf, Ntinda- Kampala, Uganda.

Uganda School for the Deaf is the first primary school for the deaf in Uganda. It was established in 1959 by concerned parents under the Uganda Society for the Deaf (USD), located at Namirembe Hill, Kampala. The school moved to its current campus on plot 18 Ntinda Road, Nakawa Division Urban Council, Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA), in 1989. Located 5 km East of Kampala city. It was fully taken over by the government in 2000 as a government grant-aided school.

Apparently, the school has a total enrolment of 217 children, 106 are boys and 111 girls, out these, 10 are children with multiple disabilities. The school provides education to deaf and deaf blind children and youth from the ages of 4 to 16 years. Although the school benefits from the Universal Primary Education (UPE) grant, it entirely depends on parent’s contributions and one-time donations from well-wishers.

Repainting of the Dining Hall, inside walls of the Dormitory spaces, started on the 28th of January and this last not more than 12 days. The major works were implemented at the end January Holiday before the children reported back to school. The Leos and Lions who participated in the implementation were over 26. The project was officially closed after the installation of project plaques on the 18th March and after the evaluation of the impact of the work done.

Dining Hall
The dining hall had deteriorated paint and roof sections, which were not offering a good environment to the children. These roof sections were replaced with new iron sheets and the roof was also repaired accordingly. The roof structure also had structural issues, which were solved by the installation of hollow pipes in front of the Dining hall. The dining hall block also has the Kitchen and food stores, these were all repainted by the Leos with filling of holes on the building. All the doors and windows of the Dining were all repainted by the Leos and Lions. The windows with missing glasses, broken glasses and all cracked glasses were all replaced with new window glasses.

The windows on the Dining lacked both stoppers and locks, which were installed in order to protect the glass from breaking due to wind, which may make them hit the frame in case they are not locked or fixed firmly with the stoppers.

The Dormitories of both the boys and girls had deteriorated paint, which needed to be replaced. The boys' Dormitory had its inside walls painted with colors that do not enhance vision to help the children who have low vision while utilizing the Dormitory. The dark colors were making the usage of the Dormitory very challenging for the children with low Vision. This was solved by the Leos and Lions of District 411B, Uganda, who painted the walls of this dormitory with colors that enhance vision. This rhymes with the core service area of Vision as the children now easily utilize the dormitory like others who have normal vision.

In Summary The following activities were done:

1. The boys' dormitory and dining hall windows and walls got pre-painted, minor and holes filled out
2. The walls were whitewashed and repainted with 2 coats of fresh, child-friendly colors of silk paint.
3. Both places and plus the girls' dormitory were given child-friendly pictures and inscriptions of motivational sentences.
4. The leaking iron sheets of the dining hall were refixed with nails
5. Missing glasses were bought and refitted in the windows.

It improved the school learning environment of the pupils through the painting of the Dining Hall. The artistic paintings will also benefit the Children very much as they will engage them to learn new soft skills, be jolly, happy, caring, and interact with other people.