After visiting Gulu, Uganda in March of 2007, The Mary A. Tidlund Charitable Foundation has partnered with the Pece Community Nursery School to pay all staff salaries through to 2009.

The Pece School offers the lowest cost pre-primary education in all of Gulu District - a service that is not publicly funded. The school has ten staff who work with 240 kindergarten aged children, all of whom come from very poor families. In the past school fees have been used to pay the teachers’ salaries, however families often default in payment leaving nothing with which to pay staff. By covering these costs, teachers can be confident they will be paid for their hard work and the quality of education at the Pece Community Nursery School will remain high.

By the end of three years the Tidlund Foundation will have supported the Pece Community Nursery School with $6600 US.