Build a School
St. Thomas Aquinas College – Erepi (STACE) ihas the capacity to educate over 800 students. Many of these students are orphaned or from disadvantaged families. The school employes approximately over 50 teachers, administrators, and site staff who have successfully supported the student's success in achieving such accomplishments as placing 1st in the West Nile Reagon for their academic testing scores along with many other accolades.
STACE opened in February 2020 with two dorms, three classroom blocks, a chapel, and a multipurpose center. Since first opening, we have added dormitory expansions, a science, lab building, SOURCE ® hydrosolar panels for purified water, and more. We have a fully functioning farm to grow crops and a chicken coup for the campus meals and to utilize for educational purposes.
The school supplements a traditional curriculum with vocational training, peace & conflict resolution, and moral and spiritual transformation. Because of intermittent power outages, additional solar installation, generator, and storage capacity are needed to help light the school campus in our remote location.
We currently need funding for the following Mission projects…
Architecturally sustainable campus drainage and landscaping
- Phase 1 – Stormwater channels and ditches to prevent flooding $55,000
- Phase 2 – Small piping, channels, and improvement to campus walking paths $25,000
- Phase 3 – Plantings and landscaping to minimize erosion $25,000
Teacher quarters building – $ 75,000 each (each building provides rooms for 8 teachers)
- To further enhance security on campus
- Assist in retaining optimal teaching staff over rival schools
Chapel Pews with kneelers - $10,000
Solar Field batteries, generator, and electrical upgrades - $32,000
- Solar panels were delivered to the campus during Q2 2025
Your generous tax-deductible donation will help provide a safe learning environment that can benefit hundreds of children for years to come — and ultimately build a stronger community.
Fully Funded Projects at STACE
- Information Technology Center – $130,000
- Library building – $100,000
- Multipurpose Hall – $220,000
- Classroom Blocks (3) – $195,000
- Teacher/principal duplex (1) - $47,000
- Teacher 8-plex (2) – $75,000
- Kitchen Facility – $20,000
- Student Chapel – $75,000
- Boys Dorm with capacity for 100+ beds – $110,000
- Boys Dorm for 200 additional beds – $80,000
- Girls Dorm with capacity for 100+ beds – $110,000
- Girls Dorm for 200 students – $80,000
- Electrical grid power transformer – $15,000
- Upgrade to the motorized, solar-powered water well – $11,000
- Security perimeter fence for the campus – $35,000
- Science Laboratory building – $140,000
- Campus Gate Entrance and Security Booth– $3,000
- A health clinic with attached nurse living quarter – $84,000
- Water Tank – $5,000
- Farm Equipment (tractor, plows, tipping trailer) – $44,000
- Agriculture and livestock farmland – $40,000 (20 acres)
- Solar Panels - $32,000