Ananda Marga Mission

Multidimensional Project in Uganda

By Dada Gunamuktananda

The beginnings of the Ananda Marga Mission Primary School in Wasswa village, Lugazi, Uganda goes back to 1998, when the first member of Ananda Marga, Paresh, started teaching seven children under the shade of a tree. This prompted the local people to request an actual school, and a local landowner was convinced to sell 20 acres of land for the present master unit, which was purchased in 2001 with a down payment by Dada Sumitananda, the other half being paid off in 2003 by Dada Aksovananda when he first arrived. By that time the school had 100 children and has been growing ever since under Dada Aksovananda’s guidance.

Work on the current buildings started in 2010 (when there were 250 children), with construction ongoing until only just last year [2025]. Now there are 350 day pupils, some having to walk miles each day from surrounding villages, and 30 children’s home boys and girls and boarders. Ages range from 5-16 years. Staff include 13 teachers and other ancillary staff. The children are given daily lunch and school supplies (stationery and other materials) and the facilities include spacious classrooms, a meditation room funded by the local Indian community, a computer lab with 10 very adequate desktop computers donated by AMURT Italia, a library constructed last year also with funding from AMURT Italia, a sound system and laptop to play music from funds donated from Stockholm, Sweden. Other projects on the land include a medical clinic and various forms of agriculture including a dairy farm and jackfruit and mango cultivation.

In addition to the school and children’s home in Lugazi, there is also the Ananda Marga Mission Primary School, Seeta, closer to the capital Kampala, with 100 students.


The Computer Lab

Dada Aksovananda and the headmistress

Children playing outside

A class lesson outside