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St. Joseph’s Technical School was established in 1968 after the prolonged wars in Uganda. The school was started to provide technical skills to the orphaned children whose parents died during the war. In 1980, the district of Rakai was the first one in Uganda to be hit by HIV/AIDS; many children were left orphans and the Brothers merged the technical with the secondary section of the school. And so it became the Technical Secondary school. St, Joseph’s Technical Secondary has an opportunity to grow due to its uniqueness. It is the only school in the Rakai District that provides both high school education and technical skills. The majority of schools in Uganda provide either secondary education or technical education, but St. Joseph's provides both. St. Joseph's is a purely private school managed by the Brothers of St, Charles Lwanga locally, known as the Bannakaroli Brothers. They are based in the Rakai District of Uganda. Today St. Joseph’s has a total of 420 students, bo

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