Education Program
EDUCATION PROGRAM
Orphanages in Uganda have increased over decades
Establishment and promotion through financial support of children’s homes.
Over the past three decades, the number of children in orphanages in Uganda has increased from approximately 1000 in the 1990’s to more than 50,000 today. However, many of these orphanages operate with little regulation and put children at risk of sexual exploitation and other harms.
Why education matters?
Education is the key to personal growth When children learn to read and write, they become confident in their ability to succeed. It empowers to develop personal strength and to pursue own hopes and dreams.
Education combats poverty Through having access to better job opportunities, these former students are now able to give part of their earnings to their families, breaking the cycle of poverty not only for themselves, but also for their relatives.
Education changes the entire community When they graduate, they will put their acquired skills into action — go to work, start their own business, innovate, produce and bring capital and knowledge to the whole community.
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76% Ugandans in rural areas have limited access to basic education services
The above statement is attributed to a number of factors, among which include shortage of skilled teachers, underpaying the teachers and poor infrastructures that exist in the country.
Despite significant efforts by the government and some international organizations to improve the education system in the country, the country is still far from the goal of achieving universal education coverage, thus the need to design and develop a highly efficient and effective education system.
Significantly, Uganda falls short of the United Nations Organization’s recommendation of having one teacher for every 50 persons, considering the country has only one teacher for every 25,000 persons. This led to the introduction of community education systems , known as ‘Village Teachers team, to reduce the burden at Education facilities and increase a promotive and strong education system.
In 2007, Many organizations were formed and worked closely with the Ministry of Education, embarked on the journey to strengthen the education system by recruiting, training, and supporting a network of community education workers who serve as government Village Education Teams to deliver essential, high quality education services.
However, the country has continued to register an undesirable decline in its pursuit to provide high quality health services for the masses, thereby leading to the rise of other organizations like Ntale which is working on different projects like building schools providing scholastic materials among others so as to ensure that every Ugandan is able to receive good quality education, irrespective of their level of income, age, gender or social status.
The Ntale Organization is seeking to ensure that the average Ugandan doesn’t have to spend a fortune on basic education services by organizing charity events and fundraisers to raise money and other basic needs for hundreds of people that are suffering in both government and private schools, or health centers.
The organization is also aiming at ensuring that the illiteracy caused by poor education services or failure to access proper education facilities is reduced in the country.
Provision of books, pens, uniforms, school fees, are some of the things we intend on doing to help make the system better thereby securing a brighter future for the kids of Uganda.
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