Nearly 75% of teens in Uganda won’t graduate.
We’re ensuring every student (especially girls!) makes it to graduation & beyond…
Public schools in northern Uganda tend to be overcrowded, underfunded and lacking the adequate sanitation, housing, teacher training and educational resources that are essential to healthy child development. Girls are particularly at risk of dropping out early due to lack of menstrual hygiene resources and available toilets at school. Through our School Outreach Program, we’re partnering with primary & secondary schools with the aim of raising the standard for education for all children in the sub-county.
School Outreach Initiatives
Menstural Hygiene
We've partnered with AfriPads to deliver reusable sanitary pads & train girls on menstrual health & hygiene. Every year we distribute 150 pad kits and hold trainings at local primary, secondary & vocational schools.
WASH Projects
We work with community leaders and the District Education Office to identify schools in the area that are in need of infrastructure development. In 2018, we constructed six drainable toilets for Namasale Primary School, who previously only had one operational toilet for 1,000 students.
Teacher Training
Teacher absenteeism is high in Uganda, with more than 60 per cent of teachers not in the classroom teaching in over half of all Ugandan public schools (UNICEF). Investing in educators in rural areas is key to improving student outcomes which is why Teachers at our partner schools are able to attend all of our annual teacher trainings free of cost.
OUR PARTNER SCHOOLS
Namasale Primary School
While the number of children enrolled in primary school has grown since Uganda launched universal primary education in 1997, public schools across the country still lack the basic resources needed to ensure their students are successful. Because of this, many students (particularly girls) will not continue their education past Primary 7.
Located in the center of Namasale Town, Namasale Primary serves over 1000 students per day. At times this means there can be 70 students to one teacher in a classroom, and that many students — especially girls — don’t have access to the kind of WASH essentials that make the difference between them attending school each day or not.
In 2018, we partnered with Namasale Primary to construct six new drainable pit latrine toilets, as well as made the commitment to provide reusable AfriPads to the upper level girls every year to ensure that no girl ever misses school because of her period. Additionally, we partner with the teachers and staff at Namasale Primary to provide trainings and resources to raise the level of education children receive across the Amolatar District.
Agwingiri Girls School
During our 2019 Cultural Immersion Trip, in partnership with local leaders our team identified Agwingiri Girls School as our next School Outreach partner.
An all-girls secondary school just north of Global Leaders in rural Amolatar District, we learned that Agwingiri was enrolling boys because of the high drop out rate of girls due to a lack of adequate toilets for their students. As part of our School Outreach Program we were able to build a new, drainable "Dry Box" latrine for Agwingiri Girls School to ensure girls would never miss another day of school due to lack of adequate toilet facilities.
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