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    Despite European Funding, Education in Uganda Region Needs Improvement

    By Jenny Lei Ravelo // 08 November 2011

    Although Uganda has received funding from several European governments for its education sector, the country continues to experience setbacks in improving the state of education in the northeastern region of Karamoja.

    Among these is the high dropout rate in schools.

    Moses Ghinno, head teacher at Lopuyo Primary School in Kotido district, said food rations and domestic chores were the main reasons for this problem. He said parents would rather have their children do agropastoral work or get married at puberty to gain wealth and form new family alliances than attend school. He explained most parents “see education as something that has no fruits in the future, something that is only for disabled children who have no other capacity.”

    Another drawback is the lack of decent classroom amenities and teachers competent in the local language. In Karamoja, there is a huge shortage in locally trained teachers. While it is government policy for teachers to use the local language in teaching primary schoolchildren, most teachers can only speak “broken” versions of the local language.

    If these setbacks are not addressed, Karamoja’s young might miss out on economic opportunities that are starting to form in the region.

    “People are seeing now that the cows have gone and there’s nothing to do at home. So the only way is to educate the child”, Ghinno said.

    Read more:

    • Uganda Gains Irish Aid for Education, AIDS Fight 

    • Ireland Helps Send Ugandan Children to Secondary Schools

    • Ugandan Education Sector Earns Belgian Aid

    • Netherlands Resumes Education Aid to Uganda

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      Jenny Lei Ravelo@JennyLeiRavelo

      Jenny Lei Ravelo is a Devex Senior Reporter based in Manila. She covers global health, with a particular focus on the World Health Organization, and other development and humanitarian aid trends in Asia Pacific. Prior to Devex, she wrote for ABS-CBN, one of the largest broadcasting networks in the Philippines, and was a copy editor for various international scientific journals. She received her journalism degree from the University of Santo Tomas.

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