Uganda’s public school system is desperately underfunded, which leaves students in decrepit school buildings with too few latrines, desks, and classrooms to accommodate them. These crowded schools sometimes have one hundred students in one class with only one, underpaid teacher, who may or may not show up to instruct them.
Building on the success of the REACH primary school model, we have expanded our reach to 26 local primary schools with over 20,000 students. REACH helps to provide teacher training workshops, school lunch program subsidies, secondary scholarships, library assistance programsand mentorship workshops to many of these students and schools.
In efforts to support P.7 students improve their Primary leaving test scores, REACH expanded its outreach efforts in: Bududa, Manafwa and Namisindwa districts by providing solar reading lights to P.7 students in 38 primary schools in partnership with Unite to Light. Many of the student, teachers and parents see the solar lights as a game changer for their students as they can extend their study time into the night.
Outreach schools are so underfunded and lacking in basic resources that a small donation goes far towards supporting learning.
- $50 provides a student with lunch for the whole school year
- $100 provides a workshop to train 50 teachers
- $150 provides a set of readers for a classroom
- $350 provides a set of practice exams for 1,200 students