Dear Aggrey, Your discovery is spot on. For a long time, parents left the issue of education to the government because of the UPE policy. Not like during our times when every parent was concerned about their children's performance. That is the reason for CROWNS project (Community renewed ownership of schools in West Nile) funded by Embassy of the Kingdom of Netherlands in 111 schools in Nebbi and Arua Districts. Unfortunately Ombaci is not yet one of them yet but I have had opportunity to visit this very school and was shocked that they have not seen grade 1 for a long time!!!!!!!!. The reason we launched the three year fund-raising to promote education through functional Adult literacy is to engage parents to be more responsible: check their books, follow their children to school, hold teachers accountable and also provide time and space for children to study at home and at the same time participate in school management and PTAs. One can only be involved if they can know how to read and write; if they can provide food or something to eat for their children and buy them scholastic materials. Based on our experience with CROWNS, CEFORD would like to replicate this to other primary schools. FAL groups learn to read and write but they also learn improved agronomical skills, start rotational savings and income generation projects. The FAL offers opportunity for community development and only costs UGX 80,000 per person. When we put our hearts to it as West Nilers I am sure we can change our community Sharing such experiences and acting positively will help to improve the situation of our people. Many thanks for your observations. Kind regards to you all Nelly
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 1:17 PM, aggrey adrale <[email protected]>wrote: > Thanks Nelly for your appreciation although I did not participate. I hope > the doors are not completely closed. > > I would like to share a small and disheartening experience I went through > recently when out of sheer interest I interacted with five pupils of Ombaci > Primary School, which runs the UPE programme. As I walked behind these > pupils who were walking back home in the evening I became interested in > their conversation and eventually and tectfully joined them. > > Three out of the five pupils said they were in level (P) 4 and the other > two in P.5. As we went on I was to discover that all these pupils could not > correctly spell their names and neither could they sing the letters of the > alphabet...a,b,c,d,etc,etc. This raised quite an alarm in my blood and I > thought if I had time I should find a way to disguisingly attend some > lessons in a few UPE schools to gauge the gravity of this problem. > > Why I am raising this is since as CEFORD you have the FAL programme running > through these schools, given the resources you may not target adults alone > but all those interested. It is apparent that UPE which should have boasted > of pupils achieving functional literacy seems to have failed on that basic. > > Wish you a Merry Christmas and prosperous 2011. > > Aggrey Adrale > > --- On *Fri, 17/12/10, Nelly Badaru <[email protected]>* wrote: > > > From: Nelly Badaru <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] APPRECIATION > To: "A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile" <[email protected]> > Date: Friday, 17 December, 2010, 9:33 > > Dear West Nilers, > Good evening to you all? > I would like to take this opportunity on behalf of CEFORD beneficiaries, > Council, Board, Management, Staff and the communities we work with, to THANK > YOU very much for your generous support to make the first CEFORD Anniversary > Dinner beyond expectations. Special thank to the organizing committee and > the specialized teams of website, Anthem, Magazine, documentary and every > one who contributed and volunteered selflessly to make the day. > Since this was the launch of a three year journey to mobilize resources for > functional adult literacy to be established in primary schools inorder to > improve performance, it is my sincere hope that as a community we shall take > this forward. CEFORD will be happy to receive your ideas, comments, > contributions... > Again, thank you very much for your support. > Kind regards > Nelly Badaru > Chairperson > CEFORD BOARD > > > > > > - > > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by *MailScanner* <http://www.mailscanner.info/>, and is > believed to be clean. > > -----Inline Attachment Follows----- > > _______________________________________________ > WestNileNet mailing list > *MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from > "uk.mc297.mail.yahoo.com" claiming to be* > [email protected]<http://uk.mc297.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]> > http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet > > WestNileNet is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > All Archives can be found at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > _______________________________________________ > > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by *MailScanner* <http://www.mailscanner.info/>, and is > believed to be clean. > _______________________________________________ > WestNileNet mailing list > [email protected] > http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet > > WestNileNet is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > All Archives can be found at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > _______________________________________________ > > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
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