Kampala, Uganda | PATRICIA AKANKWATSA | Learners at Uganda School for the Deaf in Ntinda have received a new football pitch in an initiative dubbed Dream on the Field aimed at creating more inclusive sporting opportunities for children with different abilities. The facility, refurbished by TECNO Mobile Uganda, is the first under the company’s “Dream on …
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Nabilatuk, Uganda | URN | “No relative is giving us attention because they are also equally vulnerable.” Those are the words of 12-year-old Emmy Lokol, a resident of Nabilatuk district, who says he and his 10-year-old brother have been left to fend for themselves after their parents and elder brother were …
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Kampala, Uganda | URN | The government is set to introduce mandatory colour-coding for all school vans and buses as part of wider measures to improve the safety of learners on the country’s roads. The move is among key recommendations made by the recently constituted inter-ministerial committee formed to review school …
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Apac, Uganda | URN | Long walks to school are forcing dozens of children in Aganga Parish to stay away from school. This has exposed many to school dropout, early marriage, and teenage pregnancy, local leaders have said. Children from Abade village, for example, currently walk about 10 kilometers to …
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Arua, Uganda | URN | In Awika Village, Omoo Parish in Arivu Sub-county, Arua District, five-year-old Geria Cosmos begins each school day long before lessons start. For Geria, a Top Class pupil at Amazu Nursery School, going to school is not as simple as walking out of the door. Born with …
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Kampala, Uganda | URN | The Ministry of Education and Sports has dismissed claims circulating both online and offline that schools across Uganda have been closed or suspended because of Ebola. The false reports have spread widely on social media platforms and through word-of-mouth conversations in recent days, causing concern …
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Kampala, Uganda | URN | More than half of Uganda’s sub-counties and town councils do not have a single secondary school, a glaring exposure of the deep inequalities in access to post-primary education, despite years of government efforts to expand universal secondary education. Findings contained in the Uganda Bureau of …
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Kampala, Uganda | URN | A digital school fee loan system is helping thousands of learners in Uganda stay in school by bridging persistent gaps in household income, with at least 31,000 students already supported through mobile-based financing solutions. The intervention, driven by fintech firm Furaha Finserve Uganda Ltd in …
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Kampala, Uganda | URN | Government has clarified that schools are not banned from operating day care centres, but must comply with new regulations requiring each section to function as a separate, licensed entity. Dr Safina Mutumba, the Assistant Commissioner in charge of Pre-primary Education at the Ministry of Education …
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Bududa, Uganda | URN | Bududa District is grappling with a high number of out-of-school children, with child labour and hunger among the leading causes. According to the 2024 National Population and Housing Census, the district has a population of over 267,407 people across 75,751 households, and more than 45,000 …
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The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price
