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Activity Report: Uganda
In Wakiso District near the capital city of Kampala, education program is being organized. People of community contribute materials and labor for the projects. In the future a number of projects we planned, including adult literacy course, agriculture training, vocational training, safe water, and public toilets.
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Child Participation in Education Program starts.
Each year, more children are enrolled at school in Uganda. On the other hand, a number of drop-outs are also increase. A number of schools being constracted must also match with the efforts to reduce number of drop-outs. At schools run by HFW, we focus on improving the quality os education and encourage children's participation in school activity.
The first step is a workshop for teachers
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HFW worked to provide a safe study environment for children by helping the construction/renovation of schools. The next project aims to improve the quality of education. On May 28, HFW held a workshop entitled “Child Participation: the First Seminar.” The participants are schoolmasters and teachers from four schools which HFW supports: Kasozi Pre Primary School, Kabalagala Orphanage School, Kanyanya Infant School, and Good Times School). In the workshop, participants learned “a child-friendly world” “the Convention on the Right of the Child” and “growth process of a child.”
HFW Uganda is going to realize a two-way education rather than the conventional one-way education in which students just passively listen to teachers. With participation of children, HFW Uganda will continue its seminars and create a new education program by this November.
Children participating in a school-wide program.
On July 29, about 40 pupils of Kanyanya School in the suburbs of Kampala, the capital, visited Good Times School in Kabubu parish, Nangabo Sub-County, which was in a rural area. The pupils of the two schools played interschool matches of reciting poems, which expressed the present conditions of African children, as well as dances and a debate. All the events of that day were organized by the children themselves. They had made preparation for the day, and they emceed the function and conducted the debate.
The proposition of the debate was "Children's rights do more harm than good to children". Good Times School, which was on the affirmative side, maintained that assertion of the rights would allow waywardness and make children delinquent. Kanyanya School refuted that adults who were taught children's rights might stop child abuse, and that the right to have medical treatment decreased children's death rate. A heated debate was held, though interrupted by a sudden rain. Kanyanya School won the debate, but Good Times School won the poem recital and the dance, so as a whole it was a tie.
This kind of class is expected to improve academic records and to lessen dropouts, thus promoting children's desire for learning. (Last Updated 2003.12.20)
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List of development projects: Uganda 2004, 2005 （Project name／Target group, number）
■ Past Field Reports; Uganda （Project name／Target group, number）
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