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EDUCATION & CHILD DEVELOPMENT
The Buwagogo Community Project knows that education is the most powerful tool.
Education and child development are vital to teaching critical thinking, social interaction, and improving confidence. It is the first and most important step in creating opportunities for the next generation.
Lack of education is universally cited as one of the foundational causes of poverty.
Equipping children with a foundational education is one of the most effective ways at combatting generational poverty and allowing them to become self-sufficient in the future. Education develops lifelong independence and self-reliance, and given the resources that they need, these youths will hold the power to change their circumstances.
"Uganda faces major challenges in providing quality and accessible basic education to children and adolescents. Today, around 4 out of 10 young children aged 3 to 5 years attend early childhood education, showing marked progress from 2011 that saw 2 out of 10 children enrolled. Similarly, 8 out of 10 children aged 6 to12 years attend primary school and more than 1 in 4 attend secondary school.
However, access remains inequitable: the secondary level enrollment of the richest 20 per cent of the population (43.1 per cent) is five times that of the poorest 20 per cent (8.2 per cent). In geographical terms, the highest Secondary Net Enrollment is seen in Kampala (52 per cent) and lowest in Acholi (7 per cent).
Child marriage, teenage pregnancy, abuse at schools and school fees keep many teens, especially girls, out of secondary schools. Costs associated with education account for 6 out of 10 people leaving school, and pregnancy accounts for 8 per cent of girls who left school. Similar challenges remain in the quality of education: only about 50 per cent of the children in Primary 3 were proficient in literacy and numeracy in a 2018 survey conducted by the Government."
-UNICEF
The Buwagogo Hills of Hope Junior School provides a foundational education for children aged 3-14 years old.
At this school, students learn subjects such as English, Mathematics, Social Studies, and Science to learn about the world around them and to increase their opportunities for a bright future. These children want to learn and put all of their effort into doing so, coming to school early and staying late, even coming in on weekends.
This school needs your help.
The school can currently only afford one textbook for each subject for every twenty students. Children come into other classrooms to borrow pens because the school cannot afford enough writing utensils for everybody, which creates a disruptive learning environment. When the wet season comes in Uganda, many children stop attending school, because they don’t have backpacks or rain jackets; their notebooks are soaked on the way to school. The students make balls out of collected banana fibers and twine. Over one hundred students last year had to halt attendance of primary school because their parents could not afford school fees, which cost $115 USD annually per student.
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