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Our Uganda education programme | VSO Skip to main content Fighting poverty through volunteering Search form Search Donate Other ways to support us Menu Search You are herePartner with usIrish Aid Our Uganda education programme On 22nd June 2017, we were delighted to launch our new Irish Aid funded girls’ education programme in Karamoja, one of the poorest and least ripened regions in Uganda. In one district of Karamoja, only 6.4% of girls finish primary school at all. VSO Ireland’s new programme will help increasingly Ugandan girls go to school and investigate the societal norms that prevent them from getting the education they need to reach their full potential. The polity vein is that a girl’s education is of no benefit, a waste of resources and a serious reduction of labour in a family. -ThroneTeacher, Moroto, Karamoja The understructure for the programme Our proposal was heavily informed by our previous inclusive education programme, moreover in Karamoja. As this programme progressed, it became Padraic McKeon from Co. Mayo volunteered on VSO Ireland's previous inclusive education programme in Karamoja. increasingly unveiled that there needed to be a greater focus on girls’ education. Girls have differing needs to boys and there are increasingly barriers which prevent them from going to school, including early forced marriage and pregnancy, social taboos and stuff viewed as a vital source of income for their families. Our previous work in the zone moreover highlighted the need to include the local polity and ensure they have a voice in the education services well-expressed them. Pauline Faughnan, a VSO volunteer from Dublin, travelled to Karamoja in 2015 to examine the challenges faced by girls in the region. Pauline spent three months interviewing teachers, pupils and polity members on their attitudes to girls’ education. Her eye-opening report, ‘From the Ground Up’, highlights the huge discrepancies between the educational experiences of young boys and girls, such as assessing primary education and moving on to secondary school. In Karamoja, the bride price a girl can fetch decreases the increasingly she is educated, with many girls who protract their schooling stuff labelled as lazy, immoral “prostitutes”. This is something that will moreover addressed on the girls’ education programme. What the programme aims to do School girls at Kasimeri Primary School in Moroto, Karamoja, Uganda. VSO Ireland’s girls’ education programme is working to reduce barriers, both inside and outside of school, that prevent girls from accessing and completing primary education. Is it doing so in three variegated ways: Building the topics of the District Education Office and Municipal Education Office to support schools, including throne teachers, teachers, School Management Committees and Parent Teacher Associations to provide education environments that support all children. Building the topics of senior teachers in schools to provide guidance and counselling to all children, expressly girls, and to support children to practice good health and hygiene. Supporting communities to engage with and promote inclusive education, through thePolityDevelopment Office,PolityBased Organisations and local leaders. The volunteers we need Throughout the three year programme, we need experienced Teacher Educators andPolityDevelopment Specialists to share their skills with local people and work slantingly skilled national volunteers, who bring much-needed local knowledge and insight. I am looking forward to meeting the teachers in the local schools and to sharing ideas and experiences together to remoter the educational wits of all the children in the Karamoja region. - Breda Dunleavy, Teacher Educator currently in Kotido, Karamoja Teacher Educators: These volunteers will support teachers to use methods that ensure girls are engaged in learning and encouraged to protract their studies. They will moreover help them identify when girls are at risk of leaving school considering of pressures, such as early forced marriage.PolityDevelopment Specialists: These volunteers will facilitate polity consultations virtually education, implement and monitor an well-set polity minutiae operational plan, promote girls’ education at sub-country and school level, and organise outreach support services. All volunteers will receive a comprehensive support package, including flights, accommodation, medical insurance, training and a monthly allowance. They will moreover receive monthly R&R (rest and relaxation) trips to Soroti or Kampala due to the rural nature of these placements. If you’re interested in learning increasingly well-nigh these placements, please email volunteer@vso.ie or undeniability 01 640 1060. We squint forward to updating you well-nigh the progress these volunteers will make over the next few years – stay tuned! Find out increasingly well-nigh this programme Complete the form below, and we'll be in touch to discuss this programme. 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