This project helps refugee children and other vulnerable children in the communities to access the "Universal Primary Education" initiated by the Uganda government. It will finish a two class rooms under construction at PPDR which is a transit center for the children to be prepared before joining the formal school; It will give English skills to refugee children so that they can easily integrate formal schools; It will provide, fees food and shelter to refugee children unaccompanied minors.
Uganda welcomes refugees from different countries including children who are either with their parents or have lost them in Uganda or in their countries of origin. These children face the following problems: 1. Lack of protection they are daily abused because they are not in schools 2. Language problems, they cannot communicate because they don't know English 3. Have no where to stay and nothing to eat, especially the unaccompanied minors 4. Have no information about education in Uganda
This project will do the following: 1. Offer orientation sessions to refugee children in Kampala on how they can access the education, 2. Teach English to refugee children and adapt them to the Uganda Education system, 3. Advocating to the Government and UNHCR to subsidize the education to refugee children 4. Offer basic needs (food, shelter and medical care) to refugee unaccompanied minors 5.Sensitize the parents to send children to school and the school authorities to accommodate refugees
In long term this project seeks to set up a primary school of six class rooms by the end of this year which will offer effective protection to more than 500 refugee children each year. This will help these children to develop and become good citizens to their countries of origin, the country of asylum and the countries of resettlement. This will put to the end of massive abuses of refugee children right and pave away for their local integration in the communities.
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
