Education Uganda Project #45693

Education to Students and Children Under Six Years

by The Odwar Fund

Project Report | Aug 17, 2023
SCHOOL ATTENDANCE AND LEARNING

By Eddy Morris ogweng | Project Project leader

Dear Esteemed Supporters and donors,

It is with very profound gratitude that I write to you this brief.

The last three months has been a mixture of strides and drawbacks.

At our ECDC center we had a unique quarter with the enrollment of over 240 children at the center. A number of these children come with such excitement and Joy that our staff and volunteers simply see a dream come true in the persuit of not only their professional career but also the learning center. Our centers are premised on the desire rooted on the motto' Esteeming the Next Generation" and seeing children flock the center in excitement speaks to the reality that we are building an esteemed next generation who are able to take charge of the affairs of their time. It is important to realize that our children will become leaders of a more demanding and complex generation and decade of great digital stride. Today as I piece this brief, Uganda is launching a roadmap for the digital space and we can only hope for our rural communities and children to have access to equal digital opportunities but as it stands out it can only be a brutal reality that it might take decades for children in the communities we serve to fully benefit from the digital transformation agenda.

When someone sits in Washington or Nairobi or Kampala, it is possible to make assumptions that all communities are already enjoying the benefits of digital transfer but the truth of the matter is that poverty, climate change, hunger remain one brutal obstacle to achieving Access to education for the rural poor children and to sit and assume that everything is well is likened to burring our heads in the sun. Our centers attract children whose parents can not offer them two meals a day for 365 days of the year and this has a direct bearing on school attendance which directly affects learning. If we have a child attending school twice a week instead of five days a week we can not be proud that we are making impact but we have not lost hope. As stated earlier in this brief, the center opened this quarter with 240 but as the quarter is closing we are seeing 140 completing the quarter and out of the 140 , just about 100 have been a bit consistent.

As an organization, giving up on our mandate is not part of our DNA and as a result we are constantly investing in fully understanding the cause of the disparities and how to address these challenges and disparities. Our center has continued to provide meals for the children with some modest contribution from the parents and we have continued to encourage parents to supplement our efforts to ensure children have uniforms but this is still difficult as we still have several children we are unable to offer uniforms.

Ours supporters and the GlobalGiving community, I wish to request and implore you to come to our rescue by giving us more support and resources that will enable us continue Esteeming the next generation of leaders that we have at our centers. I understand your contribution has been enormous and we can not be more grateful for all your generous giving but as I stated,we have gotten to a point where communities have built strong confidence and belief in us and entrusted the future of their children in our hands,we can only hope that you remain steadfast in trusting us with your finances that will guarantee a safe and secure future for the next generation of children we are raising to take charge of the world in a more challenging decade of digital transformation.

Appreciations are in order for all your prayers and support for us and we look forward to hearing feedback on what you think can help us move forward in our persuit of Esteeming the next generation.

Recieve our sincere gratitude and Best wishes!

Eddy Morris ogweng

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Apr 14, 2023
NEW DIGITAL CHALLENGE

By Eddy Morris Ogweng | Project Leader

Dear Our esteemed supporters,

Greetings from The Odwar Fund!

The education in uganda is movimg towards a new digital error with the ministry of education requiring all learners to be registered on the EMIS-Education Management Information System. This process requires that all learners' information including that of their parents is entered on the EMIS Portal.

It should be realizd that the IT level of most people in uganda is still low with many school managers including teachers having very little expertise in Computer related knowledge. Given the above gap on IT skills ,many schools are facing immense challenges getting this data entered and a number of rural schools have had immense challenges meeting datelines.

In the event that the ministry sticks to punitve mesures of de-lincensing non compliant schools it will mean that a number of rural schools would be affected and hundreds of thouands of children will loose opportunity to be in school as a result.

The Odwar Fund believes that there is need to strengthen training in the IT for teachers and managers of schools in rural areas to cope with the new digital era.

The supporters,we are so excited that you have given us opportunity to reach out to hundreds of children,i am requesting for your thoughts to be focussed on looking for pattners and institutions that can work with The Odwar Fund in supporting basic IT training and opportunities for rural community schools as a means of making our schools and teachers ready for the new digital era and ensuring that our children both now and in the future are not left behind even as we seek to be part of the Global Partnership for development contained in the sustainable development goals,SDGs objective.

Finally i want to thank you and implore you to talk to as many people as possible about the work and challenges ahead of us as we strive to pull through thousands of children in rural Northern uganda who actually deserve same opportunitties that are available in other places.

Best Regards!

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Dec 12, 2022
THE YEAR 2022 AND ACADEMICS

By Eddy Morris Ogweng | Project leader

Dear donors and supporters,

It is with very profound gratitude that I write to you this report.

The academic year 2022 came to an end amidst a mixed bag of issues.

On a positive note,a number of the children under our Care have been able to complete the year at the learning centers and have been promoted to the next classes. For those in the other levels like the university they have also had very successful semesters which testifies to the great results of the support you have provided which ensures these children have access to the education that they so much need to attain.

At the moment The government through the ministry of education has introduced an IT based program called EMIS- Education Management Information System which allows all centers to upload information for all learners and as a result over 250 children in centers under our support have had their information collected and awaiting upload into the EMIS portal. There will be need for all children enrolling to be uploaded to the EMIS portal and this means that the need for the staff working in our centers to have IT knowledge.

It is critical to note that the number of children accessing centers under our support are increasingly growing and services like classroom desks, classrooms,toilets are increasingly becoming constrained. The need to access support for putting in place these facilities can not be understated and we can only achieve these with support from our donors and well wishers. I would wish to invite you that at your most convenient timing you consider visiting us and advising on the best ways to offer children an environment where they are best placed to play, learn and grow.

In the course of the third term,it became so apparent that a number of our children could not be on uniform or have sufficient academic supplies because the parents have had a difficult impact of the economic meltdown resulting from the Russia Ukraine war that pushed prices of commodities very highl and setting Uganda on double digits inflation with devastating effect on the poor parents,as result we have had huge difficulty keeping the children in school but we thank God that with the support from you these were possible but I implore you to consider speaking to people in your network and consider putting some additional support so that we can better support the children in 2022.

Education for the rural poor is barely a luxury as in most circumstances these children come from poorest of the poor households where access to food alone is a challenge. In one of the centers we have ensured the provision of meals at the learning center and we have seen the great outcome on child performance, we look forward to mentaining this service for the children as besides improving their academic performance they have had great improvement in their physical growth and development.

I wish to sincerely thank you all for reading through this but we at The Odwar fund are so blessed to have you as partners in supporting us reach hundreds of children who would have otherwise not accessed education, you are always in our thoughts and prayers.

Looking forward to hearing from you and or seeing you when you make your mind to come down to Uganda to see the great change your donation and support is making in the Lives of the children

Best regards

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