Across Uganda, children attend school every day, but too many classrooms have few or no books to read. As Teach For Uganda marks ten years of impact, the Give a Book Campaign will provide age-appropriate books and set up practical, well-managed reading spaces for 5,000 learners in underserved public primary schools, so children can read, practice, and build the confidence that foundational literacy depends on.
In Uganda's underserved public primary schools, children arrive ready to learn but have too few books, or none. Across Teach For Uganda's partner districts, reading materials are often shared by many or missing altogether. Without regular access to books, 5,000 early-primary learners cannot practice reading or build the foundational literacy that all later learning depends on.
Teach For Uganda will buy age-appropriate storybooks and graded readers in English and local languages and place them in practical classroom reading spaces: a book box or shelf, a reading register, a borrowing and return system, and a reading timetable. Teachers, Fellows, and school focal persons will run scheduled reading sessions, and learner book monitors will help care for the books. Each school signs a Book Access Commitment so books stay in children's hands, and use is monitored.
Children who read regularly read better. By making books a permanent, well-managed part of underserved classrooms, the campaign builds stronger foundational literacy, reading confidence, and a reading culture that outlives the campaign. Reading spaces, trained focal persons, and Book Access Commitments keep books in daily use year after year, helping 5,000 learners, and the children who follow them, stay in school and learn with confidence.
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