Orientation
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There are 2 million orphans in Uganda. A–Z supports 140 of these children through child sponsorship. We also provide capital funding for the building of classrooms, toilets etc., have peer education programmes running in several primary schools (we were the first organisation in Uganda to introduce it to primary schools) and have 2 school twinning programmes running between Irish and Ugandan primary schools. We also built the first children’s community library in Uganda. This was done with the help of a grant from the INTO.
Teachers are urgently needed to teach in all of the primary schools we support in Uganda. Some classes have nearly 100 pupils in them. Irish primary school teachers can really make an impact with their work, especially in areas such as group work and positive reinforcement, which are not practices used in Uganda. Subjects like art can be encouraged also. This subject especially is a subject these schools know little about. The teachers in Uganda are very forward thinking and open to practical suggestion.
