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An excerpt from a student’s handout at our nursery teacher’s training college for our behaviour management subject. At least [...]
23/04/2019
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Our work with schools is going so well that we have a new looming problem – children can read but they have no books in schools to read! We [...]
17/04/2019
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A head teacher of a government primary school says to the P7 teacher that he needs his pupils to bring in 2000 Ugandan shillings each for PLE [...]
14/04/2019
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The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. Alvin Toffler A [...]
31/03/2019
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Shall I take you to the gate so those policemen can take you? Do you want Satan to come for you in the night? For those talking, Satan will come [...]
29/03/2019
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THIS is part of the reality of working with Ugandan schools. Thankfully these cases are rare, but nonetheless absolutely heart-breaking when they [...]
28/03/2019
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We’ve kept it a little quiet, and were a little late to celebrate… but we just returned from celebrating our 20th wedding anniversary [...]
26/03/2019
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It’s 3.50am, I’ve been lying in bed for almost 5 hours listening to annoying disco music pounding from the nearby centre; getting more and [...]
13/03/2019
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“We are a restless people. Restlessness is the opposite of being restful. Restfulness is one of the most primal cravings humans have. We crave [...]
04/03/2019
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Mid-way through last year we (READ for Life) were contacted by an international NGO working in Gulu to see if we could develop a partnership with [...]
27/02/2019
Dan and Jodes... in Gulu, Uganda 