Uganda

The Situation

During 20 years of intense fighting between the Uganda government and rebels, hundreds of thousands of people fled their homes to escape death or abduction. Since 2002, most have returned, but face severe poverty. An entire generation has lost out on education and cannot pass on the knowledge, skills and values that will hasten recovery. While pressing Uganda to reverse education's extreme collapse, we will also help bridge the urgent resource gap.

Meeting the challenge

Save the Children aims to increase the number of children - especially girls and the poorest children - enrolling in school and enable more of them to complete their formal education. We will help introduce means of protecting children through school. We will train teachers, provide classrooms and materials, and help communities support education.

Our target

Save the Children needs the international community to create a climate in which Uganda accepts that it must - and can - deliver its education targets for 2010. We will support the Uganda n government as it works to:

• increase the number of children who can afford to complete basic education
• recruit and improve the training of more teachers in remote, conflict-affected areas
• address the issues which keep girls from attending school.

Our goal is for more than 260,000 children in conflict-affected and post-conflict areas in northern and western Uganda to receive improved quality of education by 2010. Of those, 166,000 children will have gained new access to basic education.

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