Empower a Girl: For Self-Reliance

Proudly, with your assistance and other donors, the organization: Kole Intellectual Forum, a Community Based Organization; is happy to report that: the organization is consistency focusing on the promotion of quality and sustainable education of the children of the common men or low income earners in the public primary schools of the post war area of Northern Uganda in a numbers of ways; specifically, at Angic public primary school (the school that had been leveled as the worst performing public school within the district, region and the entire country (Uganda)), according to Uganda Primary Leaving Examination’s results of 2015.

Among the approaches the organization is using are:

a) Providing scholarships to the very needy children; but bright children at schools; like, three are at St. Benedictine Nursery and Primary school, four with Angic primary school, one with Bright Light Senior Secondary School.

b) Making partnership with relevant organizations whose their goals are also meant to promote quality and sustainable education. For instance, Kole Intellectual Forum has entered into partnership with Human Technical Development Training Center, Lira, in Northern Uganda; and they are training 11 children in informal training (welding) on top of one child they had trained last year (2018). The one trained last year, is at present taken for industrial training with Agricultural Machinery Parts and Innovative, Research in Science, Engineering and Technology Metal Fabrication (AMISET), Lira, Northern Uganda; who is also an organization that Kole Intellectual Forum is in partnership with.

These children under training with the help of Kole Intellectual Forum and other development partners  are being prepared for job creation; the organization plans to give them startup capital and ensures that, they are supported to the full capacity.

c) Before they left for the informal training, the organization had empowered them with some skills on how to make sanitary pads. Plans are also underway to see that more skills are given to them after the training; like showing them on how to make liquid soap, petroleum jelly, and candle to bush their income.

Challenges

Although, the organization has got an opportunity to make partnership with other organizations; it is unfortunate that, these opportunities are not in favor of girls’ interest; and many of them that performed in Uganda primary leaving examination at Angic primary school, Kole District, Northern Uganda in 2017 and 2018 as a result of Kole Intellectual Forum’s interventions; are at home doing only domestic work.

Conclusion

Kole Intellectual Forum is therefore appealing to the donors, partners, and well wishers to join them in any form; so that, they can together, create a difference in the post conflict area of Northern Uganda.

Links:

• Kole Intellectual Forum's project page on GlobalGiving

KOLE INTELLECTUAL FORUM PROGRESSIVE REPORT TO AUGUST 2019

The project of Kole Intellectual Forum; because of, its commitments and its interest to reorganize the mindsets of educational stakeholders to embrace organizational campaign of promoting quality and sustainable education in Uganda; specifically, at Angic public primary school and St. Benedictine Nursery and Primary school, on GlobalGiving project page link to http://goto.gg/31562; GlobalGiving has awarded the organization with four badges: Vetted, Top ranked, Effective and Site visit badges.

Secondly, from 2016; the organization had been paying school fees for the disadvantaged children; although, donation is no longer coming from GlobalGiving, the organization is still maintaining the project through its membership contributions and other sources

Not forgetting the new project that the organization has initiated also from membership contribution; that is, making children out of school to reach the fullest potential of their education. Twelve children out school from Angic Upper cell have been selected and taken for skill training (welding), with the hope of giving them startup capital

Consultation has always been the key guiding principles of Kole Intellectual Forum; the organization is doing this, through meetings and workshop; both at Angic and Aumi primary school

Site visit, on 22^nd July, 2019; the project office and site of Kole Intellectual Forum was visited by the GlobalGiving Traveler; and, a number of activities took place as recorded below:

• The Guest was received in the office by the project team: the Board members, permanent workers, volunteers, founder members and well wishers;
• The guest was taken through the financial accounts of GlobalGiving with Kole Intellectual Forum
• To show that, the organization(KIFA) is working in collaboration of all the educational stakeholders within the region, the guest and the team from Kole Intellectual Forum, had a developmental discussion with the district officials; those were, Resident District Commissioner, District Education Officer, and District Community Development Officer at Kole district Headquarter;
• At the project site visit;

a)      at Angic primary school, in the present of Resident District Commissioner of Kole District and Kole Intellectual Project team; the guest was welcome by the Head teacher and taken to a number of places within the school before meeting the community; b) from the community there was an open air discussion, that was when the project leader declared to the community the wealth of their staff and their sources of fund, as well as accounting to the community what the money they received from GlobalGiving did and is doing at Angic primary school in the present of the guest; the guest and Resident District Commissioner of Kole district were among the people who addressed the community. There were a number of extra curriculum activities at the function; there was traditional dances, music from the pupils, scouting and many more

b)      at Aumi, St. Benedictine Nursery and Primary school, the community warmly welcome the visitor; the was also a number of speeches, traditional dances, and gifts given to the guest the visitor by the community

c)       Re-donation of the Gifts given to the guest (GG traveler), with the instruction from the guest, the gifts given to the visitor was re-donated to some of the children of Angic primary school by Kole Intellectual Forum; especially, the children, that are being supported by the organization and those that performed well during the occassion with the guest

d) at Wigua Primary school; the school of disability; the visitor was welcome by the head teache who is a disable person. He presente to the team the challenges the school is facing and how the are mitigating them  

Links:

• Kole Itellectusl Forum's website