Project Report
| May 26, 2025
Mediating within community: families' disputes
By George Obua | Project Leader
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Helping community to resolve problem at homesteads
Mediating within the community: Settling families’ disputes
Having learnt that Kole intellectual forum is one such an organization that can help them to settle of the heart touching families’ disputes; most of the families’ members of the community surrounding the organization have always come for help, and the ways such disputes are settled have restored peace in most of the homestead.
Because according to Kole Intellectual forum, they observed that: settling community families’ disputes offers numerous advantages, including preserving relationships, promoting cooperation, and fostering a sense of fairness. It can also be more efficient and less costly than formal legal processes. Additionally, it allows for more personalized solutions that address the specific needs of all parties involved.
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May 26, 2025
Visiting the sick within the community
By George Obua | Project Leader
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Community outreaching: Visiting the sick
Visiting the sick within the community
To outreach the community and make the community to feel the in-depth existence of Kole Intellectual Forum, as a Community Based Organization that is existing within them and also providing some supplementary services among them; Kole Intellectual Forum has designed community outreach program that, they ensure every month they identify one or two sick person within the community and they visit him or her while also directing such a person to visit a health facility. They (KIFA) team may also be carrying to the person some support either in kind or in terms of monetary resource.
This program has so far lasted for two years since it was started and because of the interested of community into it, Kole Intellectual Forum, is now planning to extend it from one sub-county to more than sub-counties within Aboke Town Council, Kole District, Northern Uganda.
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May 26, 2025
Diversity in languages: A challenge to education
By George Obua | Project Leader
Complexities on diversity in languages is a challenge to the acquisition of quality education.
A research that Kole Intellectual Forum is exploring into to find how these issues of languistic diversities can be accommodated to bring about a clear and unquestionable positive results in the quality of education in Uganda, particularly in Kole District
Kole Intellectual Forum is mainly focused on the issue of using mother tongue / local language as a medium of instruction and how this relates to learning outcomes. Following the background that, in Uganda, there is an existing language policy, which requires the use of pupils' mother tongues or a common area language as a medium of instruction from Primary 1 to Primary 3.
The team of the organization argued that while the policy is well-intentioned, it is faced with a number of challenges in practice and has not yet translated into desirable learning outcomes. For example, due to the linguistic diversity of Uganda even within smaller geographical areas, choosing to use one local language as a medium of instruction in one given village may exclude some learners who do not speak the language, thus, affecting their learning.
In all this, the team noted teachers to be a key factor, yet they have hardly been well-supported to implement the language policy. A recent spotlight study by the organization reported on basic education completion and foundational learning in Uganda highlighted a scarcity of curriculum documents and teacher guides. Where these existed, they were all in English, inserting more pressure on the teachers to be language interpreters while delivering the curriculum (Nakabugo et al 2024).
In her final submission, Kole Intellectual Forum argued that, improving children’s learning outcomes requires much more than simply having in place a language in education policy that requires the use of local language as a medium of instruction. Other factors, such as support to teachers, availability of resources, the support to learners and parental and community awareness of the value of the policy need to be considered.
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