Empower a Girl: For Self-Reliance

“Better Data

Better decisions

Better world” (Marr, B., 2017)

Are the strongest quotes that Kole Intellectual Forum cherishes; and it is doing it, to the best of its skills to see that it implements it in all ways. Fortunately, with the help of GlobalGiving, contribution from some Donors, and other Development partners; including, the members of the organization (Kole Intellectual Forum), the institution has assumed that: without instituting a body that, where, ideas (data) can be generated, discussed, interpreted, diagnosed, and treated among the communities it is working for; especially, the post war community of Northern Uganda; their campaign to improve on quality education of the children of common men that because of government policy of privatizing education and because of the war that disintegrated community from their schools; are making these children in these schools to perform poorly; their struggles would not realize a better decisions that can make a better world.

Hence, because of that:

1. Kole Intellectual Forum has partly allocated some fund it generated from: the donors through GlobalGiving project http://goto.gg/31562; other partners in development and its members to construct Academic Centre of Excellence at Apach Parish, Aboke Sub County, Kole District, Northern Uganda. It is about 80% of completion as per the photo attached. When completed, it will be a place where better data will be generated, better decisions arrived, and strongest believe because of that we will transform our society, leading to better world.
2. Having being led by data collected in the last three years ago (2016); and having found out that, education is a sector that was most affected by war and government policy on education; particularly, in Northern Uganda, with Girls doubled marginalized; Kole Intellectual Forum, therefore, concentrated our its activities on supporting mainly seventeen girls of Angic primary school, in Bala Sub County in Kole District, Kole district, Northern Uganda. In the history of the school, the 17 girls managed to complete primary seven successfully in 2018. The only challenge is that, because of the aftermath effect of war; not all their parents are able to take them to the next level of education.
3. Advocacy on the patronage of education

By November 2018, Kole intellectual Forum has launch a number of strategies to campaign for the patronage of education particularly in Kole district:

i)                    Campaign in the churches

a)      At Aumi 9, PAG church

b)      At Aumi 9, Catholic Church

c)       At Aumi 9, Protestant church

ii)                   Campaign in schools

a)      At Wigua Primary school

b)      Angic primary school

c)       St Benardictnite Nursary and Primary school

d)      Caroline Primary school

e)      Apedi Primary School

f)       Acankado Nursary and Primary School

iii)                 Promoted Music, Dance and Drama in schools

a)      Angic primary school

b)      Wigua Primary School

c)       Caroline primary school

d)      Acankado Nursary and primary school

Links:

• Kole Intellectual Forum project page and website