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