Scholastic Material Support to orphans
NIRP Uganda provides support to a minimum package of scholastic materials as a way of reducing school drop outs resulting from poor facilitation and thus promote the education of orphans and other vulnerable children.
Beneficiaries: Orphans and other vulnerable children (OVCs), girls and boys both in primary and secondary school. Beneficiaries came from the operation areas of Buwunga and Bisanje sub-counties respectively. Scholastic Materials distributed: - Exercise books, Pen, pencils, Geometry sets and Foot ruler
Challenges: The number of OVC continues to grow with dwindling resources to provide scholastic materials to OVC. We still need more support to see that we can support more children not attending school due to lack of scholastic materials. Lack of adequate feeding at school also still affects the performance of these poor and needy children at school.
Majority of these OVCs are coming from extremely poor households without enough food, and yet schools also do not have school feeding programs, making these children to study on empty stomachs. This affects the performance in class and as a result of poor results many drop out due to frustration.
We continue to build the capacities of children and their families to do agriculture and create food security in their households.
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