Besides the mainstream education structures, WIU has “vocationalised” secondary education. Through this initiative, students attain vocational skills alongside secondary education. As a result, the students leave secondary education equipped with entrepreneurial skills that they can put to use. Those that may drop out of school leave with professional qualifications awarded by the Directorate of Industrial Training (DIT).
WIU is implementing the Double Shift Schooling System (DSSS) in 27 primary schools within Kyangwali, Imvepi, Rhino Camp, Palabeck-Lamwo, Palorinya-Obongi and Nakivale reaching out to 56,102 learners. The Double Shift School System (DSSS) is an approach where a school has two shifts each day, with one group of learners -studying early in the day and a second group later in the afternoon to reduce overcrowding in classrooms. This has expanded access to education by carefully and equitably sharing available resources among a larger group of learners. It has enabled a higher transition and absorption of students into primary education, ensuring that fewer refugee children are left behind.
Auma Kevin, a Ugandan national is an Accelerated Education Program (AEP) teacher at Paluda Secondary School in Palabek refugee settlement. She teaches both level 1 and 2 and is a witness to how successful AEP
Uganda hosts the largest number of refugees in Africa, an estimated 1.45 million people of whom 60% are children. The implication is that thousands of children from refugee and host communities are not in school.
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