STEM Learning Prepares Ugandan Students for Careers in Floriculture

Floriculture is currently a fast-growing sector of agriculture in Uganda. The industry has experienced remarkable growth in recent years, presenting significant opportunities for high-quality careers. STEM education (learning in science, technology,…

Why Ugandan Girls Need Education To Become Leaders

Education is a powerful resource that not only lays the foundation for individual life success, but holds the key to transforming entire societies. This is especially vital in low-income nations with severe gender inequalities. Investing in…

Why Grade School Scholarships Are Critical For Ugandan Students 

Low- and middle-income Americans are all too familiar with the need to mitigate the costs of higher education by winning scholarships. In low-income countries like Uganda, however, scholarship funding plays an even more critical role in shaping…

The Costs of Grade School in Uganda

Many people in wealthy nations like the US associate school tuition with either college or exclusive private K-12 schools. In Uganda, however, tuition and fees are required to enroll in  virtually all public and private grade schools. In addition,…

Non-Financial Barriers to Education in Uganda

Students in Uganda face an array of serious obstacles to completing even their primary and secondary school education. Many of these have to do with poverty and anemic school funding, but there are other types of challenges as well. Here are…

Financial Barriers to Education In Uganda

Education is a fundamental human right that should be accessible to all children and teens. However, even grade school education in Africa often comes with significant financial barriers that prevent many children from getting a basic education.…
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The Mental Health Benefits of Extracurricular Sports For Kids

For many parents, it’s easy to see the physical benefits that children can gain from playing sports. Yet athleticism also supports children’s mental health and cognitive development in surprisingly impactful ways. Here are just a few of…

The Physical Benefits of Extracurricular Sports for Kids

Many parents think of extracurricular activities like organized sports as a simple leisure (or even luxury) activity for their children. In reality, the benefits of sports for youth offer surprisingly varied and far-reaching physical health…

The Primary School System in Uganda

Americans are familiar with a grade school structure consisting of preschool or pre-K education, elementary school, middle or junior high school, and high school. Grade school systems elsewhere in the world may have a similar structure, but…

Key Traits of High-Quality Schools in Uganda

All conscientious parents want their children to attend good schools. When they have the opportunity to choose where their child completes primary or secondary education—as is the case in Uganda—a little parental homework can go a long way…

Things To Know About the Wet Seasons in Uganda

Many Americans are accustomed to having four seasons in the year, and plenty of us look forward to spring for relief from harsh winter weather. However, in tropical countries near the equator—like Indonesia, Brazil, and Uganda—there are…

The Crises That Orphaned Ugandans in the 1980s and 1990s

Although many Americans have heard little about it, the 1980s and 1990s in Uganda were devastating periods in the country’s history, which has lasting effects today. They were marked by a combination of crises that left millions of children…

The Importance of Clean Water Access for Ugandan Children

Having readily available clean water for drinking and hygiene is essential for the health and well-being of people in any community. But whereas residents of wealthy nations typically have only to turn on a tap to use this resource, there are…

Things To Know About Accelerated Learning in Uganda

In January 2022, Ugandan schools reopened after over a year and a half, the longest lockdown in the entire world. It soon became evident that, as had been the case after lockdowns even in wealthy nations, students had fallen behind in their…

STEM Education Measures in Uganda

Although you’re doubtless familiar with the new emphasis on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education in US schools and youth programming, you might be wondering how other countries are faring in this regard. Unsurprisingly,…

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