Katutandike - Let's Get Started - Transforming Lives in Uganda

The Read Enjoy And Discover (READ) Project which focuses on the promotion of reading for pleasure in Universal Primary Education (UPE) Schools in Kampala District, began in 2008 in three Primary Schools (pilot Schools) for a period of three years. Starting 2011 this Project is being scaled up to six Primary Schools for each year and as before, we have continued to work very closely with Kampala City Council through the DEO's, CCT's and inspectors to implement, monitor and sustain the Project in each of the partner Schools.

Our implementation strategy focuses on introducing the Project in clusters of three Schools for a period of six months intensively and another six months- installing sustainability mechanisms. The first three Schools that were chosen by Kampala City Council together with the Ka Tutandike Literacy Committee and management are Kyambogo Primary School which is a government School in Nakawa Division with 681 children and 22 teachers. The School has a unit for special needs where children are attended to by a trained teacher and latter mixed up with the other children in the other classes. Interesting about this School was the fact that the library records had been kept from as far as 1999, with a clear indication that over 60% of the books were outdated. The second School out of the three Schools is Wandegeya Muslim Primary School which is also a government School in Kawempe Division with 330 pupils and ten teachers.  This is the school were we pretested our tools during the Situational Analysis in 2008 before we actually started working in the pilot three schools i.e. 2009-2010. The School has a large room which has been set aside for library space but with very few books approximately between, 50-80 Story books.  The third School is St Joseph Mapeera Memorial Primary School which is also a government School in Lubaga Division with 280 pupils and seven teachers. According to the Head Teacher, the School was started in 1963 and sits on church land, most of which has been cut off for future development to the extent that the children have very little space for play. Most of the children are dependants and the School does not have space allocated for a library.

Ka Tutandike will work with the above Schools to ensure that space is allocated for reading, appropriate reading materials are identified and that children fully utilize the available reading materials through activities that will enable the children to read for pleasure - and thereby enhance their literacy levels.

For more information please contact our Programme Manager :

Esther Wamweta This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it