The Kabarole Woman Member of Parliament Hon. Sylvia Rwabwogo has called upon
parents, families & guardians to positively support education of their
children both at home and at school. She said when schools and families work
together, children do better and stay in schools longer and this positively
influences the child’s education outcomes, we need to be active as parents and
caregivers if we are to reduce on the number of failures in secondary schools
in Rwenzori Region & Uganda as a whole.
Hon. Sylvia Rwabwogo said these while appearing live on
ToroDev supported weekly radio program “Orukurato” on 4th February, 2017 which
program is aired live every Saturday 8-10pm on Hits Fm. Hon. Sylvia further said
that our country is still facing challenges on attaining the policy of having a
secondary school in every sub county something that has made children move long
distances to access education which to some extent has affected their
performance. ‘’We have many schools
without science laboratories and our children have failed to compete with those
schools that are well equipped with laboratories, I do appeal to the ministry
of Education to construct science laboratories in schools where they are
lacking to improve on the performance of science subjects for our children
which are marketable in Uganda today’’, said Hon. Slyvia Rwabwogo. Government
through the ministry of education should be strict on school inspectors to
improve on teacher’s supervision hence reducing absenteeism of teachers and
students.
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| Hon. Slyvia Rwabwogo Woman Member of parliament Kabarole district |
While commenting on the operation wealth creation; a
government program to increase income at household level Hon. Slyvia said the
program has not achieved it’s intended objectives and called upon officials
heading it to involve experts who will teach local farmers modern farming
methods and also urged government to consult the beneficiaries whenever they
are to supply them with seed which should be quantity, quality & timely.
Mr. Kyaligonza emphasized the need to guide farmers on seasons of planting and
also asked government to create avenues where farmers can sell their products
at a profit.
During the two hours live discussion listeners participated
through call-ins and sms platforms; about 30 people called in. ‘’ Government need to construct science laboratories
in most schools and also support vocational skills training in the country to
improve performance of science subjects which will make our children job
creators not job seekers in future’’, said Robert Mugume a caller from Buhesi in Kabarole district, ‘’As parents we need to improve on how we
are fulfilling our roles and responsibilities especially supporting our
children to access education& supervising them to improve in their
performances’’, said Margret Kobugabe a caller from Kabende in Kabarole
district, ‘’the government should put in
place close supervision to students and teachers in order to reduce school drop-out & absenteeism
of teachers in order to improve education performances in our schools’’, said Francis Asaba a caller from Kihura in
Kyenjojo district.
We are grateful to SIDA, NED, SPIDER, ICT4DEM, CIPESA & all other development
partners for the financial and technical support to run these programs.
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