LANGO – As the government prepares to reopen schools, Ministry of Education and Sports has launched home study materials in Lango region to cover both primary and secondary schools.
The home study materials will cater for primary one, four and senior five to ensure continuous learning, remedial learning and reawaken the learners.
State Minister for Sports, Denis Hamson Obua launched the distribution of the materials which will cover Kole, Alebtong, Lira, Kwania, Apac, Dokolo, Oyam and Amolatar districts.
President Yoweri Museveni closed education institutions last year as a measure to stop the spread of COVID-19 and as a result 15 million learners were sent back home. On the 1st November 2021, the government ordered the institution to resume studies.
Obua said, as they fully plan to re-open schools, stakeholders who include teachers, parents and pupils should prepare so that the exercise doesn’t take them by surprise.
Obua expressed concern over teenage pregnancy in the country saying children are not safe in the hands of their parents except in school.
He said children have become unsafe which means parents have abandoned their responsibility to guide their children.
“If children are not safe because schools were closed as a result of Covid-19, where else do you think they will be safe,” Obua asked.
According to the police and local leadership in Alebtong, 2,190 cases of teenage pregnancies were recorded in the district within the period of January to July, over 2500 in Kwania, 1,800 in Apac, 2,074 in Amolatar and more than 2,000 in Otuke.
“If nothing is done to save the situation, it will be worse in the next few months,” said Alebtong LC5 Chairperson, David Kennedy Odongo who is also the Chairperson of Lango LCV Chairpersons.
He also advised the government to fix the roofs of four primary schools in the district whose roofs were blown off.
“Alebtong district is more than ready to teach effectively if the situation allows next year,” he says.
He identified the schools whose roofs were blown off as Baropiro, Omarari, Amononeno and Amugu quran.
He said the district is setting up village education committees, parishes and sub-counties to mobilize the community to embrace education.
On secondary education, Odongo said if the government is to improve on sciences, they should build laboratories in all the schools in the sub-region and equip them.
“Unless we have functional laboratories in our schools, science will still be history,” he said.
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