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329 - Uganda Society for Disabled Children (USDC), Uganda
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ONTACT
Uganda Society for Disabled Children
Ms. Dolorence Naswa Were
Uganda
www.usdc@usdc.or.ug+256 70 1557 290
dolorence.were@usdc.or.ugO
VERALL GOAL
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MISSION
The project sees its aim in the contribution to the rise of completion rates of primary-school learners with disabilities.
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HE SOLUTION THAT HAS BEEN DEVELOPED
In Uganda inadequate methods and learning content, that has made available by the teachers, as well as curriculums,
inadequate qualified teachers and the general society cause exclusion of children with disabilities from the education
system. Only 9 % of children with disabilities attend primary school and only 6 % of them complete primary school and
continue to attend a secondary school. Furthermore there's an existing lack concerning a functional framework that
ensures inclusive education, even though the government has introduced "Universal Primary Education", which is
meant to be a program to ensure that all children, whether they have disabilities or not, are able to attend school. As a
solution to these challenges, the project increases the participation of all learners, including especially those with
disabilities, and their parents at school and at a community level. It also qualifies teachers to support all children in their
learning processes, with a learner centred approach, and to give them the possibility to participate in the education
system.
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OUNTRIES IN WHICH IT WAS DEVELOPED
: Uganda
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OUNTRY
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COUNTRIES IN WHICH IT IS OPERATING
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Uganda
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ACTS ABOUT SIZE AND SCOPE
1.
Nine men and nine female teachers have been qualified as master trainers in the intensive child-to-child
methodology, which corresponds to more than 10 % of the teachers that teach at the nine participating schools
2.
A refresher training for 171 persons was done by the master trainers in in-class and out of class activities
3.
At the end of the second quarter, in the second year of the project, a 68 % increase in enrolment levels of children
with disabilities had been realized in the 9 participating schools of the inclusive education project with 374 females
and 458 men totalling to 842 children with disabilities