It is these areas I am going to focus on at the training sessions next week. I spoke with two of the teachers who were keen to have support with positive behaviour management strategies, ideas on making literacy and numeracy skills relevant to these children and their culture, developing social and communication skills and support with teaching money in particular. The centre then helps the mothers to sell these items for money so they can afford for their children to attend school once they leave the SEN centre.
As well as these sessions, the mothers make items to sell the centre buys all resources and the mothers make jewellery, Christmas decorations and door mats. We spoke about the wonderful things the centre does including group therapy sessions every day for an hour where mothers and their children come for support and training (mainly for the children with physical disabilities). The centre has 4 therapists, 3 teachers and 2 mentors (they help and support the children and teachers when they return to mainstream education). When we arrived we were met with the biggest smiles I have ever seen and so many hugs I couldn’t keep count! We were shown round and introduced to the headteacher who spoke very proudly about all they do. For more information on the project see their website Īfter eating some lunch, all prepared and cooked at the office for the staff, I set off with two other teachers to visit Mukisa- a SEN centre for children with severe learning difficulties. Meeting the team today was an inspiration – their drive and motivation to help so many children and young people is unbelievable. Girls between the ages 9-16 who are not accessing education spend six months in these centres to get them back on track to achieving an education. CRANE (Children at Risk Action Network) are 22 ‘creative centres’ or ‘organisations’ who work with VIVA, a religious organisation, to provide as many opportunities as possible for girls in the Kampala region. She gave me a brief description of what the project is all about.
I have been given a bit longer to sleep! I woke up sporadically throughout the morning to the most amazing bird calls, as well as some impressive honking of horns! It sounds crazy busy and I’ve not even stepped foot out of the guest house yet! As you can see, there is a beautiful view which I am enjoying whilst I wait for my lift to join the team! Very excited to get started!Īt 1:30pm one of the team from CRANE came to pick me up from the guest house and we walked together to the offices – a short 5 minute walk away. Johanna and the other ladies had arrived the day before so got up at 6am to go and see the team we are working with.
Poor Johanna had a rather abrupt wake-up call at 4am when I knocked on the bedroom door!
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David, a driver for the charity, picked me up and drove me the 45minutes to Kampala where I am staying with three other teachers from the UK. Follow her adventures and experiences here:Īfter a 17hour trip, I arrived in Entebbe at 3am local time. Our very own, Programme Development Lead, Rachel Coulson is spending some of her summer training teachers in Uganda.
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