Currently taking a career break, I have decided to give up some of my time to visit Uganda and help with the Education Uganda charity.

Education Uganda is a registered charity based in Hampshire and formed in 2006. Its trustees are mainly experienced educationalists whose main aim is to improve primary education in Uganda by the use of individual blackboards, known in Uganda as slates, following techniques used successfully and now fully embedded in English primary schools using individual whiteboards.

Living in Broughton over the past couple of years has allowed me to learn more about the Education Uganda charity. Learning about the charity has incentivised me to get involved and help the local children in Uganda.

See below for current achievments of the charity, which i'm hoping to be able to contribute to in my upcoming visit.

In the Kasese District of western Uganda the adoption of universal primary education has resulted in classes of up to 100 children with one, often poorly trained, teacher standing at the front. Following an initial fact finding visit in summer 2005, a group of Hampshire teachers worked in a teacher training college and four selected model Ugandan schools in the summer of 2007 to develop the use of the individual blackboards and to train Ugandan teachers in their use. This initial venture was hugely successful, and since then our growing team of expert Ugandan practioners has introduced interactive teaching through the use of slates into 200 schools teaching around 100,000 children. Reports sent regularly from our Ugandan project coordinator and monitoring visits from the UK report major successes. Ugandan national examination results are starting to indicate a real advantage in using slates.