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By Ambrose Kweronda
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In Kabale—-
The rotary club of Makindye yesterday afternoon launched its 7 pillars of education, literacy focus and donated scholastic materials to use at Bugongi upper primary school in Northern division Kabale Municipality.
Mable Abigaba the president of Makindye rotary club revealed that the club has 7 pillars that the club keep on enhancing and focusing on basic education literacy, water, hygiene and sanitation. Others include, maternal and child health, disease prevention and treatment.
Abigaba revealed that the ministry of education and sports report outed 2021 revealed that only 39% have required competence in reading and the club has taken a step to enhance reading.
Through this, Makindye rotary club has done this as a way of transforming reading culture by donating 100 books, sewing machine and various knickers to females of the school.
Abigaba hopes that the sewing machine will help girls gain sanitary pads to use during their menstrual periods.
The Kabale municipal principal educational officer Mr Munyambabazi Grace the guest of honour thanked the Rotarians for having school interventions and their donations and promised them that they will continue make thoroughly reports on what given to the school.
Munyambabazi thanked the Rotarians for teaching pupils while demonstrating washing hands with water and soap and to provide a trainer to teach pupils on how to use the donated machine on to issue out sanitary pads and promised the Rotarians that today they have made a permanent relation.

The president rotary club Kabale Musiime Jimmy revealed that they donated text books and sewing machine to Two Schools that is Upper Bugongi and lower Bugongi primaries to improve on the reading culture of learners as they understand more and taught how to use the donated scholastic materials as club of Kabale they concentrate on.
Musiime in addition revealed that the donated machine is to be used successfully and felt better for the promise from the rotary club materials to use whole making sanitary pads for girls to use during menstrual periods.

Rotarians have also launched tree planting in the school and taught children how to use water and soap after using toilets

By Innocent Atuganyira
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In Kagadi—-

Kagadi district Chairperson Yosia Ndibwami B and the deputy RDC Benjamin Tumusiime have clashed with the school head teachers over the fees being charged in the ongoing nationwide Leaners Education Management Information System registration exercise in the district.
The head teachers have been charging 2000 shillings from each learner for the registration.
However during a heated meeting between the district leadership led by Ndibwami, the head teachers of both private and government aided schools held at Kagadi model Primary school in Kagadi town council on Thursday, Ndibwami explained that the registration exercise was meant to be free of charge according to the guidelines from the ministry of Education and sports.
He however explained that after being convinced by the IT experts that there was need by the schools to charge some fee to facilitate the exercise, the district leadership resolved that the schools charge 2000 shillings from each learner.
In his remarks, Deputy RDC Tumusiime also revealed that much as the exercise is supposed to be completely free of charge some schools were charging beyond the agreed amount.
He therefore threatened to arrest any school head teacher who will be found charging beyond 2000 shillings.
However the remarks by the two leaders provoked angry reactions from the school headteachers who argued that the 2000 shillings is too little to run the exercise.
The tough talking head teachers even advised the leaders to hire their own service providers if they are convinced that the 2000 shillings is enough to facilitate the exercise.
But amidst the uproar, the district chairperson and RDC directed that all school head teachers should charge only 2000 shillings from each learner, ensure that each learner accesses the Registration form and ensure their data is captured and leave the role of like entering it into the computer and uploading it onto the national web portal to the district.