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Author: Kasinja Tonny Henry (26)
Date posted: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:11:27 PST
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- Hey,
- My name is Kasinja Tonny Henry, you can call me Kasinja because it distinguish me from any body else in the world. Am 23 years of age. I was born in a small village in masaka district in Uganda, so am a ugandan. I studied my primary and secondary school in a third world school in masaka where teachers were not enough to teach us and text books were not available because they were expensive.I left masaka and Joined Makerere University in Kampala city to study a degree in Agricultural Engineering, currently am in my final semester of study and am specialising in water resource engineering. In march 2007, i handed in my first A'level biology manuscript to MK publishers ( U ) LTD for publication to help poor students in uganda, it did not work out because the books turned out to be expensive. In the same month, 5 other friends proposed that we should start a charity group to write, publish and distribute books to poor students and third world schools with the aim of reducing illiteracy levels and poverty in uganda and also to bring equality in both students from urban and rural schools as they are competing for the same resources yet students in urban schools have all the necessary resources. We started off, some members wrote manuscripts but failed to publish because of limited resources. Now we embarked on volunteering in schools around Kampala and offer free teaching services to those who did not have enough teachers and availed notes to them. Last year , the schools we volunteered in should an improvement in perfomance of national exams and we were appreciated. This project i believe will work well not only in uganda but even in other developing countries. But what we need is commitment to come up with a good program. We need to publish by our selves, distribute the books and offer the voluntary services to schools. We also thought of starting our own charity schools to make an impact in the education sector, Since education is the key to sucess. Thank you very much. Keep discussing, we are almost there!!
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