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Daily Monitor Wednesday March 10 2021 Students of Spore Primary school perform a play at the school premises in the past. PHOTO/FILE/COURTESY. Summary There are 77 pupils preparing to sit for Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) later this month, including two visually-impaired. Advertisement Special needs pupils at Spire Road Primary School in Jinja City are struggling to implement the standard operating procedures (SOPs) because the more-friendly pupils who act as their guides are in lower classes which have not been cleared to return. The school has about 54 visually-impaired pupils and the ...

Daily Monitor Monday March 08 2021 Ms Esther Nakimera, mother of Baker Kawooya cries while giving her heart-breaking testimony. Inset clockwise; Ms Mercy Natukunda wife of abducted Vincet Makenya; Ms Eron Nanyonga, wife of missing Vincent Nalumoso, 28; Ms Stella Nayiga, wife of hijacked Kassim Miggade and Mr Matthew Kafeero, brother of kidnapped Michael Ssemuddu Advertisement Eron Nanyonga, wife of  Vincent Nalumoso, 28                          I have three children with my husband, and I have been moving since December 1, 2020 to any remand centre [that I know] to express the k...

Daily Monitor Tuesday March 02 2021 Advertisement At least 1,400 women in Bugiri District are now able to fend for themselves through a cage fish farming project funded by United Nations (UN) women agency. The Shs2.6b project, which started in 2019, is based on research by the UN Women agency on gender gaps in agriculture production, which found Bugiri District wanting.  It is set to end on December 31 and is co-funded by Standard Bank South Africa, and the Swedish government, in partnership with Increasing Women Economic Empowerment (IWEE). Mr Maxime Houinato, the UN Women country represent...

  As schools reopen for sub-candidate classes today, many teachers will not return to classrooms due to low salaries and poor working conditions worsened by the one-year closure due to the COVID-19 lockdown. This comes as semi-candidates are set to return to school today. Many of the non-returning teachers mainly in private schools, faced with no payment and other challenges of the lockdown, ventured into alternative income-generating projects. However, others in government-aided schools, despite having been receiving their monthly salaries, have also abandoned teaching after discovering bet...

Daily Monitor Tuesday March 02 2021 Teenage mothers with their babies in Teobia Village, Kole District, on November 16 last year. Thousands of school girls across the country will not return to school after getting pregnant or married during the Covid-19 lockdown. PHOTO | FILE Summary Policy gaps. Child rights activists said Uganda has a vast number of laws, policies and programmes and if put in practice, they would effectively end child marriage. Mr Gerald Baale, the Kamwenge senior probation and social welfare officer, noted that despite the many laws and policies in place, the country con...