Uganda: 7, 000 Teachers Needed in Refugee Camps, Says Report

22 November 2018

Kampala — A new Global Education Monitoring (GEM) report has named Uganda for having the best practice of bringing humanitarian and development partners together to fund its education plan that looks at reaching more than 675,000 refugees and host students per year.

However, the report titled 'Building bridges, not walls' notes that Uganda needs an extra 7, 000 primary school teachers to educate the refugees which is estimated to cost the country $15 million (Shs56 billion) in salary payments over the next three years.

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