Uganda: Challenges of Providing Text Books in Rural Areas in Uganda

On a quiet morning the librarian of the Nambi Sseppuuya Community Resource Centre in Igombe Village, Buwenge Sub-county, Jinja District in eastern Uganda, Mr Isa Maganda, is busy sorting out story books that he is going to transport to Muguluka Primary School under the centre's mobile library project known as the Bicycle Schools Outreach Programme.

"I have sorted story books which will interest Primary Six and Seven pupils," Mr Maganda tells the Daily Monitor as he packs Lusoga, Luganda, English, animal and youth story book series in a fabricated metallic box with two mats to lay the books on at Muguluka Primary School.

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