Redevelopment Projcets – Uganda Campus

THE NETWORK

African SOUP is a local non-governmental organisation with roots in the rural village of Nabikabala,
where it provides assistance to around 900 children and 170 families with community-driven
programmes that create lasting solutions to poverty and fuel the push for national education reform.

Its mission is to strengthen communities (empowering communities) through a change in primary
education at the national level through the active learning programme.

DESCRIZIONE DEL PROGETTO E CONTESTO

Uganda, located in East Africa, is a country that has been characterised by a relatively growing
economy in recent years, but is still facing significant challenges in several areas, including
education.

Despite progress over the decades, Uganda remains one of the countries with the lowest literacy
rates and poor access to quality education. The lack of adequate schools and infrastructure,
together with the shortage of qualified teachers, is a major obstacle to ensuring universal education.
In addition, many rural areas, such as Nabikabala, lack educational facilities or existing schools are not sufficiently equipped to offer quality education.

To address these issues, Uganda needs a continued commitment to investing adequate resources
and reforming the education system, with targeted allocations in teacher training, school
infrastructure and equitable access to education, so that every citizen has the opportunity to develop their potential.

ABF will realise, with the local partner and in dialogue with the local institutions, a pilot campus with
innovative features in the field:

• Spaces and sanitation: construction of functional spaces with water and sanitation facilities;
• Digitisation: building a computer network;
• Innovative pedagogical programmes: languages such as art, music, drama, will underpin the work on transversal and socio-emotional competences, using the fact that they are considered as subjects of study and a country objective;
• Construction of a clinic for school children and community interventions;
• Construction of community spaces.

OBJECTIVES

• Ensuring proper spaces for access to education for the students of St.Augustin;
• To increase the opportunities to access the school.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT PROCESS

Stage 1: 5 Identification of priority needs by the local project partner;

Stage 2: Design carried out by the local partner with supervision by the Italian multidisciplinary
team;

Stage 3: Execution carried out by the local project partner’s team under the supervision of the Italian technical team. In both cases, the pedagogical project based on ABF languages runs parallel to the
construction.

Stage 4: four-monthly narrative and financial reporting.

IMPACTS ON COMMUNITIES

A school building, in the Ugandan socio-political context, which in some rural areas lacks public
education and community spaces, is in itself a multifunctional garrison that represents and creates
that safe place to develop indispensable educational, public health and employment policies.

The construction of the school is the first step to make possible the development, within it, of
projects for the education and instruction of children and their families, who would otherwise not
have access to other opportunities for growth and personal redemption.

INDICATORI DI PERFORMANCE