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East Africa: Displaced Kenyan teachers recruited in Ugandan primary schools
Tue. February 19, 2008 12:20 am.- By Bonny Apunyu. -
(SomaliNet) Displaced Kenyan refugees qualified as teachers have been recruited to teach in nursery and primary schools in Eastern Uganda.
Ms Yumiko Takashima, the head of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Uganda said.
Takashima said, Save the Children Uganda, a non governmental organisation, is expected to pay the teachers. The move is aimed at making the refugees self-reliant.
Ms Takashima said secondary school teachers will not benefit from the offer due to inadequate funds.
"We have secured funds for paying people who will be teaching in local primary and nursery schools," Ms Takashima told Daily Nation on Feb ruary 16.
She said the organisation was determined to help the displaced persons until calm returns to their country.
There was, however, an unclear fate for teachers in other camps in the Eastern region as beneficiaries were those camped at Mulanda, about 30 kilometres from the border town of Malaba.
There are currently more than 7,000 Kenyan refugees camped at Mulanda, Busia town, Manafwa, Bukwa and Kapchorwa.
Those camped at Mulanda were transferred from St. Jude Primary School in Malaba due to inadequate accommodation.
She said the organisation had also secured enough food for the refugees at Mulanda camp but decried the insufficient health facilities since they are compelled to take patients to Tororo District Hospital, some 20 kilometres away.-Daily Monitor
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