Communities lobby for new classroom block for St. Anthony Bukasa
Following the Village Budget Club (VBC) monitoring exercise in March 2012, the VBCs in Wakiso discovered that the pupils of St Anthony Bukasa New Model School Primary 1 and Primary 4 pupils were sharing the same class room. This was a menace to the teachers and the concentration levels for these children were very low. The Village Budget Club members on finding out this situation went ahead to share with the bigger community and in this meeting it was revealed that because of this situation, many children had left school simply because their parents had lost trust and confidence in the capacity of the school to provide quality education to their children and by the time of the VBC monitoring the school had a population of 40 only pupils. 12 pupils mobilized and they got 42 The community agreed to present this matter to the district leaders and lobby them to support for government towards this school. An interface meeting was held, the VBCs and the community met duty bear...