Breaking Basic Education’s Iron Triangle of
Access, Cost and Quality
Millions of children in Uganda do not have access to quality basic education, more than 700,000 women do not have learning spaces within their reach, 80% of families do not have the ability to pay for fee-based education services and 30% have to borrow to afford their children’s education. Individuals in these families are often likely to have low employment opportunities, earning potential and suffer adverse health outcomes. LABE is an indigenous national non-government organization working with families to ensure that everyone who needs education gets it.
"This is good. This visit has given me more hope that as the government, we can also use the same model as we are trying to implement our early childhood development centres policy that will see every child get quality education"
Mr. Alex Kakooza
Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education and Sports
‘In my view, finally people are seeingthe use of HLCs. At first, they were not valuing the HLC. Now that schools are closed, even teachers are coming to teach from the HLC,and parents must now send their children including those in primary school to learn from here.’
Lakot Lilly
Parent Educator Wiipolo Home Learning Centre, Gulu district.
I just wish all the programmes were run like that… it’s a gem to have in the {funding} portfolio
Interview with Comic Relief, SURE Final Evaluation Repo
Home Learning Centres are the cheapest means since they require the community to work together The HLC concept is one that can bring education nearer to communities... The approach has also made it possible, for the first time, for the idea of integrated ECD services to be provided in one place. LABE has demonstrated that local, low cost, intergenerational, community-led HLCs can be established even in the remotest rural contexts.
SURE project Mid-term Review Report, Assoc. Prof. Godfrey Ejuu et.al, Dept. of ECE Kyambogo University