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DataLiteracy and Adult Basic Education (LABE) is an indigenous non-government
organization (NGO) founded in 1989. LABE is dedicated to empowering
communities through providing innovative intergenerational family learning
opportunities. We promote literacy practices for lifelong learning covering
early childhood care and development, after-school home support and adult
education, particularly in underserved and rural areas. By partnering with
families, schools, and local authorities, we transform lives through a Family
Basic Education (FABE) approach, ensuring that every child and adult has
access to quality basic education in home-based learning environments.
Our FABE Approach
Is a whole family intergenerational approach that makes learning across all ages and generations a reality, supporting the growth and development of the entire family. It combines individual learning for children and adults, and family members’ learning with and from each other at home, school and in Home Learning centres.
FABE builds on the idea of lifelong and life-wide literacies and learning as a family-centered process, where educational growth for parents can enhance the educational experience and outcomes of children.
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Where we Operate
We operate in 4 refugee-hosting districts of Terego, Koboko, Obongi, Yumbe in the West Nile sub region, with refugees living alongside host communities and 2 post conflict districts of Gulu and Nwoya in the Northern region of Uganda. Apart from Gulu which has a mix of both rural and urban characteristics because of Gulu city, these districts are mainly characterized as rural; most of their population lives in villages and engages in subsistence farming, they are faced with infrastructure challenges, including a road, communication, water, and electricity networks that is limited and underdeveloped; they have underresourced education and social services systems. In Gulu, just like in the other districts, LABE’s interventions are
done in the most rural,disadvantaged and underresourced communities.
Our History
LABE is Born
A group of Makerere University Adult Education undergraduate students started to facilitate adult literacy and English classes for refugees from Sudan, Rwanda, Congo and Somalia.
UNESCO Award Winner!
Wins the UNESCO Noma Literacy Award and Pilots the Family Basic Education (FABE) approach in Eastern Uganda.
The Innovator
Receives a Mashariki Innovations in Local Governance Award and a UN-HABITAT MILGAP Sub-Region Award for community participation.
Going Up North
Receives funding to operate in West Nile and Northern Uganda supporting Mother Tongue Education.
Widens Scope of Work
Widens its scope of work to include basic education for children and teacher development. Receives funding for a 5- year special initiative project to pioneer the delivery of non-formal Home-Based ECD in 8 districts.
Ministry of Education and Sports comes aboard
Commences work with the National Curriculum Development Centre (NCDC) to develop the Complimentary Learning Framework for early Childhood Care and Education, the Daily Routine Guide and an approved Home Based ECD Tool Kit
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