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T he school chairs are gnarled tree-trunks on the hard earth floor and the desks are imaginary. Each child in Amorikot primary school (most are girls) balances her only exercise book, worn as a soft old duster, on her lap and attempts to copy the words chalked on the blackboard (supported by tree forks) with her one pen. Halfway through an English lesson, while the teachers back is turned, a hand reaches in through a hole in the mud wall as an older boy quietly passes the family pen to a sister.
This is education in Katine, a rural area of north-east Uganda, and it is highly valued. Amorikot is a community school. It was set up by parents who wanted education for their children and most especially for their daughters. The nearest government-funded primary school is more than two miles away, and while they might send their boys, they would not allow their girls to walk that distance by themselves. So this community, where families survive by growing their own food and earn less than $1 a day, pooled what money they had and set up their own school.
We are helping our children to have a better future than this one of ours, said the deputy head, Daniel Acalu. Like all the other teachers, he is from the community and is unpaid. They were approached by parents because they have been educated - all of them have O-levels. But only the recently appointed headteacher, Ben Ejadu, whose salary is paid by the district education authority, has had any teacher training.
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