The Education Programme

The main aim is to promote education for life and development. There are three main objectives for this programme, namely: i) To promote improvement of quality of education in both teaching and learning in Schools, through provision of Resource Centres with ICTs, Reference Libraries, and Secretarial Services. ii) To provide Vocational & Non-formal Education especially for the masses of School drop-out Youth, especially Girl, Orphaned and other Vulnerable Children; iii) To promote with Communities, Early Childhood Education by setting up Community Play and Nursery Schools.

Current Activities & Projects:  General activities include sensitising, motivating and educating rural communities in taking active part in the education of their children (quality of education in rural areas has drastically deteriorated). Another activity is mobilising Youth in their communities to form action groups. Projects currently include:

a) three Community Nursery Schools and a plan to set up a Community Primary School to absorb children from the Nursery Schools.

b) An ICT project in one of the Secondary Schools which is sponsored by the Ministry of Education & Sports in partnership with Uganda Communications Commission and School Net Uganda.

c) Vocational Training for the Youth especially for masses of school drop-outs. There are plans, first, to extend this training to Communities to encourage Youths in their villages to form groups to be trained in skills for businesses in their own communities. Secondly, the training is to be taken into district prisons where most of the inmates are young men and women who become hardened criminals and on release only become more of a menace to their communities.

FADO-T therefore seeks to help in making prison sentences remedial & restorative for these offenders, so as to make them better citizens on release