Dokolo North Community Indicative [DNCI] which started in
2018 with one of the aims of supporting social lives has on Friday handed over
175 texts books to secondary schools in Dokolo district.
This took place at Iguli Girls’ Secondary School in Amwoma sub-county.
Prof. Okello Obura, the DNCI’s chairperson called upon the leadership of various clans to come up and support education like earlier before.
Mr. Bosco Bwonyo who’s the District Education Officer of the district noted that secondary schools status in Dokolo was “very bad, including limited teachers, reading materials and even full of dilapidated structures.”
He added that numbers of schools dropout are very many in Dokolo that needs follow up from grassroots level by DNCI.
To Moses Ejor Ongom, the retired commissioner of police said the move should be decentralized and also benefit the locals.
According to Mr. Ongom, signing MOU with beneficiaries will enable DNCI monitor what they have given out and whether it is being used well.
Doctor Richard Alinga who claims he is the first medical doctor from Dokolo, now working in Kigali, Rwanda, asked DEO to document challenges that makes children fail at schools and table to DNCI for action.
“Not only text book that can make them pass, we were taught by white men with many text books but others still failed during our time,” Alinga said.
Cecilia Barbra Atim Ogwal, the Dokolo Woman MP, said parents need to be inspired on education to make them pay.
She said the greatest polluter of the sector is disco that attract schools going children and make them fail.
MP Ogwal asked locals to desist from selling alcohol near the schools.
“Stop inculcating wrong culture to children,” Atim blames parents, adding: “This will not build them educationally.”
Rev Dick Odur then asked DNCI to also buy Bibles and distribute to schools alongside academic books.
Among schools that got text books include; Bata secondary school, Agwata secondary school, Bata seed secondary school, Iguli Girls’ secondary school and Dokolo Girls’ secondary school.
The 175 text books include different subjects of Biology, Chemistry, Geography, Maths, Physics, History and Commerce.
The association also elected Morris Eton as head of project, Mike Okonye as head of election and Prof. Okello Obura as head of finance.
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