Students and teaches value our book boxes

We thought we'd like to share with you some first-hand testimonials from students and teachers in Kamuli to demonstrate the value of our book boxes.
 
Shamim Abdul is a student at Kamuli College School. She’s pictured here at the UDS book box with the school librarian, looking up words in a dictionary.
Shamim says the book box is a crucial resource for the school. She always turns to these books as, she says, the books supplied by her school don’t give her the information she needs.

Her teachers told us that Shamim has a curiosity and thirst for knowledge that goes beyond the school curriculum. She doesn’t want to learn just enough to pass her school exams, which is what she gets from the school’s own books. Shamin herself told us that the UDS books are an avenue to a much broader education.

The librarian, Esther Nambi, is also delighted at the book box service. She says some of the private schools have no text books at all, so UDS is filling a need. She urges UDS to continue offering the service - not only for the benefit of the schools, but also for the students since they are the “pillars of our country” as she puts it.

Alira Martha is 17 years old, now in her fourth year at Bugabula Secondary School. On her own admission, she wasted the first two years, missing classes, playing truant, and spending her days hanging round the town. But her poor results in exams at the end of year two turned out to be a wake-up call.

Her teachers suggested she began carrying out her own research, so Martha turned to the UDS book box in her school. She says from that time on she began to do better. “My performance kept on improving that I managed to pass with a second grade in s.4 (fourth year) first term and (got) a first grade in mocks”, she told us. Martha is expecting to get a first grade in her final exams.

Now Martha encourages her fellow students to always aim higher, since education is the key to success. She’s now also asking her teachers to put in more effort so that students perform better, and advising school administrators to construct a library for the school to enable students concentrate with their studies. She thanked UDS for providing the books that enabled her to turn her education around. She hopes UDS will continue to provide even more books – especially books on science.

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