Yumbe Refugee School equipped with ICT lab to enhance digital learning

Yumbe: As a way of implementing the new curriculum in rural schools, which is competence-based, MTN Uganda has donated 20 computers and internet services to Yumbe-based refugee school Ariwa Senior Secondary School.

This will help learners at the school do their own research since the new curriculum requires them to do research.

While commissioning the computer lab on Friday, Somdev Sen, the MTN Uganda Chief Marketing Officer, explained that computers will be linked to the National Curriculum Development Centre platform, enabling students and teachers to access study materials for the competence-based curriculum for lower secondary education.

He says currently the world runs on ICT, whereby it is their social corporate responsibility to help the young ones get the required knowledge so that they can fit in the future market.

Atiku Rahuman Okuonjiga, who serves as the education officer in Yumbe, the representative of the district education officer, thanked the MTN family for remembering Yumbe district and supporting Ariwa ss.

He appealed to all the partners to always fulfill the promises so that education can be enhanced in various schools for both refugees and host communities.

Acidri Richard, who works in the office of the prime minister and represented the settlement commander, requested that MTN Uganda not only stop helping Ariwa SS but also consider other schools since they are also in dire state.

He thanked them for the support they have received and said they will guard it safely so that the learners can benefit since the country is migrating from analog to digital.

Isaac Juma, a student of Ariwa SSS studying in the senior one class, says the computers given to the school will help them make proper research since they have been faced with the challenges of making research.

He says when he engaged the parents in getting him a smart phone, they denied it, saying he would use it for other purposes.

Another student Akule Aisha, a student in the senior four class, says doing research has been a challenge because some of the parents couldn’t afford to buy smartphones for the students due to some unavoidable circumstances.

Ariwa Secondary School started the first refugee intervention in 1996, but it later collapsed because it was private.

However, it restarted in 2016 with the help of the partners who supported education.

Ariwa Sub County has no government-aided school, and the stakeholders call upon the government to take over the school so that it can be permanently supported.

The school serves refugees and host community students within and outside Yumbe district.

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