ROTARIANS URGED GOVERNMENT.
Rotarians in Sonde have advised the government for policy change to make basic education a priority and to reinstate public libraries all over the country as a way of eradicating illiteracy in Uganda.
The Rotarians were celebrating Drop Everything and Read - DEAR Day across the country at Jinja – Misindye C.O.U primary school where they provided schools with basic reading tips and also reached out to seven schools with textbooks.
Proscovia Nakawunde, the Head teacher jinja misindye Primary school commended the sonde Rotarians for providing them with the books citing shortage of reading books, she noted that the pupils read in groups a policy which is not effective.
"With the population of 450 pupils, the school has reading books, they don't have enough desks, they read in groups seven p...