Kasangati gets learning centre
Jun 01, 2003
Are you a candidate living in Kasangati and wondering where to do your private reading? The perfect place is Kasangati telecentre. It has spacious rooms, is quiet and conducive for serious study.
By Charity Kalebbo
Are you a candidate living in Kasangati and wondering where to do your private reading? The perfect place is Kasangati telecentre. It has spacious rooms, is quiet and conducive for serious study.
Total silence ushered me into one of the rooms. Though the grave-like silence gripped me so hard, I braved it and greeted one young man seated next to the door.
Joel Ssekimpi, the acting director of the telecentre, was not receptive until he realised he was talking to the press.
According to Ssekimpi Kasangati telecentre is the baby of the Education ministry in the Buganda kingdom. The aim was to the learning process of the people in Kyadondo County.
The well-stocked centre has eight rooms. Seven of them are reading rooms with large tables and benches. One is the major library with books on the shelves and five computers.
The library was not vry busy when Education Vision visited it. There were two people seated each at a computer. And two others seated at a table in the middle of the room reading story books. There was no other major activity. The centre looked deserted save for the school that came for a tour after an hour.
“The telecentre is open to all the people of Kyandondo irrespective of tribal or religious affiliations. Despite this few people are utilising it,†says Ssekimpi.
This is partly because it is a new place but also because they have to pay a fee of sh5,000 per month to be able to use the facilities at the centre.
“The elderly people in Kasangati find it hard to come to the telecentre. It is the educated who easily walk in and out,†says Ssekimpi.
The telecentre provides computer packages like introduction in Microsoft word at sh30,000 for the whole package. They also provide newspapers.
There are plans to install public pay phones, a photocopying machine and a dish so that to make internet services cheaper and closer to the community.
“The challenge, however, is that the dish for the internet costs $6,000 [sh12m]. This money we don’t have at the moment,†laments Ssekimpi.
The centre also hopes to increase on the number of computer packages as well as opening canteens.
The telecentre was officially opened by Ronald Muwenda Mutebi, the Kabaka of Buganda on April 4, 2003. He was accompanied by Mulwanya Muli Semogerere the Prime Minister of Buganda kingdom.
Since then the officials at the telecentre have been working hand in hand with the Buganda educational committee members in Kyandondo county.
The committee includes Joy Male the headteacher of Gayaza high school and the head of Kyandondo county (Kago).
Their job is to encourage people, specially students to utilise the centre.
Are you a candidate living in Kasangati and wondering where to do your private reading? The perfect place is Kasangati telecentre. It has spacious rooms, is quiet and conducive for serious study.
Total silence ushered me into one of the rooms. Though the grave-like silence gripped me so hard, I braved it and greeted one young man seated next to the door.
Joel Ssekimpi, the acting director of the telecentre, was not receptive until he realised he was talking to the press.
According to Ssekimpi Kasangati telecentre is the baby of the Education ministry in the Buganda kingdom. The aim was to the learning process of the people in Kyadondo County.
The well-stocked centre has eight rooms. Seven of them are reading rooms with large tables and benches. One is the major library with books on the shelves and five computers.
The library was not vry busy when Education Vision visited it. There were two people seated each at a computer. And two others seated at a table in the middle of the room reading story books. There was no other major activity. The centre looked deserted save for the school that came for a tour after an hour.
“The telecentre is open to all the people of Kyandondo irrespective of tribal or religious affiliations. Despite this few people are utilising it,†says Ssekimpi.
This is partly because it is a new place but also because they have to pay a fee of sh5,000 per month to be able to use the facilities at the centre.
“The elderly people in Kasangati find it hard to come to the telecentre. It is the educated who easily walk in and out,†says Ssekimpi.
The telecentre provides computer packages like introduction in Microsoft word at sh30,000 for the whole package. They also provide newspapers.
There are plans to install public pay phones, a photocopying machine and a dish so that to make internet services cheaper and closer to the community.
“The challenge, however, is that the dish for the internet costs $6,000 [sh12m]. This money we don’t have at the moment,†laments Ssekimpi.
The centre also hopes to increase on the number of computer packages as well as opening canteens.
The telecentre was officially opened by Ronald Muwenda Mutebi, the Kabaka of Buganda on April 4, 2003. He was accompanied by Mulwanya Muli Semogerere the Prime Minister of Buganda kingdom.
Since then the officials at the telecentre have been working hand in hand with the Buganda educational committee members in Kyandondo county.
The committee includes Joy Male the headteacher of Gayaza high school and the head of Kyandondo county (Kago).
Their job is to encourage people, specially students to utilise the centre.