Scottish students donate school items to Arua school

By Bosco King

A team of students from Scotland has donated reading tables and textbooks to Muni Girls S.S. Arua.

The group was led by Katie Barclays, a student of mathematics from Kilmarnock, Scotland (UK). They were at the northern Ugandan school for their teaching practice.

The team was connected to Muni Girls by Mathew Isaac Akile, who coordinated the visit.

Barclays thanked the students for dedicating themselves to learn, something she said motivated her to support the school with such items as textbooks of Physics, Biology, Chemistry and Mathematics to help better their performance.

The visiting student encouraged the Ugandan girls to work together and have the determination to succeed in both their studies and in life.

Jenevieve Avako, the school’s head girl, thanked the Scotland team – led by Barclays – for imparted to them knowledge as well as offer them school items.

The textbooks, she said, will aid their education and encourage a reading culture that was lacking at the school.

On her part, Muni Girls headteacher Grace Draru expressed her gratitude to the visiting team’s gesture towards her school. Theirs, she said, was a positive gesture towards girl child education.

The books, especially, offered a sense of relief to the school which is financially struggling, according to the school head who thanked Akile for coordinating the visit.

Akile works as councilor for bursaries in Arua municipality.