Stephen Omoko, coordinator of Soroti secondary's Connecting Classrooms programme, delivered the seedlings to Katine.
This is the second phase of the Connecting Classrooms programme, which now involves 20 African countries.
Students and teachers from Soroti district, in north-east Uganda, have received training in using puppets to communicate messages, as part of the British Council's Connecting Classrooms programme.
The pack was developed out of the British Council's Connecting Classrooms programme which helps school communities to develop long-term joint projects between people in different societies and cultures, including China.
Last year, Katine primary school teamed up with Soroti secondary school and St Francis school for the blind in Uganda and All Saints Catholic high school in Sheffield, England, under the British Council's Connecting Classrooms programme.
Teachers from Katine primary and secondary schools, Soroti secondary school, St Francis School for the Blind in nearby Madera, and Madera secondary school, partners in the Connecting Classrooms programme in the district, were taught how to make and to use puppets as teaching aids, while students received lessons on the communicative power of the puppets.
On Friday, Simon Emou, 36, a teacher at Katine primary school, boarded a plane for the first time and flew to Addis Ababa, in Ethiopia, to take part in the launch of the British Council's Connecting Classrooms programme that will link his school with those in Soroti district, in which Katine is found, and Sheffield, England.
By Jacob Kersey and Myriam Dems MONROVIA, Liberia, and New York, USA, 28 February 2012 – When Benkie and Moses, both 18, joined the Connecting Classrooms programme in Liberia, they had no idea that they would soon meet the President of their country.
The British Council is making the donation as part of its Dreams and Teams and Connecting Classrooms programmes running in the Soroti district of Uganda and in Sheffield in the UK.
