'Before Universal Primary Education (UPE), there were 573 children; the year after, enrolment increased to 1,800, and that continues.
"UPE was a good development for any government to implement.
UPE was introduced in 1997 to benefit four children per family.
"If this rate of change continues over the next few years, the world will still be far from the goal of UPE [universal primary education] in 2015," it says.
I tell her I want to throw them a party with the $1,000-a-day per diem the festival is giving me, and she offers upe brownies she says were baked especially for me; hours later, when I see the very same treats in the Shadow Ridge Filmmaker Hospitality Center, I just want to die.
On average every child studying under the government's universal primary education (UPE) programme receives just UShs 500 (about $0.24).
"The school orchard will provide fruits both for consumption and as an income generating activity for schools to be able to generate more income to address the needs that the UPE funds cannot cover," said, Lillian Viko, Amref's education officer in Katine.
'UPE has helped improve the discipline of the children, but we still have problems with numeracy and literacy.
Education: increased enrolment in primary school education due to the universal primary education (UPE) initiative and the government has now introduced free universal secondary education (USE).
Dr Nicholas Itaaga, a UPE expert and a lecturerat Makerere University's School of Education, says poorer parents still struggle to meet requirements for school.
Without community schools the Ugandan government could not boast so proudly of its successful introduction of universal primary education (UPE) in 1997.
