Welcome to Literacy Aid Uganda

Students
Our old students have something to say Hear their views:

"I didn't know how to read and writebut now I doand my spelling skills areimproving on a daily basis. I missedschool because my dad passed away and my mother did not have any income to keep me in school."

"Can you imagine that now I can read and write most anything! "I am more than happy with this organization.I pray that whoever started it lives longer.I came here when I could not even write my name. I did not go to school while young because of my stepmother who convinced my father that sending me to school was a waste of money."

"I came here when I was a proper illiterate woman, but now I am so advanced in reading and writing that now I correspond with my parents, children and friends through letter-writing – something I could not dare do then. I pray that this kind of teaching be availed to all people who would otherwise end up illiterate like I was."

"Can you imagine that now I can read and write most anything! Before LAU came, I had never stepped inside a classroom as a student. By the time I turned 2 years old, I had lost both my parents. The caretaker relative did not send me to school.I was employed as a nanny when I was just six years old.I have experienced all sorts of misery known to man - including sexual abuse. I am so glad to realize that I can now be counted among the literate."

I have always been considered the unlucky child. My father died during the war. My mother died while delivering the sister who follows me. I have always known the alphabets but have never been able to freely construct sentences on my own. Today, I am the Secretary of the school newsletter started for purposes of encouraging us to write and read.'

"I missed formal education because of wars, but fortunately, through LAU now I have had that which I had missed. I have discovered that when you are literate you belong to a wider community."

"I am very happy for this organisation. I did not get to polish my reading skills. I dropped out of school when I got.pregnant. My father refused to take me back to school. I never believed I could ever be able to sit in a classroom again. LAU classes have greatly unlocked the potentials in me and have unveiled my long hidden talents."

"I was dubbed a mentally retarded child and very unteachable. I was penalised for my handcap and eventually advised to leave school when, after three yearsof trying, I could not qualify to move from the third to the fourth grade. I have lived this life as a semi-illiterate child, until recently when I joined LAU classes. My teachers say that I would have made it if the former teachers had had the patience for my slow learning style."

"I find it hard to forgive my stepmom who denied me the opportunity of going to school although all my step brothers and sisters did go. There is no major reason why I could not go except that I was not her daughter. My first classroom experience was through LAU and I am so proud I never shyied away."

"I am so grateful with LAU's work among us. I have greatly improved my reading, writing and speaking skills, sure now nobody can even backbite me during an English language conversation."

Literacy Aid Uganda is a non-governmental, not-for profit organization licenced by the government of the Republic of Uganda, to spearhead adult literacy education amongst the less fortunate Ugandans.

Hundreds of women and children have been equipped with skills in cookery, pottery, ceramics, tailoring, knitting, painting, basic carpentry, etc.