Goodbye Rjukan

Mengo Senior School on Facebook: Goodbye Rjukan! The Mengo team today left Rjukan for Norway from where they will fly out back to Uganda. This concludes their visit but begins a new chapter of collaboration, sharing and mutal understanding. Mr. Komeja challenged them to share with peers and collegues in Uganda their experiences and perspectives from the visit as a means of cascading the impact of the program.

Leaving Rjukan and our host class 1ST (S4) tomorrow...

Students working together

Farewell to Rjukan! Let's meet in uganda

ELIMU friendship North - South: Mengo-students and teachers in Rjukan, Norway

A visit to the Gausta-area

Making pizza for lunch with Norwegian host students

Mengo-teacher Glorious Bua and the Norwegian Minister of the Environment and International Development Erik Solheim

fk-participants 2010-2011

Norwegian and Ugandan participants in a three weeks Preparatory Course FK-north-south, Hadeland Norway: Trond, Randi, Edward and Bernard

New Vision: Norway rewards Ugandan teachers

Ingrid Kjelsnes hands over the laptops to Bakka Male at King’s College, Budo

Norway rewards Ugandan teachers
New Vision skriver i sin tirsdagsutgave om samarbeidet mellom Telemark og Uganda:
Ugandan teachers are to benefit from Norway’s extension of the teacher’s exchange programme with Uganda to 2013. The programme that initially ran from 2002-2007 was reviewed by the Norway in partnership with Fredskorpset due to the good implementation in Uganda.

The programme has one teacher from Kings College Budo, Mengo S.S and St. Joseph technical Institute, each selected to teach in the Norwegian schools.
According to the arrangement, teachers from Uganda teach practical and science subjects in Norway while Norwegian teachers handle information technology, physical education and wood and metal work in Uganda.
One of the beneficiaries of the programme, Peter Ssenyimba of Kings College Budo, said Ugandan teachers will be exposed to the Norwegian system of conducting lessons in groups to facilitate close teacher-child interaction in class.
“I implemented it in Budo and now I can easily relate with my students, which was not the case before. I can quickly establish any problem if there is any,” says Senyimba Ugandan teachers will also learn to use teaching aids to enrich their lessons.
Meanwhile, Kings College Budo has received a donation of eight laptops worth sh16m. Handing over the donation to Patrick Bakka Male, the school head teacher, Fredskorpset project coordinator, Ingrid Kjelsnes, said the donation was an extension of the warm relationship between Norway and Uganda. (Mubiru Kakebe, New Vision)

going home to Uganda

Mark and Daniel attending Fk Homecoming Seminar for debreafing after 10 months in Norway 

Fk Certificate ceremony

How can we contribute in developing vocational education?

Today we had a meeting with the Norwegian Ambassador, Bjørg S. Leite, to talk about projects on vocational education in Uganda