Daily Monitor
Wednesday May 19 2021
Mr Samuel Oburu (left), the Kurobudi Primary School head teacher, shows journalists one of the grass-thatched houses that parents constructed for staff of the school on Monday. PHOTO | JOSEPH OMOLLO
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Residents of Mulanda Sub-county in Tororo District have embarked on constructing grass-thatched houses for teachers’ accommodation at various government-aided primary schools in a bid to limit absenteeism.
The residents say lack of staff accommodation has been one of the factors, alongside shortage of staff, lack of classrooms and low pay, that has for long affected academic performance in most government-aided schools in the district.
Mr Alfred Ofumbi, the chairperson of Parents-Teacher Association (PTA) at Kurobudi Primary School, said on Monday that they came up with the initiative two years ago after realising that most of the teachers travel long distances to the school and as result, they arrive late and leave early.