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This gift can pay a 'Superteacher’s' salary in Uganda for a month, enabling them to train teaching teams in delivering life-changing education to the youngest refugee children.

Uganda is host to the fastest growing refugee crisis in the world. Over 440,000 of the 2.2 million in the country have fled conflict and human rights abuses in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo.

Thousands of Congolese refugee children living in Kyaka II refugee settlement are unable to access early education at the most crucial time of their development. 

​With buildings unable to accommodate the need, Children on the Edge are training refugee teachers and supporting local parents to provide sustainable early years education through small group lessons, close to children’s homes. 

A Superteacher is a highly experienced teacher, known officially as a 'Trainer of Trainers', within our programme in Uganda's Kyaka II refugee settlement. These individuals are recruited from the local community to act as role models and agents of change. Their main job is to provide continuous support and training to other teachers in their own languages. By passing on skills and getting the community involved in running the small group lessons, Superteachers are essential for ensuring the education provided in the settlement remains high-quality and is sustainable for the future.

Meet John

Despite being violently attacked and seriously injured before fleeing the DRC, John Byamungu Nachale found renewed hope in Uganda's Kyaka II refugee settlement by returning to teaching.

Concerned that young refugees' learning was "blocked," John soon became the director of a learning centre rebuilt by Children on the Edge, offering a bright, safe space for the youngest refugee children to receive high quality early years education and support. When we later launched our cluster learning programme, offering outdoor early years classes for small groups of young children, John mobilised his community and helped them to understand the concept. 

He quickly became a 'Trainer of Teachers' (Superteacher). Using his experience, John trained and mentored other community teachers to lead cluster group lessons, expanding high-quality early years education beyond the centre's capacity. His work and standing in the community are vital, making his village one of the most receptive to the cluster learning programme. John says: "My work brings me hope. I am very, very much enjoying being a ‘Trainer of Teachers’ and feel very proud.”

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Meet Nyota

Nyota's family lives in a very remote area of Kyaka II refugee settlement. For years there was no early years provision and the closest preschools were way too far for a small child to walk to. 

When Nyota was six, a new cluster learning group started in her village. Her parents were thrilled she would finally have the chance to learn and enrolled her straight away. The teachers helped her catch up and, after just three terms Nyota sat and passed her primary school entrance exams. 

Nyota loves school, especially literacy and maths, although she told us she enjoyed her cluster group even more! She is working hard so that she can become a teacher and teach her own cluster group in the future.

These small group lessons are part of our award winning ‘Cluster Learning Approach’, which is a sustainable, cost effective early education model that removes barriers of finance, language, culture, ethnicity, disability and location.

Lessons are arranged in small groups, wherever the children are, in people's homes and compounds, shaded areas around local buildings, and under trees. 

With trained refugee early years teachers, strong parental and community ownership and investment in small business and savings groups, this model is reducing dependency and ensuring early years learning is permanently accessible for all children.

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