About 1000 needy students will benefit from the government bursaries as one of the activities under the Post Primary Education and Expansion and Improvement project.

many disadvantaged Ugandans unable to afford education

This comes after the Ministry of Education and Sports received a loan of about 168 billion shillings for the implementation of the fourth phase of this project from the African Development Fund.

The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Francis Lubanga has told journalists that one of the key aspects that this project will address is the challenge of gender and regional disparities in the access of education in Uganda.

Lubanga says therefore the bursaries under this project will be given out in consideration of this key challenge that the project seeks to address.

He says that is the reason why the ministry has made a memorandum of understanding with the Forum for African Women Educationists and hope that this forum which will do the delegated management of the bursaries will consider those challenges while giving out the bursaries.

The project will take four years.

By Tiberindwa Zacharia, Ultimate Media