Uganda Humanist Schools Trust – Inclusive education based on reason, compassion, tolerance

When projects don’t quite go to plan

October 23, 2021

During our first visited Katumba Parents Humanist Primary School in July 2018 we were moved by what we found there. Katumba is a remote and neglected community eking out a living growing cocoa and food crops on steep slopes which rise to the 15,000 feet high snow-capped Ruwenzori mountains. Parents from this poor community came …

Humanist School from Space

October 20, 2021

By Steve Hurd

Here is the latest Google Earth shot of Isaac Newton High School. To our knowledge, Isaac Newton High School, founded in 2005, is the first Humanist High School in the World. The school was built on a green field site and the picture shows the results of 16 years of development. The school has sufficient …

How teachers cope when schools close due to Covid

October 19, 2021

By Steve Hurd

In Uganda, teachers’ pay is low and varies greatly among schools. In rural high schools, they earn little more than £75 a month. This covers the essentials for a family but is not enough to pay school fees for the teacher’s own children. So, most are forced to find additional sources of income. Covid has …

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How teachers cope when schools close due to Covid