2023 has been a good year for UHST and for the Humanist Schools in Uganda. Teachers and children have enjoyed being back at school and there are high expectations of good examination results in January. It was an important year for the wider Humanist Schools Movement in Uganda. Bringing the schools together for the 3rd Humanist Schools …

Robert Magara’s 2023 Report as Kanungu Humanist Primary School Director demonstrates the need for each new Humanist school to gain acceptance from its local community. Robert motivation for setting up his school was to help his community overcome the wounds created when a 10 Commandments Evangelical Preacher poisoned 800 Katumba families who had joined his …

Paying teachers’ salaries and other staff costs is the main cost of running the Humanist schools in Uganda. And yet, the fees paid by local parents are generally insufficient to provide decent levels of remuneration for teachers, some of whom, in the more remote primary schools, earn little more than $2 a day. Scholarship payments …