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Daily Monitor, JRS launch education partnership
Launched. Staff of Jesuit Refugee Service and Daily Monitor with teachers and pupils of St Peter’s Primary School, Nsambya, after signing the partnership in Kampala yesterday . PHOTO BY KELVIN ATUHAIRE
Daily Monitor, a product of the Nation Media Group, in partnership with Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS), yesterday launched a partnership to supply copies of the Newspapers in Education (NIE) pullout to selected schools.
NIE comes out every Monday and is aimed at encouraging use of newspapers as a tool of learning and understanding current affairs mainly among pupils from less privileged schools.
Speaking during the launch at St Peter’s Primary School, Nsambya, in Kampala yesterday, Ms Christina Zetlmeisl, the JRS deputy country director, explained that they embraced the NIE initiative because they support education.
“We felt that this was some additional support we could give to schools. We decided to select four schools in Kampala and five in Adjumani,” she said.
Partnership
The selected schools will receive copies of Daily Monitor every Monday for a year and eight weeks. The teachers will also be trained on how to incorporate NIE in the teaching and learning process as well as involving pupils in contributing to the content in the product.
“We have been running NIE for almost 20 years now and research indicates it has created impact. More than three million children all over the country have so far benefitted. A newspaper is a tool that can give you more than 10,000 words a day, thus helping students learn new words and improve their vocabulary,” Ms Elizabeth Namaganda, the NMG head of marketing, said.
She added that unlike textbooks, a newspaper is updated on a daily basis and thus keeps the student updated on current knowledge.
Ms Mary Margaret Olowo, the senior woman teacher at St Peter’s Primary School, Nsambya, said NIE gives pupils opportunity to interact with others in the education world.
