(11 Dec 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kampala, Uganda – 11 November 2024
1. Wide of Justine Nangero standing outside her house as her daughter and neighbors are seen in the background
VOICEOVER: Justine Nangero is in a constant battle to raise funds to educate her four children. When her eldest was recently sent home for having fee arrears, her father was on his death bed. All this, too heavy for Nangero, who is a shoe vendor, to bear.
2. Various of Nangero using her phone as her daughter looks on
3. Wide of Nangero’s homestead
4. Various of Nangero seated on a mat during TV interview
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Justine Nangero, widow:
"There is a time when I reached a moment when I went to the hospital thinking it is malaria. When they tried checking my blood pressure, they told me my blood pressure is going high. But I had so much worries because some of the children were still home."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kampala, Uganda – 4 November 2024
7. Various drone shots of Wampeewo Ntake Secondary School
8. Various of Joanita Seguya, Deputy Headteacher Wampeewo Ntake Secondary School, interacting with students
VOICEOVER: The daily struggle to pay often unpredictable and unregulated school fees is a crushing issue for many across sub-Saharan Africa. Lacking a few hundred dollars can determine a child’s future. In some instances, not having 40 U.S. dollars is all it takes for a child to be denied access to school, as Joanita Seguya who is a teacher, explains.
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Joanita Seguya, Deputy Headteacher Wampeewo Ntake Secondary School: ++PART OVERLAID BY SHOT 10++
"Millions are being kept away because when you learn that there are schools where they pay school fees of 150,000 (Ugandan Shillings) ($40.76) for a whole term – that is about two and half months – and then they tell you these kids have studied, the kids studied for the first 3 weeks, was sent away for school fees and never returned. Now imagine if they are struggling at 150 (thousand) what about above that?”
10. Various of students leaving the school compound
VOICEOVER: The region has long had the world’s highest dropout rates and despite varying reasons, financial pain is the biggest. According to the World Bank, parents across the region rank school fees more of a challenge than medical bills and other expenses. In Uganda, parents describe constant phone calls from schools demanding money and making threats.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kampala, Uganda – 4 November 2024
11. Wide of teacher in a classroom
12. Students during a lesson in a classroom
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kampala, Uganda – 12 November 2024
13. Wide of Moses Serikomawa and his family at his homestead
14. Serikomawa reading the Bible
15. SOUNDBITE (Luganda) Moses Serikomawa, parent: ++PART OVERLAID BY SHOT 16++
"We are really suffering. The schools are never patient with us. Even if you have arrears of only 1,000 shillings out of 10,000 shillings, they will send your child back home. They don’t care, until you clear their 1,000 shillings. All they care about is just their business, there is no help at all."
16. Various of students tapping out with ID cards as they leave school compound
STORYLINE:
The day Shalom Mirembe was sent home from school last month over unpaid tuition, her father lay dying in a hospital.
Even as her mother sat by his bedside, school officials were calling and demanding payment.
For Mirembe’s mother, a shoe vendor who looks after four children, it was a heartbreaking moment in the daily struggle to pay often unpredictable and unregulated school fees.
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