PRIME TOURS AND ADVENTURE UGANDA-CHARITY 

 About us;

Prime tours and adventures is a tour and travel agency dedicated to providing excellent and memorable experience to our clients nationwide while also developing the business and managerial skills of the future leaders of our community. It has a trained team of our operators, tour guides and has an on ground team that helps in the field. Our focus is about exposing persons to the love and knowledge in adventure and seeks to enhance their ability to effect positive change through training, conferences with other members within the region and the world.

Goals;                                                 

• Ensuring our clients and agent’s retention and satisfaction by meeting all client’s expectations and create value for their time and money.     
• Productivity of people and resources
• Excellent customer services
• Employee retention and attraction

Objectives;

• Provide opportunities for teams to improve leadership skills
• Increase our service’s market share
• Reach out to more communities and countries at large
• Strengthen customer service
• Enhance tourism growth and development of the country.

Mission

• Build the best product through excellent services, cause no unnecessary harm to the environment and its ecosystems while using business to inspire and implement solutions to the environmental crisis.

Vision

• Accelerate the world’s transition to climate and ecosystem conservation and rehabilitation

ORGANISATION FLOW CHART

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

EDUCATION FUNDING SUPPORT

Education is a critical component of providing students with the resources and opportunities they need to succeed academically and beyond. Unfortunately, many schools and educational programs face significant challenges in securing adequate funding, which can lead to a variety of negative outcomes for students. One of the most significant challenges facing education is the current economic climate. In many areas, school budgets reduced due to economic downturns, leaving students without access to necessary resources, such as textbooks, classroom supplies, and technology.

To address these challenges therefore, it is paramount therefore for PRIME TOURS AND ADVENTURES to support education through its variety of channels. One effective way that will enable Prime tours and Adventures support education is to sponsor school tuition for school going children in especially rural setting from their primary level to University level of education. We will also be able to advocate for it with elected officials. This can include attending local school board meetings, writing letters to elected officials, or participating in grassroots advocacy efforts to raise awareness of the need for increased education in especially the rural settings. By donating to these programs, we can help ensure that students have access to school tuition they need to succeed academically and beyond.

We will also volunteer our time and skills to local schools or educational programs, offering tutoring, mentoring, or assistance to teachers with classroom activities. These efforts can help supplement the work of schools and educators, providing students with additional support and resources.

OVERVIEW

As Prime Tours and Adventures, are acutely aware how complex the task is to deliver good quality education in 1 district, let alone all 135 districts across Uganda.

In 1997, Uganda introduced universal primary education, and in the years since, the number of children, attending primary school has tripled. However, attendance alone is not enough. While more children start at primary school today, the proportion who complete their education has decreased. Similarly, 8 out of 10 children aged six to 12 years attend primary school and more than 1 in 4 attend secondary school. However, access remains inequitable: the secondary level enrolment of the richest 20 per cent of the population (43.1 per cent) is five times that of the poorest 20 per cent (8.2 per cent). In addition, there is a need to improve learning. The country’s National Assessment of Progress in Education (NAPE) records a 14-percentage decrease in literacy between 2014 and 2018. For the MoES, ensuring that the large inflow of students completes quality education is a priority. It is especially critical to recover any COVID-19-related learning losses as children return to classrooms.

To re-capture gains of expanded access, we have begun to make important investments in existing primary and new secondary schools.  This will be accompanied by an ambitious reform agenda, aiming to improve education quality and the impact of the additional investments. For instance, district financing to cover school tuition costs will increase by 80 % in 2023/24 compared to the previous year. This will translate in increase in per pupil funding across primary schools in Uganda.

To address equity issues, we will ensure that underserved districts have the necessary financing to improve their performance, and that this financing is more equitably distributed. To supplement funding provided on a per-pupil basis, a targeted set of factors determines a district's access to additional financing.  This includes historically poor performance in learning outcomes. Geographical factors matter too, because they increase the costs of delivering services to students. Thus, remote regions, such as islands or mountainous districts, receive extra help.

Rewarding the best and supporting the rest: Financing education in Uganda's 135 districts

The expectation is that such support will lead to equity gains and translate to better learning outcomes of students. It will also empower districts in Uganda so that in the future the entire education system, from the central to the school level will be fully performance based, where strong performers rewarded but without leaving the weaker ones behind.

PROBLEM

Poverty is the very first problem that affects education for children in rural areas of Uganda. The rates of unemployment, malnutrition, and poverty in villages are higher than in towns. This is because of population density that makes it more visible. Poverty, in turn, affects educational outcomes and frequently leads to early dropouts. In this case, most children do not even think of joining secondary education but rather drop out in a primary.

SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM: Education makes a huge difference in human lives. The economic or political challenges are easy to overcome if everyone has access to high-quality education. For this reason, we will fund education programs in vulnerable communities. Below is an in-depth extract discussing how we intend to support the vulnerable community. Enrollment will start with the most vulnerable districts in Uganda

MULTIDIMENSIONAL POVERTY: KEY FINDINGS

NEARLY HALF

of Ugandan households experience multidimensional poverty, more than double the percentage living in monetary poverty

Multidimensional poverty is highest among households where the household head has no formal education

No formal education

56%

Children below 18

years of age experience

Households with 4+ children per adult

70% IN MULTIDIMENSIONAL POVERTY

the highest rates of multidimensional poverty

Rural households experience higher rates of multidimensional poverty

Households with fewer than 4 children per adult

47% IN MULTIDIMENSIONAL POVERTY

50% of households headed by women experience multidimensional poverty compared with 46% of male-headed households

Rural 55%                           Urban 23%

In Kampala, around 5 x more children

are living in multidimensional poverty (15%)

than monetary poverty (3%)

 MULTIDIMENSIONAL POVERTY BY GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION

Source: UNICEF-Uganda-Multi-dimensional-Child-Poverty-2020

The highest rates of multidimensional child poverty are found in rural areas: Karamoja (84%), Bukedi (83%), West Nile (81%), Bugishu (80%), Acholi (76%) and Busoga (75%). Busoga, Bukedi and Bugishu

– Which along with Karamoja, Acholi and West Nile are among the poorest sub-regions in the country – are very densely populated and together account for one-third of Uganda’s child population.

The disparity between rates of monetary and multidimensional child poverty varies across sub-regions. In Kampala, around five times more children are identified as living in multidimensional poverty (15%) than monetary poverty (3%), while the variation in Karamoja is less than 2% and in Kigezi around 5%.

BUDGET

Our budget will consider the most impoverished districts of Uganda. We shall be considering mostly government-aided schools. In addition, we shall be paying Ugshs. 150,000 (USD 41), whereby (USD=UGshs.3, 744.44) per pupil per school. The following table reflects the total estimates of the initial budget spread.

CONCLUSION

In conclusion, for PRIME TOURS AND ADVENTURES, Charity is meant for the general betterment of our society. The allocation of donations must be strictly monitored to ensure that it does not end up in the wrong hands. There is much hardship in the world, and it is the fortunate man’s inherent duty to help better those who are less fortunate. Those who are worthy of charity are also those who possess a strong sense of motivation to lift themselves out of their unfortunate situations. Through helping another in need, one is able to dignify his or her own life with the pride of helping someone else.