Our Chairman's update on Covid-19
October 2020
Ted Fawcett, EVC Uganda's Chairman provides an update on how our schools and volunteers have been impacted and adapting to the covid-19 restrictions.
From 18 March, due to the virus, all schools in Uganda have been closed and our people have worked tirelessly to take
school learning materials / aids to learning to individual
children at home so they have work to do and collect and
mark this. Our outreach education programme has been very active during this period. The usual childrens` letters and school reports to child sponsors have not been sent due to these exceptional circumstances. These very important
items will be sent again to child sponsors as soon as possible.
Candidate classes for those children due to sit Primary
Leaving Examinations ( PLE ) will return to school on
15 October and the latest news we have is that the rest of
the children will be returning to school in the new year.
In order to re open the schools the Ugandan Government has set Standard Operating Procedures which must be
followed and EVC will assist where possible with the
implementation. Facilities being provided include a totally
enclosed site, temperature guns, masks, disposable gloves,
handwashing stations, disinfectant and an isolation area with beds and desks.
We will continue to update you on developments as they
unfold on the EVC website
Ted Fawcett
Chairman
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