{"id":6830,"date":"2022-10-06T08:01:22","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T08:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugandaupdatenews.com\/?p=6830"},"modified":"2022-10-06T08:35:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T08:35:04","slug":"vice-president-alupo-rallies-teachers-for-national-development-warns-against-abstenteeism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/vice-president-alupo-rallies-teachers-for-national-development-warns-against-abstenteeism\/","title":{"rendered":"VICE PRESIDENT ALUPO RALLIES TEACHERS FOR NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ,WARNS AGAINST ABSTENTEEISM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Government has underscored the importance of teachers for national economic growth and development .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs government we consider all your contributions to be valuable and useful. The current efforts to improve on the welfare of all teachers are well reflected in government\u2019s systematic plan in Education, \u201c the Vice President HE Jessica Alupo told hundreds of teachers who turned up to celebrate Katakwi World Teachers day yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In speech read for her&nbsp; by the Minister of Lands Housing and Urban Development , Hon. Judith Nabakooba , Alupo said that all teachers are &nbsp;valued without any form of discrimination. The celebrations were held under the theme of \u201cTransformation of Education &nbsp;begins with teachers .\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI want to encourage you together with your leaders to seriously take up your role in transforming our country from a peasant to a modern industrial state. Government recently launched the Parish Development Model as an engine to scale up growth at the community level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As teachers of this nation, I urge you to come out strongly and do your part in the implementation of the Parish Development Model. I encourage every teacher to get a copy of the Parish Development Model booklet and study the guidelines properly,\u201d VP Alupo stated .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"461\" data-attachment-id=\"6832\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/vice-president-alupo-rallies-teachers-for-national-development-warns-against-abstenteeism\/na2-10\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/na2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1080,486\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"na2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/na2.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/na2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/na2-1024x461.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6832\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/na2.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/na2.jpg 300w, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/na2.jpg 768w, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/na2.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>She urged the teachers to utilise &nbsp;their &nbsp;saving groups to access affordable loans that they can invest to increase household incomes . \u201cI want to give you government\u2019s assurance that we shall continue to support you at all levels as you aspire to improve your livelihoods.Given the Uganda we want today and tomorrow, teachers can no longer afford to limit themselves to the comfort of teaching alone,\u201d she advised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Keeping our children in school, fighting absenteeism:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Vice President warned teachers about absenteeism and emphasized government\u2019s important obligation of keeping &nbsp;children in school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cKeeping our girls in school is very effective in the fight against teenage pregnancies and other challenges such as HIV. Research has shown that when a girl remains in school up to the higher levels, chances of getting HIV significantly reduce by more than 50%.I therefore call upon you our teachers, to do your part in encouraging our parents to return our children to school by following up on them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government has underscored the importance of teachers for national economic growth and development . \u201cAs government we consider all your<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[64,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-national-development"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/na3.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15190,"url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/minister-nabakooba-at-st-kizito-ss-band-mityana-promises-to-follow-up-on-president-museveni-promises\/","url_meta":{"origin":6830,"position":0},"title":"Minister Nabakooba At St Kizito SS  Band Mityana, Promises To Follow-up On President Museveni Promises","author":"UgandaUpdate","date":"August 20, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"By Our Reporters The Minister of Lands , Housing and Urban Development ,Ms. Judith \u00a0Nabakooba has promised to follow-up on a promise that was made by\u00a0 President Yoweri \u00a0Museveni to \u00a0built a laboratory with \u00a0equipment at St Kizito Secondary School, Banda in Mityana District. 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