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Our Partnership e, the Cotton On Foundation, have partnered with The Ducere Foundation, an organisation who work with local governments and other Foundations with the desire to improve the quality of public education right across Africa.
The collaborative program developed over 12 months together focuses on specifically developing the creative writing skills of teachers from Primary 6-7 and Senior 1-2 and also groups of students from each year level. The initial master class was rolled out across five villages that we partner with in Southern Uganda, including Mannya, Busibo, Namabaale, Kyalulangira and Nabbunga. Students were inspired from hearing stories from Ducere’s other Ugandan collections from children their own age. The group then created impromptu stories together, with each participant having an opportunity to add their own section to the story. The sessions encourage students to pull inspiration from their own imagination, stories from real life and to listen and document stories from their elders. Skills such as story structure, story creation framework, descriptive skills, creating characters and scene setting were also taught. After only a short few weeks of developing their skills, over 1000 personally written stories were collected. From there, the best stories were selected for publication in this very collection, filling four books! We couldn’t be more proud of the incredible standard and effort put into each and every story making up this collection, and we thank Ducere for partnering with us on this incredible initiative!