- In order to achieve Universal Primary Education, Uganda needs to build 4,988 classrooms annually between now and 2015. Currently, about 2,786 get built each year. (4)
- Learning inside a well-built school raises the standard deviation of student achievement by 10 percentage points in sub-Saharan Africa. (4)
- The US government spends 50 times what the Ugandan government spends per student on public education. (1)
- Every morning, 38 million children in sub-Saharan Africa wake up with no school to attend. (2)
- In the Wakiso District of Uganda, one of the areas where BT currently works, the local government estimates a first grade drop-out rate of 80%. (3)
- Over half of Uganda’s population is under the age of 15. (4)
- Only 54% of children in Uganda will complete primary school and, of those, only 20% will move on to secondary school. (4)
- 35% of all Ugandans are illiterate. (4)
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