Night Theopista’s Community-Based Participatory Action Research (CBPAR) Brings Over 30 Children Back to School in 7 months
In March 2023, ARU Student Night Theopista embarked on a transformative journey of her internship as part of community engagement community aimed at keeping children at school in Nyakabira Village, Isunga Subcounty, Kagadi District.
Through her Community-Based Participatory Action Research (CBPAR) project, she worked closely with community members to set up visions, assessed their current reality driving students out of school and took action through visionary approach to enable them return to school with due dates.
As a result of her efforts, over 30 students have successfully returned to school within just seven months and a mechanism has been put in place bearing socio-economic factors to keep them in school . For the start, the Primary requested well wishers to support students with Uniform, Shoes,Pens,books and functional fee all totaling to 500,000 Uganda Shillings.
The research revealed several key factors contributing to the dropout crisis, including financial challenges, early marriages, gender roles, domestic violence, and lack of support for slow learners. Night will be graduating with a Bachelor’s Degree in Rural Development in November this year to continue with her journey of rural transformation as an Epicentre Manager.