A newspapers-in-education (NiE) programme is credited with helping to improve literacy rates in northern Uganda.
For the last three years, schools in towns such as Gulu, Pader and Kitgum have embraced the use of newspapers in the classroom to remarkable effect.
Dr Gitahi Githinji, managing director of the company that publishes Uganda's leading independent title, Daily Monitor, says children who receive their own paper every Monday of school term generally take them home, so "their parents, and eventually the whole community, benefits."
Source: Daily Monitor
