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Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>Sporting a dress that covers her entire body and a veil that\u2019s mandatory for every student at Islamic University in Uganda (IUIU)\u2019s all-female campus, Ms Shonah Kisakye is frank about her travails.<\/p>\n

Ms Kisakye, 19, stopped pursuing a certificate in nursing and midwifery after being hamstrung by lack of tuition. Her father\u2014whom she tells Monitor is the family\u2019s sole breadwinner\u2014has unsuccessfully tried to keep his six children in school.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have tried to do odd jobs even here at the university such that I can top up on what my father has, but still we come short of what\u2019s needed,\u201d Ms Kisakye, the eldest child in the family, reveals.<\/p>\n

Seated next to Ms Kisakye is Ms Sophia Nasser. With the 24-year-old student\u2019s father in and out of hospital, pursuing a Bachelor\u2019s degree in Information Technology has proved to be a Herculean task.<\/p>\n

\u201cI came and told the director about my struggles,\u201d Ms Nasser discloses, adding, \u201cFrom the time of Covid-19, my father wasn\u2019t earning as much as he was earning before and when he was sick, I had to forget school to take care of him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, Ms Esther Kainembabazi\u2014a sophomore Mass Communication and Journalism student\u2014has also been buffeted by problems occasioned by the pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe salary he is earning was slashed yet besides tuition, we have other needs like eating and putting on clothes,\u201d she tells Saturday Monitor about her father\u2019s predicament, adding, \u201cSo I had to come to the director to get help.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr Madina Nabukeera, the director whom Ms Kainembabazi refers to, says these stories of lack have become commonplace at the campus she superintends over. She further reveals that a peculiar solution has in recent times presented itself.<\/p>\n

\u201cMen always come here looking for girls to marry, and if the girl accepts, we marry them off,\u201d she said, adding of the marriages, \u201cI know this is not out of love; it\u2019s about the need to get tuition.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr Nabukeera proceeds to describe such marriage arrangements as \u201cpainful.\u201d She also questions their sustainability.<\/p>\n

An outlier <\/b><\/p>\n

Constituting just 14 percent of the country\u2019s population, Muslims in Uganda have always been something of an outlier. Their golden age\u2014at least in Buganda\u2014was between 1862 and 1875, during Kabaka Mutesa I\u2019s reign, following Islam\u2019s introduction from the East African coast in 1844.<\/p>\n

Since the roots of formal education in Uganda can be traced back to Christian missionaries, there was always a feeling among Muslims that Islamic virtues they wanted passed on to their children would be undercut.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany of the schools shared the same grounds, if not buildings, with churches. Muslim parents were afraid of this kind of education because it exposed their children to Christian ideas and values and had the potential to lead to Christian conversion,\u201d Omar Dawood writes in his paper titled Marginalisation of Muslims and Measures to promote minority rights in Access to Justice in Uganda.<\/p>\n

Dr Muhammad Kiggundu, who heads the Department of Humanities and Language Education at Makerere University, says Muslim families in Uganda relied on Madarasa or Koran schools.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese were schools mainly established in homes of a few prominent Muslim scholars (Mu\u2019alim), where lessons were usually taught on verandas or any available space,\u201d Dr Kiggundu says.<\/p>\n

It, therefore, came as no surprise that in the aftermath of colonialism, Muslims had only two university graduates.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the 1960s, we had only two Muslim graduates. That\u2019s Ali Kirunda Kivejinja and Abubaker Mayanja. Because education was in the hands of the Church, Muslims had to convert like Yusuf Lule,\u201d Dr Nabukeera says, referring to Uganda\u2019s fourth president who converted from Islam to Anglicanism while at Kings College Budo, an Anglican-founded school.<\/p>\n

It was against this historical marginalisation of Muslims in the education sector that in 1988, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)\u2014 the Jeddah-based organisation whose objective is to protect and safeguard the vital interests of Muslims\u2014teamed up with the current regime in Kampala to form IUIU. The main campus of the university is in the eastern city of Mbale. Campuses in Kampala (2001), Arua (2004), and another exclusive to females in Kabojja (2008) have since been stablished.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe objective of this female campus was to create a suitable environment for the girl-child to complete higher education with affordable tuition charges,\u201d Dr Nabukeera says.<\/p>\n

Empirical evidence has, however, showed that the girl-child was still running into a brick wall, thanks to financial bottlenecks. Dr Nabukeera, who has been the director of the female campus since its inception, says a \u201czero balance policy\u201d that bars one from writing \u201cexams unless you have completed your tuition\u201d has been a stumbling block for many.<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t help matters that you can count off the fingers of one hand the scholarships offered by Islamic organisations such as International Islamic Charity Organisation (IICO) and the African Muslim Agency (AMA).<\/p>\n

\u201cWe could send them any scholarship applications, but they could only give two [students],\u201d Dr Nabukeera discloses.<\/p>\n

Zero balance policy<\/b><\/p>\n

With nearly 300 students not being able to write their exams because of tuition, Dr Nabukeera says she had to be creative. She wrote a concept paper to IUIU leadership, imploring them to change the policy of \u201czero balance\u201d to \u201cpay you sit.\u201d<\/p>\n

She says of the latter: \u201cIt would tell students to pay some amount to sit a paper. You pay another amount, I give you another paper. That way, we would avoid having many students on halted progress.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite the IUIU top brass not buying into her proposal, Dr Nabukeera rebelled and went ahead to implement it.<\/p>\n

She found comfort in the fact that her proposal was in the Sustainable Development Goal No.16. The goal stipulates thus: \u201cPromote peaceful and inclusive societies.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThese girls come here crying for me. They want to sit exams. What should I do? Because if they don\u2019t sit exams, it means another year here and an additional burden,\u201d Dr Nabukeera says.<\/p>\n

IUIU\u2019s top brass favour the zero balance policy because the university is mainly run on tuition that students pay. To make ends meet, a number of students from IUIU\u2019s female campus have gone to the Middle East to do odd jobs.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have transcripts here which have not been claimed because girls have gone to Saudi Arabia to work such that they pay money,\u201d Dr Nabukeera reveals.<\/p>\n

With money not coming from either donors or the government, Dr Nabukeera last year came up with another idea of getting money. Dubbed Run for a Girl Child Education, the cause promotion only managed to rake in Shs5 million.<\/p>\n

Shs4m of it came from Speaker Anita Among. This has not deterred Dr Nabukeera from knocking on more doors and running various publicity campaigns.<\/p>\n

With Shs17 million in the kitty now, students such as Ms Kainembabazi have had their deficits cleared. Entirely.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope people continue to participate in this run because I would be struggling with fees,\u201d she says of the cause promotion.<\/p>\n

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