Research has shown that only 2% of Uganda’s children
in urban centers have access to smart phones and 0% in rural areas. Young adults however account for 28% of internet usage in Uganda. In 2019 it was noted that 46% of Uganda’s families had access to smart phones of which 3% were employees who get mobile facilities from their employers in form of allowance and some Ugandans have been asking themselves why it’s rare in Uganda for children to have smart phones.
According to our research we observed that most parents are unable to purchase smart phones for their children since they are expensive and not affordable to everyone. Some have mentality that smart phones have a negative impact to children and a waste of family resources.
We believe that smart phones can have profound benefits towards child development when used properly and with supervision providing children with confidence in learning, digital literacy, adding a dimension to children’s learning since it provides children with ability to get answers quickly and accurately when carrying out research for school assignments.
That’s why it should be noted that God’s village Home of Vangrace Compassion Ministries received a donation of smart phones From Jen Finateri and Yen Hoang for the foster children and Caregivers.
It has been the long time prayer and desire to see that the foster children also get access to such digitalized materials in order for them to be able to compete in the digitalized competitive world we are living in.
And to some of them having got now access to smartphones , we believe this is to help them to carry out online lessons mostly in this pandemic period (COVID 19) where schools are closed and we pray and believe our foster children will all soon get access to them . And today we would love to say special thanks to Jen and Yen for having stepped out and given these awesome tools that are to cause a great impact towards our foster child development as well as to help in updating our friends and sponsors on the wonderful things taking place here in General Ministry Programs and Activities. God bless you More
