Uganda: Nursery Teachers Devise New Means of Meeting Learners

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Uganda: Nursery Teachers Devise New Means of Meeting Learners

[Monitor] Teachers and proprietors of nursery schools in Soroti City have opened up centres where they interact with learners as uncertainty over the reopening of the pre-primary section continues across the country.

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