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[QUOTE="Nehanda, post: 26227, member: 2262"]
President Museveni feels sad because many government-run schools still ask parents to pay money. He talked about this yesterday when he opened a new training center in Mbarara District.

"Every area should have a primary school. Children can sleep at home. The government will give food and school things," President Museveni said.

He asked schools to stop charging poor people fees. "We created these government schools to help people without much money. Their children should learn for free," he added.

The training centers already let students learn without paying anything. These students eat free food and sleep at the centers without paying money.

"I don't like to jump around on many things, but at our centers, nobody pays to learn. We feed them and give them places to sleep. All government schools should work the same way," President Museveni said.

He promised to expand the training centers. They will take in more students and build more classrooms and sleeping places. They will teach new skills like fixing pipes, working with electricity, and fixing cars.

"We will let more students come and learn. We will build more places for them," he said.

President Museveni also promised to give each training center a bus to help students move around.

"We want each area to have a center. Each center will get a bus to help things work better," he said.

The new center in Mbarara currently has 998 students. Of these, 537 are girls, and 461 are boys. Leaders asked if more students could join the program.
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