LABE Uganda

LABE Uganda Innovating to empower communities through literacy since 1989. Early Childhood Development | Inclusive Home & Play-Based Learning | Family Basic Education

Literacy and Adult Basic Education (LABE), founded in 1989, is an indigenous NGO in Uganda with registration number S.5914/1192. LABE is governed by a BOD of Directors that represent government, higher institutions of learning, international and district-level partner organizations. Those who engage with LABE subscribe to the beliefs and basic principles that: Literacy, as a continuously evolving

concept, is a basic human right – the foundation to learning and a more just society; Lack of reading and writing, particularly among women and girls, is unacceptable in the 21st century; Families, communities and local organizations have capacities, assets and resources which can be used to radically improve their education for wider development.

Mothers are a child's first safe space, first teacher, and first home. Today, we celebrate every mother who pours love, ...
10/05/2026

Mothers are a child's first safe space, first teacher, and first home. Today, we celebrate every mother who pours love, patience, and strength into raising the next generation.

Happy Mother's Day! 💛

Our Executive Director, Stellah Tumwebaze, is in Kigali, Rwanda this week, joining leaders from across the globe at the ...
07/05/2026

Our Executive Director, Stellah Tumwebaze, is in Kigali, Rwanda this week, joining leaders from across the globe at the Global Technical Financing Forum, Investing in the Early Years.

The forum, hosted by Early Childhood Development Action Network - ECDAN alongside the Government of Rwanda, UNICEF, UNESCO, The African Early Childhood Network, and the World Health Organization (WHO), is bringing together governments, investors, and civil society organisations to address a critical gap: most countries still allocate less than 2% of education budgets to pre-primary education, even as evidence continues to show that the early years deliver the highest returns of any investment in human development.

LABE has spent over three decades working with families in some of Uganda's most underserved communities. We know what adequate, sustained investment in young children can achieve.

To every hand that does the work, Happy Labour Day!LABE celebrates our staff, volunteers, communities, and partners who ...
01/05/2026

To every hand that does the work, Happy Labour Day!

LABE celebrates our staff, volunteers, communities, and partners who show up every day for children and families across Uganda.

Uganda's National ECCE Policy has arrived. 🎉Yesterday marked a historic moment, the official launch of the policy that p...
01/05/2026

Uganda's National ECCE Policy has arrived. 🎉

Yesterday marked a historic moment, the official launch of the policy that puts our youngest children at the centre of Uganda's development agenda.

This milestone is the result of years of advocacy, consultation, and the voices of communities across the country being heard. LABE is proud to be part of a movement that believes every child deserves a strong beginning.

We congratulate the Ministry of Education and Sports and all partners who made this possible. Now comes the most important part, putting the policy into action for children and families everywhere.

The work continues.



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Uganda is gearing up for a landmark moment for the early years, the National Launch of the Early Childhood Care and Educ...
24/04/2026

Uganda is gearing up for a landmark moment for the early years, the National Launch of the Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) Policy on 30 April 2026. This launch marks an important national step in strengthening the foundation for children's learning, care, development, and well-being. As an organisation working with families and young children across Northern Uganda, LABE Uganda stands fully behind this moment.

Preceding the launch is the ECCE Walk on 29 April 2026, a public show of solidarity for Uganda's youngest children. Participants will walk from Embassy House at the Ministry of Education and Sports to Nakivubo Blue Primary School, led by Hon. Dr. Joyce Kaducu, Minister of State for Primary Education, starting at 7:00 AM.

We invite our networks, partners, and fellow advocates to join us as we rally behind stronger early childhood systems for every child under the theme "Strong Beginnings, Bright Futures".

We were delighted to host The AfriChild Centre team at LABE yesterday, as we kick off preparations for Kulea Watoto 2. T...
22/04/2026

We were delighted to host The AfriChild Centre team at LABE yesterday, as we kick off preparations for Kulea Watoto 2. This partnership initiation meeting marks an important step toward continuing our shared mission of nurturing children and transforming livelihoods in refugee and host communities across Uganda.

💡 Did you know? The most powerful learning tool in a community might just be an older child.At LABE, our Child-to-Child ...
20/04/2026

💡 Did you know?

The most powerful learning tool in a community might just be an older child.
At LABE, our Child-to-Child strand, part of our 3-Stranded Home-Based ECD model, is anchored in a family intergenerational learning approach called Family Basic Education (FABE).

Through songs, games, and picture stories, older children guide 5–6 year olds in their final year of pre-school, building school readiness right within their homes and communities.

No classroom needed. Just a child, a song, and the will to learn.

Investing in youth = multiplying impact.

Learn more about our work 👉🏽 www.labeuganda.org

This week, our Executive Director, Stellah Tumwebaze, is in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, representing LABE at the 2026 World ...
15/04/2026

This week, our Executive Director, Stellah Tumwebaze, is in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, representing LABE at the 2026 World Forum on Early Care and Education, one of the biggest global gatherings of early childhood professionals, drawing participants from over 40 countries.

She presented LABE's Home-Based ECD model in the breakout session "Where Learning Lives: Homes, Hearts, and Generations Building Early Childhood Together", alongside voices from Uganda, Zimbabwe, Nepal, Indonesia, and Canada.

At the centre of it all: the family is a child's first school. It is where values are shaped, and where kindness, respect, and compassion are first learned. That is what LABE has championed across West Nile and Northern Uganda, and what we were proud to bring to the global stage this week.

10,618 people. That is how many individuals LABE reached through our programmes in 2025.Children in Home Learning Centre...
13/04/2026

10,618 people. That is how many individuals LABE reached through our programmes in 2025.

Children in Home Learning Centres. Parents in parenting sessions. Women in savings groups. Adults in literacy classes. Every number in our Annual Report represents a real person in a real community across Northern Uganda and West Nile.

Our 2025 Annual Report is out now. See what a year of work looks like 👉🏾 https://shorturl.at/ayG2y

This week, LABE Uganda joined the Welcome Sesame: Inclusion & Belonging for Displaced Learners Advocacy Workshop in Kamp...
09/04/2026

This week, LABE Uganda joined the Welcome Sesame: Inclusion & Belonging for Displaced Learners Advocacy Workshop in Kampala, and our Parent Educators took centre stage as co-presenters.

They led live demonstrations of integrated classroom sessions, giving a room full of key ECD stakeholders a first-hand experience of what social-emotional learning, inclusion, and belonging actually look like in practice.

This isn't theoretical. These approaches are part of the Family Basic Education (FABE) model that LABE has developed over more than three decades, community-rooted, evidence-based, and led by the people closest to children.

Together with Sesame Workshop and partners, we made the case for Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) to be recognised as foundational to early learning in Uganda, and for these methods to be embedded in both pre-service and in-service training through Primary Teachers' Colleges nationwide.

The evidence is clear. The demonstrations spoke for themselves. Now it is time to scale.

Happy Easter to all our partners, friends, and families! Wishing you and your loved ones a season of hope, renewal, and ...
05/04/2026

Happy Easter to all our partners, friends, and families! Wishing you and your loved ones a season of hope, renewal, and joy. From all of us at LABE Uganda.

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Kyadondo, Block 220, Plot 1527
Kampala

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Monday 09:00 - 17:00
Tuesday 09:00 - 17:00
Wednesday 09:00 - 17:00
Thursday 09:00 - 17:00
Friday 09:00 - 17:00

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