RFI: Contacts for research purposes
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Hi,
My name is Aloysius Bukenya. I am a Ugandan by nationality (Af-
rica), and I feel that I have a role to play in helping chil-
dren, teenagers and young people in constructively facing a
better future through holistic education.
I am a student researcher at an educational course in the Uni-
versity of Warwick, doing a doctor of education course. My re-
search interests focus on the educational pastoral care for
secondary school students.
I am writing this as an introductory message, and I hope that
perhaps in the future I can be in a very lively dialogue with
your organisation, in which I hope to be very much enriched.
I intend to carry out an empirical research in my home district
of Raki, Southern Uganda. I intend to carry it out for six
months beginning with July 2000.
The people in Rakai district have been terribly hit by the en-
demic HIV/AIDS. I therefore would like to study the general so-
cial impact that the endemic has had on the emotional, psycho-
logical, spiritual, moral, academic and cultural standing of
the teenagers in secondary schools.
The reason I am writing to you to ask you to help me if you
can, to be my contacts, who I suppose are experts at the many
problems that children and teenagers face not necessarily in
Uganda but anywhere around the world as a result of poor
health, illness of beloved ones and bereavement. What I am
looking at the moment is something quite general, so long as it
relates with certain consequences of the HIV/AIDS.
Actually to consider yourself helpful to me one does not have
to necessarily be a specialist in my focused area of inquiry. I
am interested in live experiences of social workers who deal
with any people who in different ways are affected by the
HIV/AIDS endemic.
I hope that any assistance in form of literature, contacts for
conferences or seminars, you are likely to get for me will help
me to get better prepared in my future research interests in
Uganda.
Actually, I hope that after completing my course, I can be
given an opportunity to work with any African country, Uganda
being my first preference, to work among the demoralised stu-
dents who feel the pain the endemic in their emotional life.
I hope to hear from you as soon as it can be convenient for you
to reply my e-mail message.
Thanks,
Yours faithfully
Aloysius Bukenya
mailto:office@mtcarmel.u-net.com
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