Outstanding Uganda’s teacher unionist receives national honour medal

Former Education International’s Executive Board member Teopista Birungi Mayanja has been given by the president the Uganda’s medal of the Order of the Golden Jubilee in the education field.

On 8 March, International Women’s Day, Birungi Mayanja received from the hand of Uganda’s President H.E. Y.K Museveni the medal of the Order of the Golden Jubilee for her contribution to education nationally and globally, as a teacher, an advocate for education, founder of the very dynamic Uganda National Teachers’ Union, an education manager, a sport teacher, an athlete; and for her nomination to the International Commission on Financing Global Education, along with 20 other high-level people in September 2015.