St. John Bosco Teacher Training Institute-Lodonga Community

This Teacher Training College trains primary School Teachers in the entire West Nile Region of Uganda. They have trained thousands of Primary School Teachers since 1995; under the Catholic influence, they produce teachers with high moral standards in the country. It has for decades been the best Teacher Training College under the able leadership of the Missionaries of Jesus the Divine Master. They provide support supervision to 384 primary school teachers in the districts of Koboko, Terego, Yumbe, Moyo, Obongi and Adjumani.

Location; History, Growth and Set Back of the College

The College has a designated piece of land duly leased by the proprietor (Arua Diocese). The land it owns is 36,000 acres. Area covered by the existing structures is 9.53 acres. The College is located in Basilica Cell, Rembeta Ward, Lodonga Town Council, Aringa South Constituency, Yumbe District.

It is 75.1 kilometres North of Arua Town and 522 kilometers from Kampala via Masindi. It was founded on 31st January, 1945 by Fr. Peter Traversi solely to train gentlemen (single sex College). Prior to its foundation, the teacher trainees from West Nile region had their training in Lira. The College started as a National Teachers’ Centre by Comboni Missionaries to train Grade 1 Teachers.

It was envisaged to cater for the Local Language Lugbara ti and Ma’di since the Teacher Trainees from West Nile had problems with Luo Language The College developed and progressed from VTT College to Grade Two (11) in 1956, Grade Three (111) in 1986 and became co-educational in 1992. In July 2001, the College was elevated to the status of Core PTC to handle both Pre-service and Outreach programmes.

The wars of the 1980s during which all buildings of the College were raged down and many documents destroyed.In 1999 when Government withdrew its Grant in- Aid. The College operated for one term as a Private PTC. His Excellency the President of the Republic of Uganda, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, reinstated the Grant-in-Aid in the same year.