Uganda currently hosts over 1.5 million refugees, making it the largest host country in Sub-Saharan Africa. Within these fragile contexts, education is predominantly delivered through non-formal pathways such as the Accelerated Education Programme (AEP).
Educators working in these environments are tasked with navigating immense daily challenges, including severely overcrowded classrooms, diverse multilingual learner backgrounds, and high levels of student trauma.
Compounding these pedagogical hurdles is a harsh systemic reality defined by digital exclusion. Teachers routinely operate in low-resource environments characterized by intermittent electricity, low internet bandwidth, shared mobile devices, and a lack of prior digital training. Because global Generative AI tools are typically designed for high-tech, high-bandwidth Western classrooms, bringing them into the Ugandan AEP context exposes a massive "design-reality gap". If technological integration is not deliberately adapted to these material realities, it risks widening the digital divide and exacerbating existing inequalities.