Uganda: Photo Friday
Richard, an Invisible Children Uganda site supervisor, stands on the second floor of his favorite project to date: the Gulu SS multipurpose hall. Schools for Schools (S4S) partners with 11 schools in northern Uganda to improve the quality of education through ‘hardware’ (construction) projects and ‘software’ (education) projects, like teacher trainings and a program to […]
Schools for Schools: Big savings
Money is tight these days, including in Uganda. According to Uganda Bureau of Statistics, last year Uganda faced the highest inflation rate since 1993 with inflation rates escalating up to 28.3%. The current tough economic times have seen high inflation rates, high interest rates, low pay of teachers in government schools and general income inequality […]
Schools for Schools: connecting worlds
After driving for over an hour to get to one of Invisible Children’s (IC) partner schools in Anaka, Amy remembers, “My first thought stepping off the bus and scanning the grounds was ‘I cannot wait to tell everyone back home how successful our partner school is.’” It may seem odd to care deeply about individuals […]
Schools for Schools: building opportunities
This past week, Invisible Children’s (IC) partner schools in northern Uganda had some visitors. Students from the U.S. and Canada raised money for building projects at 11 schools in northern Uganda during the Schools for Schools campaign, and this week some of them had the opportunity to visit those schools and get to know the […]
Teacher Exchange: Students of culture
Our Teacher Exchange program allows Ugandan and international educators to create teaching partnerships with their counterparts, and exposes students to a world outside their borders. The program brings secondary school teachers abroad to team-teach and interact with Ugandan teachers for six weeks every June and July and sends Ugandan teachers to the U.S. to do […]
Schools for Schools: Study with all your heart
It takes 19 years for a Ugandan student to graduate with a university degree. Nineteen years is a long time to wait for an uncertain future, and during those 19 years, dropping out of school to work looms as a very real option. Most students from poor families don’t have the role models and mentors […]
Behind the Scenes: Schools for Schools
Students in Uganda have been scoring low in science exams, and teachers are working hard to change those results. Schools for Schools (S4S) held its first chemistry teachers’ review meeting to equip teachers from Invisible Children’s 11 partner schools with skills that will improve students’ grades in science. The teachers strongly welcomed the training and were […]