Global Education Giving Day: November 22nd

School for Life is proud to be launching Global Education Giving Day. A day all about transforming lives through education. Every child in Uganda and around the world, deserves access to quality education in a safe environment. But to make this vision a reality, we need your help.

What is Global Education Giving Day?

On Global Education Giving Day, 22nd November every dollar you donate to School for Life will be tripled.

This means your generosity can help three times as many children and communities. 

Every donation ensures more children have access to quality, safe education helping to shape brighter, sustainable futures for whole communities.

Thanks to the support of our matching partners, your impact this Giving Day will be amplified threefold to help more children like 10-year-old Hannah in Uganda. 

Hannah’s family endure a level of poverty that most of us can't even imagine, living from day-to-day, missing meals and generally on the brink of collapse.  

Through a School for Life workshop, Hannah discovered a passion for making handcrafted soaps and body washes. With her new skills and support from her family, she now proudly sells her products helping her family to not only survive but thrive.  And with her teachers encouraging her to continue to pursue her dreams, Hannah not only runs her own small business but dreams of becoming a doctor! 

 That’s the power of education and the lasting difference you can create on 22nd November 2023.

Why Education in Uganda?

In a country where 1 in 3 children do not complete primary school, and 4 in 5 girls who enrol in primary school do not progress to high school, your support is vital to ensure gender equity and to empower girls and boys through education.

Providing quality education to children in developing communities equips them with the skills and confidence to live productive, fulfilled and independent lives.

School for Life supports students to reach their full potential through investing in Four key areas: 

QUALITY EDUCATION

  • Providing modern, safe and supportive learning environments, with classrooms filled with a wealth of amazing resources like computers, books, colouring pencils, paints and fun active learning aids.

  • Gender balance 50:50 ratio of girls to boys and a 30:1 student to teacher ratio.

  • Technology, digital and entrepreneurial skills development

  • A range of extracurricular school clubs and activities

  • Parents Days and sports carnivals and competitions

STUDENT WELLBEING

  • Health clinics staffed by qualified nurses.

  • Counselling and mentorship programs 

  • Menstrual Hygiene Management Program

  • Health screenings and vaccine programs

  • Healthy meals and access to clean water

CAPACITY BUILDING

  • Teachers have access to continuous professional development, including information and communication technology, STEM subject training, leadership coaching and mentoring.

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

  • Community education programs about parenting, children’s rights, sex education, drug and alcohol information.

  • Health, vaccine and hygiene outreach programs

  • Providing free, clean drinking water to communities.

With your support on Global Education Giving Day, School for Life can continue to deliver and expand these programs to educate and empower more students like Mable.

Having joined School for Life in 2019 in Year Five at Mbazzi Primary School, Mable is now in Senior One and is proud to be part of our girls boarding school community. Mable loves being a boarder because she can spend time with her friends and gets time to read books whereas at home she’d be expected to do ‘women’s chores’.

The Need

Our goal is to make sure that as many children as possible in developing countries have access to a high-quality education. We need to continue to increase our enrolments and the impact of our work annually to improve the lives of more vulnerable students across the globe.

The moment is here! Kids in countries like Uganda need your support to access a better education now to create stronger, sustainable futures for themselves and their communities. 

Help us raise $200K on November 22nd and our matching partners will contribute $400K. 

We can’t do it without you. Join the Movement and triple your impact now!

Thanks to the incredible support of our matching partners every dollar you donate on Global Education Giving Day has three times the power.

We can’t thank our generous partners enough for their commitment to this global movement and working together to create a lasting impact on the lives of so many children and communities.

Don’t miss your chance to triple your impact. Join the movement now, pledge your support and together, we can educate poverty out of existence.

JOIN US ON NOVEMBER 22

Success Stories
Goretti

Sweet and shy Goretti lives with her aunt, uncle and cousins in a small house in the local village. When Goretti was younger, she moved in with her aunt and uncle because her parents could no longer look after her. She was one of our first students at Katuuso Primary, starting in 2011 when she was just 4 years old. Now, Goretti is in Senior One at Mbazzi High School, and is relishing the honour of being a high school student in her community - something that is taken for granted in Australia, but in Uganda, represents freedom and opportunity. Goretti also loves attending School for Life because she hopes to one day become a pilot in Uganda - a dream which she knows can only be reached with the help of a good education.

Violah

Violah has been at School for Life since since she was six years old. Sadly, Violah has experienced hardship no child should ever deal with. Her Dad passed away three years ago, leaving her Mum without the financial means to support her family - so she left Violah and her siblings with their elderly grandmother. Every day, Violah has to wake up at 5am to fetch water, cook meals and make sure that her younger sisters are properly looked after. Then she walks half an hour to get to school. Despite this adversity, Violah has flourished at school and has made many friends. She loves that School for Life is "helping me to build a future". After finishing school, Violah hopes to become a teacher to help other children.

Umar

Umar is one of our best performing students at Mbazzi Riverside High School - but life has not always been easy for Umar. His father abandoned the family in 2015, leaving his mother to struggle to support her five children on her own. School for Life has provided Umar with opportunities that may never else have eventuated for him. Umar begun his journey with School for Life at Katuuso Primary School, where his academic ability was quickly revealed. Now, he is a thriving member of our Senior 1 class and a formidable wing on the football team. With a love for mathematics, Umar is set on studying electronic engineering after finishing his senior studies - a goal which he is the first to admit is now within reach thanks to the skills and resources provided to him by School for Life.

Rose Nambooze

Rose is a 32‐year‐old single mother of one. She started working with SFL in 2013, after taking part in our tailoring training program. Prior to working with us, she was unemployed and living in her father's home helping to care for her father, who had cataracts, and his farm.
Thanks to her full time employment, Rose was able to save enough money to pay for an eye operation and restore her father's sight, allowing him to return to work as a mechanic. Now, Rose has moved into her own home and no longer relies on her father financially. 

Joseph

Joseph is one of our Special Needs teachers at Katuuso. After surviving a severe case of malaria at age four, he was left permanently deaf. He was raised by his single mother and attended a nursery school for the handicapped and later transferred to a school for the Deaf in Kampala. He eventually mastered sign language and pursued a university degree in education. Joseph decided to become a teacher so that he could give the gift of education to others who are hearing impaired.

Teddy Namatovu

Teddy is a participant in the Kumi Tailoring Program and four of her five children attend Katuuso Primary School. She and her husband farm two acres of land, which supplies fluctuating revenue. Participation in the Kumi Tailoring Project has secured income to reliably pay for school fees, nutritious meals and renovations to the family home. Teddy has gained a great deal of self-esteem from her ability to support her family and she takes pride in independently financing the education of all five children. Teddy has also been working on her numeracy and administration skills. She was appointed Treasurer of the tailoring group and will be responsible for keeping records of their savings.

Flaviah Nassaazi

Flaviah Nassaazi started working at Katuuso Primary and Vocational School in 2011. Prior to cooking at the school, she and her husband were subsistence farmers. They worked tirelessly for small yields and minimal income to support their family. Flaviah's cooking job not only enables her to pay school fees for her children, but she has also invested in a local barbershop business. She is now passing her cooking skills onto her eldest son Frank, who has also joined the school's cooking staff. Flaviah and her husband attend the adult literacy classes offered weekly at the school. Her English and reading have improved immensely, as well as her confidence.

Rachel

In 2010, Rachel began as a cleaner at Katuuso Primary and Vocational School. She was working to save money to study to be a teacher at University. Thanks to Barrie and Simone Goldsmith, her dream of studying came true and she is now fully qualified.