SCHOOL FOR LIFE WORKS IN RURAL UGANDA WHERE, WITH YOUR HELP, WE HAVE MADE A REAL IMPACT WITH OUR COMMUNITY-LED PROJECTS IN EDUCATION, HEALTH AND EMPLOYMENT SOLUTIONS. 

We’re a little charity making a big impact!

Your generosity and the generosity of people around the world helped us establish Katuuso Primary and Vocational School in 2011.

In 2015, in partnership with the Cotton On Foundation, we began construction of another primary and secondary school in the community of Mbazzi.

We are now running 3 fully operational schools, employing 120 staff and educating 1,700 students from pre-school to Senior 5. 

EXTENDING OUR REACH

Education has been key to opening up other opportunities in healthcare, agriculture and the environment. We provide health and nutrition services, promote and implement sustainable projects, and we have established tailoring and agricultural programs to promote sustainable economic development in communities where we work. In 2023, we piloted a Government primary school partnership to implement our quality education model in local schools. This program is focused on increasing access and attendance, health and nutrition and capacity development and empowerment for staff and parents. We are providing nutritious meals, infrastructure, clean water, skilling programs, capacity development for staff, reusable menstrual hygiene kits for girls and community outreach.

We are creating a model we can scale and replicate to change the lives of thousands more people.

OUR PROJECTS:

A FOUNDATION IN EDUCATION – AN IMPACT ON EVERYONE

We partner with, and empower, emerging communities around the globe to educate as many children as possible and achieve lasting self-determination, through sustainable and scalable capacity and infrastructure development. We operate 3 purpose-built schools, employ qualified teachers and provide healthy, nutritious meals to children so that we can continue to deliver quality education to the children who need it most. 

According to the United Nations, In Sub-Saharan Africa, 90% of the children who are in school are not learning effectively due to a lack of learning resources and safe learning environments, nutritious meals, healthcare, low capacity of teachers, and other barriers such as distance and school costs. It’s an overwhelming problem. We saw the massive need for education in rural Uganda and after 15 years of operation we are now replicating our Quality Educational Model to more schools across East Africa.

We are currently supporting 3 local government schools in our community, as well as partnering with three grassroots educational organisations across East Africa, to ensure we can expand our impact sustainably and continue to reach the most vulnerable children.

To date we have raised more than A$29 million and mobilised the support of thousands of people around the world who have helped us: 

• Educate more than 4,000 students annually

• Employ more than 140 adults in related roles

• Train 15 and employ 10 women as tailors

• Provide 3 nutritious meals a day for all our staff and students

• Provide clean drinking water to the entire Katuuso and Mbazzi communities

• Facilitate healthcare days for the Katuuso and Mbazzi communities

• Distributed 7,000 menstrual hygiene kits to women and girls in the community

Together we can continue to do what’s needed to give every child a quality grassroots education and a proven way out of poverty.

HOW CAN YOU HELP?

We couldn’t do what we do without the support of our generous donors. You can join our mission to educate poverty out of existence by providing a child with a Scholarship, or donating a recurring or one-off gift. Change a child’s life today!