New outreach to benefit more than 18,000 students.
An Indianapolis-based non-profit social enterprise has announced a new
commitment to construct a total of 60 primary-level Building Tomorrow
Academies in East Africa and to launch an initiative aimed at improving
the quality of education in Ugandan communities by training over 450
current and future educators and developing a rural-relevant classroom
curriculum.
The commitment, announced at the 2011
Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting in New York City runs
through 2016 and will harness partnerships already built with student
chapters at U.S. institutions including the University of Notre Dame,
Indiana University and the University of Texas–Austin as well as the
Ugandan Ministry of Education and Sports.
“We’re
continuing to see an incredible embrace of the Building Tomorrow
model–more so with each new academy we announce,” Founder and Chief
Dreamer of Building Tomorrow George Srour said. “Just this week we’ve
visited with two new partner communities that have independently made
overwhelming contributions with land, labor and construction materials
to support Building Tomorrow’s efforts.”
In just
under five years, Building Tomorrow has engaged thousands of students in
the United States in service-learning, awareness, fundraising and
design activities to support the construction of primary-level academies
in Uganda. Today, Building Tomorrow counts seven open academies
enrolling 1,500 underserved students with commitments for another ten to
be constructed. Building Tomorrow’s unique cost-sharing approach means
each donor community’s funds will be matched, in-kind, with the donation
of land and approximately 20,000 hours of volunteer labor by each
partnering Ugandan community.
“While focusing on
what happens inside the classroom is new territory for us, we know it is
a matter of critical importance to our parents and, most of all,
students,” Building Tomorrow Uganda Country Director Joseph Kaliisa
said.
For more information see Building
Tomorrow’s Clinton Global Initiative Commitment:
http://www.clintonglobalinitiative.org/commitments/commitments_search.asp?id=732518
Building
Tomorrow is an international social-profit organization encouraging
philanthropy among young people by raising awareness and funds to build
and support educational infrastructure projects for underserved children
in sub-Saharan Africa. BT works with a college network of over 25
chapters nationwide and has a partnership with the 245,000
members-strong Key Club International, the world’s largest high school
service organization.
For more information, visit
www.buildingtomorrow.org.
Rapid Rural Development Implementation Foundation (RARUDEIF)is a national Non-Government and Non-profit Organization with registration number OONGO /1243 under the Non Governmental Organization (NGO) Act No.24 of year 2002 of the United Republic of Tanzania,laws. RARUDEIF act as a link to development between rural communities through out Tanzania and supporters of development, both locally and internationally.
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