Blog Archives
Uganda: Photo Friday
February 22, 2013 by Bethany Williams
Students from an Invisible Children Uganda partner school, Gulu High, play traditional instruments. These students are part of a unique program at the school designed for the visually impaired.
Schools for Schools: there’s always more to learn
January 25, 2013 by Germina Nanfuka
Teachers from Invisible Children Uganda partner schools were given an opportunity to acquire new computer knowledge, skills and working methods through a one week computer training at Sacred Heart School. The training, conducted this week by Schools for Schools (S4S), is designed to support teachers and build their capacity to help students. Computer applications like [...] Read More
Welcome to Invisible Children Uganda
January 21, 2013 by Bethany Williams
Just this morning, we welcomed a group of students and staff from Franklin College in Indiana who were traveling through Uganda and decided to swing by the Invisible Children Uganda (ICU) office while in Gulu. Obviously everyone can’t just hop on a plane to Uganda, but we thought you might like a peek inside the [...] Read More
Schools for Schools: year in review
December 7, 2012 by Bethany Williams
The year has been a full one for the Schools for Schools (S4S) team, between hardware projects (the construction of buildings) and software projects (trainings and capacity building). These are some of the highlights from the year: Computer literacy can be low in northern Uganda, even among teachers who are responsible for preparing students to [...] Read More
Teacher Exchange: meet Patrick
October 31, 2012 by Bethany Williams
“It’s great to see students who start with lots of problems improving,” Drago Patrick, a mathematics and geography teacher at Gulu High School, says. By partner teaching with Teacher Exchange educators who have come to Uganda in the past, Patrick says that he has learned to be more patient with his students. “It has [...] Read More
Uganda: Photo Friday
October 5, 2012 by Bethany Williams
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 [...] Read More
Schools for Schools: Big savings
July 28, 2012 by Bethany Williams
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 [...] Read More
Schools for Schools: connecting worlds
July 19, 2012 by Bethany Williams
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 [...] Read More
Schools for Schools: building opportunities
July 9, 2012 by Bethany Williams
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 [...] Read More
Teacher Exchange: Students of culture
June 28, 2012 by Bethany Williams
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 [...] Read More
