Educate!
aims to educate and empower the next generation
of socially responsible leaders in Africa.
Started
by students, Educate! provides high potential
refugees and underprivileged nationals in Uganda
with a quality education, completely transforming
their lives. Our students, identified as having
great promise to impact their communities and
society as a whole, escape the difficult conditions
from which they come and receive food, safety,
and healthcare in addition to an education.
To
further our mission, we are developing new programs
that aim to promote leadership, social responsibility,
and social entrepreneurship among students.
Read more about our
preliminary plans.
Follow
Educate!'s latest on the ground developments, as described
by director Eric Glustrom, our students, and our volunteers
at Educate!'s
blog!
Educate!
student Joseph Munyambanza accepted into first class
of African Leadership Academy.
A sure sign of the high level of achievement expected
of the extremely capable Educate! students, Joseph
Munyambanza, 18, will be a member of the very first
African Leadership Academy class when the school opens
its doors this September. Joseph will travel to South
Africa from Uganda to enroll in the innovative new
school that combines rigorous academics with leadership
training, African studies, and Community Service,
a school he hopes will bring him closer to his goals
of solving the problems he sees in his community,
country, and Africa as a whole. Read
more...
Reporter
Wins Award
Aimee
Heckel, reporter at the Boulder, CO Daily Camera,
won two outstanding awards from the Colorado
Associated Press for her series, Dream Deferred, about
Educate!. Read
the series here.
Educate!
Student, Marcel Bahati, Interviewed on Boulder Radio
Station KGNU
Marcel
Bahati, an Educate! student at Kyambogo University
in Kampala, Uganda; Lizzi Lombardi, the leader of
the Educate! student club at Boulder High School in
Colorado; and Marjorie and Dick McIntosh, two supporters
of Educate! who have taught in Uganda are interviewed
by KGNU in a program about education in Uganda and
the role of Educate!. Listen
here.
Learn
about Educate!'s 2007 trip to Uganda by reading
Educate!'s blog. The trip laid the foundation
for Educate!'s strategic direction in the future and
led to the development of three new programs. Download
a
slide show about the trip.
Educate!
Students Inspire Donors
Several
Educate! students, led by Marcel Bahati and Benson
Wereje, recently motivated two devout Educate! donors
to start their own aid initiative. Working through
Marcel and Benson, Think
Humanity aims to provide refugees in Kyangwali
refugee camp with anti-malarial medicine and bed nets.
