is to advance the social, personal and economic development of children and youth in Uganda through greater access to education, technology and other life changing resources.
Help Uganda's children today become Uganda's leaders tomorrow.
Promote education and vocational opportunities. Renovate and construct school facilities to be sanitary and suitable for safe learning. Provide professional development for teachers and administrators. Increase environmental awareness. Promote gender equality.
The EdFund Uganda Foundation will invest in the schools of Kamuli, Uganda to enhance the opportunity and accessibility of education for youth and community; as a means for empowering productive citizenship.
Despite recent economic progress, Uganda remains one of the poorest nations in the world, with the World bank reporting that 42% of the population lives on just $2.15 per day.
The formal education system was started by English missionaries in 1895 when the first school was enstablished. Many of the current schools were built by the Indian population in the 1950s. But with the banishment of the Indian population during the Idi Amin administration, schools were closed and formal education was severely disrupted. After the fall of the Amin administration, Uganda struggled with reestablishing a formal education system. To compound matters, a booming population combined with a lack of government funding has left old schools decaying and no resources to build new ones.
EdFund Uganda Foundation is to restore the historical education infrastructure and bring new technology into the classroom. Many of the current schools built in the 1950s fell into total disrepair or closed following the political instability of the Idi Amin era. Because there has been a lack of government funding to renovate these structures, EdFund’s school rebuilding work directly fills a critical infrastructural void. By targeting large institutions like the Kamuli Township Primary School, which serves a massive student population of 2,500 children, EdFund’s structural and educational interventions achieve immediate, large-scale success.
