Stories from the ground

Jeanine always dreamed of going to Africa. As a teacher from the Netherlands, she was curious to see how education worked in different parts of the world. During a trip to Uganda, a visit to the Katunguru community changed her journey. What she saw at the school and the children she met inspired her to take action.

Every child in our schools now has a brand-new uniform. It sounds simple. But for children who have never owned something that marks them as a student — as someone who belongs — it changes everything about how they walk through the school gate each morning.

A volunteer who came for two weeks left after two months — and returned the following year. This is her story of what Katunguru does to people who stay long enough to really see it.

What started as a donated box of textbooks became the foundation of our first school library. This is how that happened — and why it matters more than the books themselves.