About us
Meet our Program Manager in Uganda
 Hussein is a certified teacher with an extensive backgroundworking in all aspects of education. Before signing on with One School at a Time, he worked for World Learning Inc. on a project that assisted Muslim girls to stay in school. Hussein is married, has three young children and lives in Mbale near the Kenyan border.
Since 2006 Hussein has worked as One School at a Time's Program Manager in Uganda. He works at our partner schools where he develops partnerships, provides technical support and implements our targeted programs.
Hussein is passionate about education and children and is a great asset to our program. Salaam Alakum Hussein!
Who we are in the United States
Bay Roberts, Patty Gilbert, Sari Ghiselli and Sandy Pletschet are four moms here in the United States who care about children and education. Patty, Bay and Sandy have traveled to Uganda numerous times since this project began in 2005.
Bay, Patty and Sari
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 History of One School at a Time
In 2005, Patty Gilbert and Bay Roberts traveled to Uganda, Africa to visit a little girl named Juliet Birungi (right) who had been recently orphaned. We wanted to help this child and other children like her. Upon visiting Juliet’s school, The Rock Foundation School, located in the slums of Kampala, we found a "school" with 500 students and one textbook, temporary classrooms with no windows and doors, dirt floors, no electricity, no running water, no scholastic materials, no blackboards, no playground and a staff of poorly trained, inexperienced teachers who frequently were not paid.
 We spent over two weeks at the school, observing and making friends. We decided upon our return home that we would dedicate ourselves to partnering with targeted impoverished Ugandan schools to better the lives of the children. The Rock Foundation School was our first partner school.
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