A girl in my social studies class at affluent Fairview High School in Boulder, CO shares with the class about her recent service trip to Malawi. As she tells us about the latrines she built and the holes she dug,…
One School founders Bay Roberts and Patty Gilbert receiving the International Human Rights Award from the United Nations Association of Boulder in February, 2014. (Click to view larger) The following article by Tyler Abboud and published by the United Nations…
A student (here and below) at the Kyamulinga School, Uganda (Click images to view larger) Blog post by Ken Driese, One School at a Time board member: I went to Uganda (in 2009) as a well-educated Westerner and college…
A billboard in Uganda. Blog post by One School Director, Bay Roberts and Board Member, Kathy Buehmann. When people ask me, “What is the hardest part of working in Uganda?” the answer is easy: corruption. In Uganda, corruption is part…
Locals installing a water system at the Kyamulinga School. (Click images to view larger) Blog post by One School board member Kathy Buehmann. While still in college, I took a class called Writing for Science and…
A student at the Kyamulinga School in rural Uganda. (Click on images to view larger) Recent press, including this article from NBC News, describes Oxfam’s contention that the relentless depiction of starving children and hopeless poverty in Africa has given rise to…
Street scene, Kampala, Uganda “Africa Rising” is the cover story of a recent issue of The Economist (December 3-9), and there are three major articles in the magazine about economic growth (or lack thereof) in Africa. The first article, Africa Rising, provides…
Welcome to the One School at a Time blog! We’re a small non-profit organization based in Boulder, Colorado that works with rural Ugandan schools to help them provide a better education to the children in each school community. One School…