Collaborations
Bead for Life Supports Our Programs with New Partner School
 Bead For Life (beadforlife.com), another non-profit working in Uganda, has generously granted funds to One School at a Time to develop programs at Kukanga Government Primary School.
Programs include:
- garden and school lunch
- supplies for menstruating girls
- rain water collection system, cistern and treadle pump
Dr. Musaazi is an engineering professor at Makerere University in Kampala and the founder of Technology for Tomorrow. Dr. Musaazi and his team have developed innovative solutions to some of Africa’s most basic and pressing problems: sanitation, clean water, health, and environmental degradation.
Acknowledging that trying to radically change the behavior of African people is ineffective, Dr. Musaazi has developed new technologies and devices that work with already established habits and customs. All of these technologies, when installed in schools, can greatly benefit children.
For example, he has created an affordable sanitary pad made of papyrus and paper waste. Girls frequently drop out of school when they start menstruating because their parents can not afford to provide them with sanitary pads. Dr. Musaazi has implemented cost-effective programs in schools where the girls themselves build the pads from materials he supplies.
Deforestation is a serious problem in Uganda. Wood is used exclusively for burning bricks and for cooking. To address this issue, Dr. Musaazi has developed an interlocking soil brick which requires no firing and is stronger than burnt bricks . Schools that use this brick press can build their bricks on site without a single tree needing to be cut down to fire the brick kiln!
Other T4T technologies that can be used in schools are water filtration systems, rainwater harvesting systems, solid waste incinerator (to eliminate dangerous trash piles), fuel-efficient cooking stoves, and low cost lighting.
One School at a Time plans to fund programs to integrate Dr. Musaazi’s technologies at all of our partner schools.
University of Maryland Students Assist One School Build Classrooms
Hawk Children's Fund
 Students in Hotel and Restaurant Management at University of Maryland (UMES) have formed their own nonprofit, Hawk Children's Fund. As of March 2009, they have successfully raised over $8,000 for the construction project to build classrooms and a water-collection system for Kyamulinga Primary School.
Students hosted luncheons and parties and created a "buy a brick" campaign and other events to promote their cause. They have watched with interest and pride as Kyamulinga classrooms have been built brick by brick.
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