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National Exam Results – 8 Receive 1st Grades – Admitted to Top School

shames — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:04:58 +0000

At the end of Senior 4, students in Uganda take a natinal exam. 8 of out of our 9 candidates received 1st grades on the exam.

The eight were admitted to top schools for their A Level grades: Senior 5 & 6.

Kimbowa and Baidu joined Seeta High School. Juujo was admitted to St. Henry’s Kitovu. Stephen remained at Namugongo. Orach, Ongom, Ocen and Brian will go to Naggalama.

We are proud of them all. They worked hard. After Senior 6 these AIDS orphans, former child soldiers, child laborers, and street kids will go to university.

New staff member

shames — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:59:05 +0000

22 of L.E.A.D Uganda’s 90 students come from war-torn northern Uganda.

To better serve them, we hired Juliana Adokorach as Program Officer for northern Uganda.

Ms. Adokorach worked with traumatized children who were living positively with AIDS at TASO. Juliana hails from Gulu

12 new students – mostly girls

shames — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:58:15 +0000

We admitted a dozen new students for the 2010 school year – which started in February. 8 girls and 4 boys were chosen. 10 are primary students. Nine of them were admitted to top schools: Budo Junior and St. John Bosco Katende. One 7th grader, a candidate class, is not allowed to switch schools this year. Our two new high school students are in top schools.

See our other new students

Emails from Moses in India

shames — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:55:03 +0000

Hi Dad, My school- is a very good school. I like it because there are a lot of students from different places especially Asians. It makes me feel good to be one of the pioneer African students at school. My roommates is a Ugandan who a got a scholarship too. There are also students from South Africa and the Ivory Coast. The food is too spicey but I am kinda of getting used to it. Though when I first arrived, I hardly ate.

II enjoy electronics class. I managed to get a third position in a group discussion which was organised on science day celebrations at school. I also got selected on the school basketball team, thanks to Brian Moll who used to teach me while we played against each other.

What i like about india is that there is a high rate of infrastructure development. A lot is lacking in Uganda. Our generation must work on these things in the next five years. This is what Uganda must do to attain a rate of development equivalent to countries like India, which were once third world but are now advancing:

• empower women,
• invest in education,
• encourage investments through offering incentives,
• offer help to NGOs like L.E.A.D Uganda

People in india are hardworking. I guarantee you in the next 20 years India is going to have a strong economy which will see its GDP rise more than that of America.

I had never seen women engineers who work on building sites but I was astonished when I noticed that in india actually they might be more than the men. There is no job discrimination. In fact most of the lecturers at our school are women

Thank you for laying a foundation for me. It is now up to me to build on it.

Moses

Hi, Dad
Here is my academic progress report for the mid-semester exams. I was ranked best in the class.
Moses
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Hi, Scholarships were awarded last semester to the most outstanding students who displayed leadership potential. I was the best in my class last so iIwas chosen. Professors are coming from the USA to teach the workshop. One of them is an advisor and consultant to over 53 internation companies on matters relating to leadership and development issues so am really happy and proud of myself that I was picked.
lots of love
moses
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Dad, I want to conduct a five day leadership and organization development program with 5 LEAD Uganda students when I come home on break.This will motivate them and they will probably learn a lot from this as I did. This could be the begining of something new in the program. As the program’s motive is to create FUTURE leaders this will really be a big oppurtunity.I can’t wait to conduct this workshop.
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Hi Dad, i wanted to inform that I am really happy that i am here in India and do not regret ever coming here.Its the best place to pursue my career in software engineering and programing. Thank you for your encouragement. I am really happy. I just feel even though you are not near me, with your words, I just feel I am complete. Dad you can always count on me and I will never disappoint you.
Moses

New primary school students joined L.E.A.D Uganda this month.

shames — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:38:16 +0000

4 of them were accepted to Budo Junior, Uganda’s top-ranked primary school.
4 entered St. John Bosco Katende, another excellent school.

See a few of them on our photo essay page:
http://www.leaduganda.org/who-we-are/photo-essays/

Sanyu on CNN’s Inside Africa

shames — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 03:59:20 +0000

L.E.A.D Uganda student Sanyu was interviewed by CNN’s Inside Africa.

See the interview

January 9, 2010. Kampala, Uganda. Sanyu teaches a public speaking workshop for the fifteen new L.E.A.D Uganda students. “I did this because they were so shy and spoke so softly. I wanted to help them become leaders,” said Sanyu. Most of the new students are primary school girls.

Sanyu & Nokrach visit Welsh Valley School

shames — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 18:58:20 +0000

Sanyu & Nokrach talked to students at Welsh Valley Middle School on Monday.
Sandy Edelstein posted this on her website:

http://www.yourmomentscaught.com/

Please look at it. Nice photos and comments.

NEW. Just in time for Christmas. Shepard Fairey t-shirts

shames — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:45:02 +0000

Black American Apparel L.E.A.D Uganda T-shirt with Shepard Fairey’s Blanket image on it.

This t-shirt is the same used by Obey Clothing. The image is put on using an environmentally friendly, Discharge Printing process. Discharge printing embeds the inks into the shirt. It is water-based, as opposed to silk screening, which uses plastisol inks. Art Press, who printed the shirts uses all soy-based chemicals.

The shirt is soft because the inks are embedded into the shirt (as opposed to being on top of it). Each garment is unique. Colors may vary slightly due to the dyes in the shirt.

Buy them at our on-line store. http://www.leaduganda.org/shop/clothes/tshirts/lead-tshirt-men.html?options=cart

Reminder: Use GoodSearch and donate to LEAD Uganda

adrian — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:22:19 +0000

Greetings!

Just a reminder that there are only a few days left to ask, remind, and inspire everyone you know to begin all of their holiday shopping on GoodShop and raise money on behalf of L.E.A.D Uganda! (http://www.goodsearch.com)

GoodSearch is a search engine powered by Yahoo! that donates 1 cent to your designated charity for every time you search the web. Just visit GoodSearch, designate LEAD Uganda (brooklyn) as the “charity you GoodSearch for” and thats it! You can even add it to the upper right hand corner of your Firefox browser simply by clicking on the Firefox Pluggin. This is an easy way to support our efforts to educate Uganda’s young leaders.

Also, don’t forget, the easiest way to ensure that your purchases generate a free donation is to add their new toolbar to your browser. Just send an email to information@goodsearch.com and they will build it for you ASAP! Easy and very, very helpful.

Sanyu on CNN!!

kelly — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:47:35 +0000

Check out, Sanyu, one of our L.E.A.D Uganda children on CNN today. The video interview will be aired later this evening! She did a GREAT job and we are very proud of her!

http://connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com/2009/11/30/tuesdays-connector-of-the-day-sanyu-nakyeyune/