L.E.A.D Uganda is an educational leadership program that transforms traumatized children living on the edges of society into leaders.
We locate bright and motivated children – AIDS orphans, former child soldiers, abducted girls, child laborers – who have the raw materials to succeed but lack opportunity.
We give them a family so they can heal.
We treat our students like we care for our own children, not as objects of charity. The family culture we created gives them confidence.
We pay their schools fees to attend the top boarding schools in the country.
L.E.A.D has more students in top schools than any other NGO in Uganda.
We mentor them so they gain the entrepreneurial skills and confidence needed to excel academically, and go on to become leaders in their communities.
Our students function at a high level. They attend school with the elite of Uganda - including children of cabinet ministers - and outperform them.
In the past three years, eight of our 21 high school graduates earned university scholarships.
No other NGO in Uganda specializing in education has accomplished this. In a country where 26,000 college graduates a year can’t find jobs, our students are starting businesses and employing others.
L.E.A.D’s approach is a game changer.
We represent what aid to Africa should look like in the 21st century. We discover extraordinary minds at the bottom of society and transform their world view so they can “fly.” We teach them to be powerful – to join the elite, while not forgetting where they come from.
Our students believe they can achieve anything if they work hard. We imbue them with a desire to serve. L.E.A.D’s scholars will create real change in Africa.
Our work is innovative.
We are not about incremental change that keeps people one step above abject poverty. We transform youth that society sees as “helpless victims” into entrepreneurial leaders. This is the profile of many innovators who changed society. Steven Jobs was an “outsider inside”.
L.E.A.D has electrified Ugandans.
John Nagenda, Senior Advisor, Media and Public Relations to President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda says,
“You’ve got these kids who are very disadvantaged, either because of poverty, or because of the war, or because of AIDS. At L.E.A.D they can go to the best schools.
The chances are very good that they will be among the leaders of this country.”
