A little more than five years ago, I set out to name a vision of engaging young people in the United States in the quest [...]
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October 21, 2011
Gita – The Whole Story
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In the fall of 2005, Jason Franasiak, recent graduate of the College of William & Mary, enrolled in the University of Virginia’s School of Medicine. [...]
October 19, 2011
Jonah & Sande
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Meet Jonah (13) & Sande (14 – pronounced like “Sunday”); two students at the Building Tomorrow Academy of Buwasa, supported by Global Playground.
Sande is [...]
October 14, 2011
You’ve met George…now meet his sister.
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A while back we introduced you to George, a then 16 year-old who had made quite a name for himself in the village of Kiyamba, [...]
October 11, 2011
Meet Agnes
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Last week I found myself sitting amongst a group of kids doing my best to communicate in Luganda, which I’ll admit wasn’t very good, when [...]
October 6, 2011
Matching Gifts Multiplied
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A couple of months ago, One Day’s Wages, an organization devoted to eradicating extreme global poverty, awarded Building Tomorrow their largest matching grant to-date: $30,000 [...]
October 3, 2011
1.2 Million Reasons to Smile
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One awesome evolution of the Building Tomorrow model has been the willingness of communities to make significant investments in the idea of a community supported [...]
