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    May 3, 2012

    Introducing Kabasegwa

    Today marks the start of the future Building Tomorrow Academy of Kabasegwa (#14!), supported by Kappa Kappa Gamma at The University of Texas at Austin! [...]

    filed under: Blog, Photos — Tags: , , , — admin @ 2:42 pm

    April 30, 2012

    Teacher housing, latrines, roofs & meetings

    Downtime is hard to come by for our team in Uganda. With latrine construction and teacher housing going up at Bubeezi, finishing touches and truss-work [...]

    filed under: Blog, Photos — Tags: , — admin @ 2:43 pm

    April 27, 2012

    Hope Biked to Uganda!

    On Friday, April 20th, the Building Tomorrow chapter at Hope College in Holland, MI Biked to Uganda and raised $4,023 towards a new BT academy [...]

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    April 25, 2012

    Reflections on CGI-U

    Liz Braden, my chapter advisor, sent me an e-mail asking if I wanted to spend the weekend in Washington D.C. with Bill Clinton. It took [...]

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    April 12, 2012

    Building Tomorrow chapter hosts Ugandan speaker

    written by: Callie Cox l Staff Writer | Doane Line
    Passion drives him to help women and children in Uganda, he is fluent in eight languages [...]

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    April 9, 2012

    Pay it Forward

    A couple times each week, I field a phone call from our Country Director in Uganda, Joseph Kaliisa. He updates the construction progress at a [...]

    filed under: Blog — Tags: , — admin @ 10:09 am

    April 6, 2012

    Students bike to raise awareness for education in Uganda

    originally in the Indiana Daily Student
    written by Michael Majchrowicz
    photo credit: Chet Strange, Indiana Daily Student

    During the last two days, IU students traveled 7,500 miles without [...]

    filed under: Blog, Events — Tags: , , , , — admin @ 11:06 am

    March 15, 2012

    Health & Education

    “The best way to cyclically improve health is by giving children an education.”
    We’ve always been big believers that getting involved and being involved in our [...]

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    March 13, 2012

    Service Learning at Mercer

    “I want to experience the kind of happiness that comes from helping someone and getting nothing in return,”
    wrote Brianne Bower, an honors student at [...]

    filed under: Blog — Tags: , , , — admin @ 1:28 pm

    March 6, 2012

    Dream big!

    A couple of weeks ago we got an email, completely out of the blue, from Sydni, a youth director from St. Peter’s United Methodist Church [...]

    filed under: Blog — Tags: , — admin @ 3:17 pm

    February 22, 2012

    Organization raising money to construct schoolhouse in Uganda

    By John Roberts, Newspage Editor & Erikah Haavie, Contributing Writer
    Furman University Campus News
    7,613 miles: The approximate distance between Greenville, S.C., and Kampala, Uganda. 3 miles: [...]

    filed under: News — Tags: , , — admin @ 8:50 pm

    February 17, 2012

    Patrick

    Got an email this week that made our day. Seriously. Here’s the gist:
    It was from Empower African Children, an organization providing scholarships to Uganda’s top [...]

    filed under: Blog, Meet... — Tags: , , — admin @ 3:24 pm

    February 16, 2012

    The Importance of Building Tomorrow

    -Hayley Swindell
    The Odyssey Online – Texas – Kappa Kappa Gamma
    A reoccurring problem that our world seems to constantly be faced with is our twisted way [...]

    filed under: News — Tags: , — admin @ 10:37 am

    January 30, 2012

    #OneDaysEducation

    Last week, former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown released a report saying “the world is facing a hidden and silent emergency in education.” We couldn’t [...]

    filed under: Blog, Videos — Tags: , — admin @ 12:39 pm

    January 27, 2012

    Bubeezi is open!

    The Building Tomorrow Academy of Bubeezi, supported by The Engage Network, officially opened this morning. Students will begin class at the start of the first [...]

    filed under: Blog, Photos — Tags: , , , — admin @ 4:27 pm

    January 24, 2012

    Shotgun

    Chances are, you don’t remember the first time you rode in a car. In fact, unless you’ve just taken a newborn home from the hospital, [...]

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    January 10, 2012

    The Hip Humanitarian Project collects and auctions high-end fashion to benefit local charities

    filed under: News — Tags: , , — admin @ 2:45 pm

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