Get to Know Us
our mission
Building Tomorrow (BT) empowers young people to invest their resources, time & talents in providing students in sub-Saharan Africa with access to an education.
our model
We engage students in service-learning, fundraising, awareness and design activities to generate support for the construction of primary-level academies in sub-Saharan Africa. We are currently building in Uganda where our partner communities match the students’ support by donating land for each academy and volunteering approximately 20,000 hours of self-labor to construct it.
They don’t have resources, pencils or pages to turn.
We could raise awareness but we thought we’d try more.
Let’s build them a school with a roof and a door.
We taught the whole school what a few coins can do.
A little change from your chores can help kids just like you.”
our impact
Since our founding in 2006, thousands of elementary, middle, high school and college students across the US have raised well over a half a million dollars for the construction of schools in rural Uganda, have developed a strong connection to their global community and have gained an understanding of the privileges and opportunities we so often take for granted.
our success
As of February 2012, Building Tomorrow has eight open academies, two nearing completion and an additional three currently under construction. Each academy has seven classrooms, an office, a library, meeting space and a large field; all in all providing learning space for 325 students.
our future
As part of the Clinton Global Initiative, in September 2011 Building Tomorrow made a public commitment to increase access to quality education for tens of thousands of school-going age children throughout East Africa over the next five years. Through this commitment, we will leverage the philanthropic power of U.S. universities to construct at least 60 community-built, stakeholder-sustained Building Tomorrow academies, and further develop the teaching capacity of at least 450 rural based teachers.
