supported by The University of Notre Dame

The Building Tomorrow Academy of Sentigi, supported by the student chapter of BT at the University of Notre Dame, is located in the Wakiso District of Uganda.

In the early spring of 2009, when BT first visited the community of Sentigi to discuss the possibility of opening the community’s first-ever permanent school building, Gerald Kasibante, a council elder in Sentigi, pledged his full support.

“I will give the land. When do we start?”

Little did Mr. Kasibante know that students at Notre Dame had already started. During the 2007-08 academic year alone, hundreds of students at the University of Notre Dame helped to raise over $40,000 to support what is now known as the BT Academy of Sentigi. At full capacity, the Academy will provide 325 kids with the opportunity to learn inside a classroom-an opportunity Mr. Kasibante never had.

Construction on the Academy began on April 6, 2009 and was completed in October 2010.