Originally posted by Lucy Reser on April 28, 2013 on the Wofford College Blog
Through my interviews and experiences in all three countries I have learned [...]
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April 28, 2013 | No Comments
Help Others Through Education
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August 15, 2012 | No Comments
Meet Allen
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Last but certainly not least, we bring to you the final student in our “10 People You Need to Know” series. We hope you’ve enjoyed [...]
August 10, 2012 | No Comments
Meet Medie
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With the Olympics in full spring, it only seems appropriate to introduce Medie. When it comes to this sporting event, everyone tunes in. It’s not [...]
August 1, 2012 | No Comments
Meet Justine
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“I want to be a nurse,” said Justine.
Think of the nurses you know, friends, family members, or the lady who recently gave you a shot. [...]
July 25, 2012 | No Comments
Meet Moses
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Sweet.
That’s all I can think about when it comes to Moses. Now the word sweet can mean many things. I don’t mean sweet like, ‘Dude [...]
July 19, 2012 | No Comments
Meet Ritah
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Sometimes when the word education is used, things like books, homework, lessons and exams are what come to mind. It’s so much more than that. [...]
July 13, 2012 | No Comments
Meet Paul
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GOALLLLL!!
Ahh that magical moment when the soccer team you’re cheering for finally scores. Joy, overwhelming joy is what this moment is. Most of the time [...]
July 4, 2012 | No Comments
Meet Agnes
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1862 – Abbe Giovanna Caselli becomes the first person to transmit a still image over wires
1900 – Constantin Perskyi used the word “television” for the [...]
June 28, 2012 | No Comments
Meet Ronald
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As the summer has officially begun, many people use this season to take a little time to travel. College students are in London studying and [...]
June 25, 2012 | No Comments
A Student’s Dream: Class...
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In the U.S. when our teachers decide to take class outside for the day, smiles and excited faces are the usual response. For Aisha it’s [...]
June 20, 2012 | No Comments
Meet Elizebeth, aka ‘...
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Being a college student about to embark on my Senior year, I get asked this question all the time, ‘What are you going to do?’ [...]
June 15, 2012 | No Comments
Cutie-pa-tutti
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As much as this adorable future BT student loved to smile, he wasn’t much for talking. What he did tell us is that his name [...]
June 13, 2012 | No Comments
10 People You Need To Know
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Many of you may be wondering who these children are that attend the Building Tomorrow Academies. Well you’re gonna find out! Our employee Maggie sat [...]
February 22, 2012 | No Comments
Organization raising money to...
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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: [...]
February 17, 2012 | 1 Comment
Patrick
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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 [...]
December 9, 2011 | No Comments
Hip-Hop & Engineers
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They say smiles are contagious but the students I met at Lutisi brought that statement to a new level. I couldn’t help but smile, no [...]
November 9, 2011 | No Comments
Small Towns, Big Hearts
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A small high school in a small town in Washington State has teamed up with One Day’s Wages in an effort to fund the construction [...]
November 1, 2011 | No Comments
Five Years of Building...
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We celebrated our 5th birthday with a full house at the ArtsGarden in downtown Indianapolis last Friday and it was a HUGE success. We couldn’t [...]
October 19, 2011 | No Comments
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 | No Comments
You’ve met George…...
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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 | No Comments
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 3, 2011 | 1 Comment
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 [...]
September 30, 2011 | No Comments
Party Time at Hope College
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Here’s some creative fundraising for you: in addition to selling bricks through Building Tomorrow’s OneBrick Campaign, students at Hope College in Holland, Michigan organized a [...]
September 28, 2011 | 2 Comments
Proud.
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About a year ago, Building Tomorrow teamed up with the Jukes Foundation for Kids to provide ten scholarships for students to continue their studies following [...]
September 19, 2011 | No Comments
University of Notre Dame...
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Original article in University of Notre Dame School of Architecture Newsletter, September 19, 2011
Building Tomorrow is one of the newest student groups at the School [...]
filed under: News — Tags: architecture, design, kyeitabya, notre dame, sentigi, students, usa — admin @ 10:44 am
September 16, 2011 | No Comments
Here We Go!
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Do you remember the day you realized, ‘wow, I’m a big kid now?’
That’s the feeling coming over us all right now in the Building Tomorrow [...]
September 8, 2011 | No Comments
BT Featured in The Daily Texan
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The UT chapter of Building Tomorrow hosted a lecture this past Wednesday by the organization’s founder, George Srour.
August 25, 2011 | No Comments
What’s in your backpack?
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Students across the country are headed back to school this week. And even if you don’t have kids or siblings of your own, it’s a [...]
August 23, 2011 | No Comments
If this is what 13 year-olds...
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Building Tomorrow is founded on the belief that young people are not only full of potential for the future but highly capable of doing great [...]
August 8, 2011 | 1 Comment
A Read-a-Thon for Education
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This summer we’ve made a point to tell the incredible stories of our BTers and what they’re doing to change the world. One such inspiring [...]
July 11, 2011 | No Comments
Meet Esther and Gertrude at...
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Over the past few weeks, we’ve shared many stories about our BT supporters in the United States. Everyone from elementary school sit-for-good participants to college [...]
July 6, 2011 | 1 Comment
Why Are You Building Tomorrow?
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How exactly do volunteers and donors differentiate one non-profit organization from the next? We wondered, too – so here are a few statements from our [...]
July 4, 2011 | No Comments
Random Opportunities for...
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BT supporters have come across our cause in more ways than we are even aware of, so it comes as no surprise when Ellie Chernosky [...]
June 24, 2011 | No Comments
James Wood High School
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We got an exciting letter in the mail on Monday from a young BT supporter. Emily Crawford, a Key Club student at James Wood High [...]
June 9, 2011 | No Comments
Today is Ugandan Heroes’...
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So we thought we’d take the time to recognize all of the incredible students and individuals who dedicate themselves to Building Tomorrow everyday. We often [...]
May 24, 2011 | No Comments
Why We Do What We Do – A...
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The number of charities and organizations representing various causes can be overwhelming. The search term “non-profit organizations” itself gets 38,800,000 hits on Google. So it’s [...]
May 19, 2011 | No Comments
YesKidzCan!
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Here at BT, we know a good thing when we see it. And YesKidzCan! is definitely a good thing. This organization supports social entrepreneurism and [...]
March 28, 2011 | No Comments
Getting involved is easier...
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As Building Tomorrow gets bigger and bigger, more people are joining this great cause. One of those many people is I, Tori Blum, the thirteen [...]
February 25, 2011 | No Comments
90 Percent.
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For four years we have shared with you some pretty exciting stories—new Building Tomorrow Academies getting built, students raising hundreds of thousands of dollars in [...]
December 13, 2010 | 1 Comment
Video of the week: Happy...
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Our school bells are ringing. All thanks to you.
Happy Holidays!
-the Building Tomorrow team
(thanks to Lauren Henson for the piano music!)
filed under: Videos — Tags: construction, Events, indianapolis, students, uganda, youth — admin @ 9:14 am
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Meet Sarah
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name Sarah Wanyana
age 7 years old (musanvu)
home Kyeitabya, Uganda (Kiboga District)
class P2
Sarah lives with her mother and two of her six older siblings. Unfortunately, Sarah’s [...]
October 25, 2010 | 1 Comment
Meet Kayima
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name Joseph Kayima (Kayima)
age 5 years old (tanno)
home Kyeitabya, Uganda (Kiboga District)
class starting P1 next year
Kayima is your typical 5-year old…all hugs one moment and [...]
September 13, 2010 | No Comments
Meet Paolo
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name. Paolo Ssekate
age. 8 years old (munana)
home. Kyeitabya, Uganda (Kiboga District)
class. P1
Paolo is all personality. It doesn’t hurt that he’s positively adorable, too but that’s [...]
August 24, 2010 | No Comments
Meet Shaloni
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Shaloni Nakayemba, age 9, lives in Kyeitabya with her mother and two of her six older siblings: Nasuna and Godfrey. To make a living, Shaloni’s [...]
