Building Tomorrow’s Founder & Chief Dreamer, George Srour, shared with us what he considers to be his “moment of obligation” – the point at which he knew he had to do something to improve learning environments and access to education for students in Uganda.

As we exited the school, one of the school’s leaders mentioned the amount it would take to properly rebuild the structure, negating the need for parents to come board up the walls twice a year to slow the termite damage.
$10,000.
I did the math. If I returned to school and asked every student at William & Mary to give $1.81, we could give hundreds of kids the chance to learn in a proper, well-constructed building.
$1.81. One dollar and eighty-one cents.
Meeting Point Kampala’s new school building opened nearly three years after that visit. Seven years and over $1.4 million dollars later, that calculation of obligation and the power of any size a contribution remains at the heart of Building Tomorrow’s work both in the United States and in Uganda.
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