Educate! provides scholarships, close mentoring and focused leadership training to a small group of students in Kyangwali Refugee Settlement, Uganda empowering the Scholarship Students to solve the challenges facing their community.  The results are clear.  The Educate! Scholarship Students have directly impacted over 9,000 people, created $31,000 in value for their community, and developed innovative solutions to pressing challenges ranging from malaria, to poverty and lack of access to education.

Educate! Scholarship Students in Kyangwali Refugee Settlement, Uganda

The 22 Educate! Scholarship Students have built an orphanage for 40 vulnerable children in Kyangwali settlement, sent over 60 students to school, blanketed their community with 5,000 mosquito nets through Think Humanity – one net for each family in the settlement of 17,000 people, started a theater group of 50 youth members that educates the community about HIV/AIDS, counseled numerous members of their community, created an anti-violence group for 15 women refugees victim to physical and sexual violence in the Congo, inspired People Weaver to give 37 loans to women in Kyangwali enabling them to start small businesses and lift themselves and their families out of poverty, started an organization called COBURWAS of over 200 members that unites the refugees of different nationalities along the common purpose of bettering their community, directly impacted over 9,000 refugees, and created well over $31,000 in value for their community – the Educate! Scholarship Students have transformed Kyangwali Refugee Settlement.

A testament to the leadership of the Scholarship Students, Joseph Munyambanza, a remarkable young leader, was recently accepted to African Leadership Academy in South Africa, a world class institution more selective than Harvard.

Rachel Uwimana, Educate! Scholarship Student

Through close mentoring and leadership seminars, Educate! empowered a small group of students to transform a community of over 17,000 refugees that has suffered from poverty, extremely high malaria and AIDS rates, malnutrition, and ethnic conflict – something 10 international organizations in Kyangwali, including the United Nations, have failed to do for over fifty years simply because they did not empower the people themselves to create internally driven solutions.

The Educate! scholarship students inspired the Educate! Experience, Educate!’s new leadership and mentoring program.

Read about Educate!’s featured scholarship student, Benson Wereje, or learn more about all of Educate!’s 22 scholarship students by clicking on their names to the left.