Collaborations
Misty Fjord Seafood Supports One School at a Time with the Sale of Salmon
Fran Kaul, fisherwoman and owner of Misty Fjord Seafood, generously donates to One School at a Time her profits from salmon sales in Laramie, Wyoming. These salmon lovers not only buy a delicious meal, but they help support our programs to improve Ugandan schools. Who could imagine how a salmon caught in Alaska could be connected to children in rural Uganda, Africa? Well, these two things are connected now!
Bead for Life Supports Our Programs with New Partner School
 Bead For Life (beadforlife.org), another non-profit working in Uganda, has generously granted funds to One School at a Time to develop programs at Kukanga Government Primary School.
Programs include:
- farm and school lunch
- 168 mango tree cultivation- cash crop
- supplies for menstruating girls
- rain water collection system, cistern and treadle pump
- classroom renovations
- solar phone charging station
One School and Sustainable Ugandan Technology -
Dr. Musaazi and Technology for Tomorrow
Dr. Musaazi
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Dr. Musaazi is an engineering professor at Makerere University in Kampala and the founder of Technology for Tomorrow. Dr. Musaazi and his team have developed innovative solutions to some of Africa’s most basic and pressing problems: sanitation, clean water, health, and environmental degradation.
Acknowledging that trying to radically change the behavior of African people is ineffective, Dr. Musaazi has developed new technologies and devices that work with already established habits and customs. All of these technologies, when installed in schools, can greatly benefit children.
For example, he has created an affordable sanitary pad, MakaPads, made of papyrus and paper waste. Girls frequently drop out of school when they start menstruating because their parents can not afford to provide them with sanitary pads. Dr. Musaazi has implemented cost-effective programs in schools where the girls themselves build the pads from materials he supplies.
Making Maka Pads
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Deforestation is a serious problem in Uganda. Wood is used exclusively for burning bricks and for cooking. To address this issue, Dr. Musaazi has developed an interlocking soil brick which requires no firing and is stronger than burnt bricks . Schools that use this brick press can build their bricks on site without a single tree needing to be cut down to fire the brick kiln!
Other T4T technologies that can be used in schools are water filtration systems, rainwater harvesting systems, solid waste incinerator (to eliminate dangerous trash piles), fuel-efficient cooking stoves, and low cost lighting.
One School at a Time plans to fund programs to integrate Dr. Musaazi’s technologies at all of our partner schools.
University of Maryland Students Assist One School Build Classrooms
Hawk Children's Fund
Students in Hotel and Restaurant Management at University of Maryland (UMES) have formed their own nonprofit, Hawk Children's Fund. In 2009, they raised over $8,000 for the construction of a classroom buildingand a water-collection system for Kyamulinga Primary School.
Students hosted luncheons and parties and created a "buy a brick" campaign and other events to promote their cause. They watched with interest and pride as Kyamulinga classrooms were built brick by brick.
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