HOW WE WORK

One School at a Time works with Ugandans to develop well-managed, self-reliant, sustainable schools where children not only survive, but thrive.

"Go to the people. Learn from them... Start with what they know. Build with what they have. ...when the job is done, the people will all say we have done it ourselves." Lao Tzu

One School at a Time provides targeted Ugandan schools with technical support and capacity building through our Ugandan Program Manager. We link schools to already existing programs that may benefit them, and we provide capital improvements using environmentally sustainable solutions.

We focus on the whole school: governance, security, strategic long term planning, financial management, community and parent involvement, teacher development and sustainable infrastructure development.

One School at a Time Promotes Cultural Awareness for Colorado Youth. It’s the day-to-day details that really hit home for Kierra Peterson, a junior at Watershed School in Boulder. "I guess I already realized that people were starving and there are so many inequalities in the world,” she says. But those facts sometimes seemed so far removed from everyday life. Hearing how girls had to miss school because they lacked feminine products, or how they trekked daily through violent slums or polluted swamps to fetch water, was different altogether. “Just the little things like the water,” she said. “Here I am, and I wake up every day and turn on the sink—fresh water right after I get out of bed"

OUR VISION:

One School at a Time is a catalyst, a partner and an advocate for school programs in the Mubende District of Uganda. The organization will help support a network of high-functioning schools in this area by 2015. One School at a Time partners with one community-based school at a time, and is focused on the quality of its outcomes, not on the quantity of schools that it reaches. The organization intends to be an effective public school model for the Ugandan District of Education into the future.

GUIDING PRINCIPLES:

One School at a Time follows guiding principles to ensure that each Ugandan school project is poised for enduring, sustainable success. The organization seeks to ensure that it has the best foundation, people, and support available to aid each school partner. To that end, One School at a Time partnerships are based on: