Month: February 2017

Two months ago, Project UgandaSA was born with 10 students and one teacher advisor. We were all given the rigorous task of researching education issues in the world and found very severe educational problems in Uganda. One of our members knew a woman who ran an orphanage in Uganda. Her name is Penny Leon. Penny had a hard childhood. Her father wanted only boys but instead got six girls. He then told Penny that women were only meant to be pregnant and serve their husbands. He didn’t even believe in women’s education. But, her mother did. Penny then told us her mother even sent her to Kenya, so she could have an education. Eventually, Penny left Uganda and flew to the United States, not speaking very good English and looking for a job. Currently, Penny has an organization that builds schools in Uganda, called Florence for Youth and Action. Penny has shown us that education is really important and has started a fire, a passion,in our hearts. We are ready to help children in Uganda get proper education.

We are a group of advocates, on the issue of children in poverty around the world.  In Tucson, Arizona, the poverty rate has “leveled out at 24 percent over the past three years, posing potential long term effects,” according to the Arizona Sonora News.We recently visited Lake Los Angeles, which is the poorest spot in Los Angeles. We did a house visit with a three year old child, and watched a Save The Children worker help the child and mother bond. We also visited a school which educates children in that area. These children in poverty were all extremely excited to learn, and they were hungry for books. They would be as smart as us if they had to opportunity to learn. As a giving and kind person, the principal at the school gave each of us Barnes and Nobles gift cards, and we are taking them and buying books for the children. Another solution is to make homemade toys, that helps with their hand-eye coordination skills, and skills with numbers and letters. Soon, we will visit experts in these subjects in Washington D.C. to learn more about this problem. For more information about us, please visit our website that includes updates on what we are doing.

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KidUnity is pleased to again partner with Carlthorp School for our 2018  Civics In Action! Washington, D.C. service learning program.

Civics in Action! ­ Washington, D.C. is a unique program jointly developed with the Carlthorp School’s sixth grade service learning team. It situates service and public policy lessons directly in the community so that students will understand ­ through experiential learning ­ how to effect social and political change. The program culminates in a four day trip to Washington, D.C. where students will meet with and present to lawmakers, government officials, policy advocates/experts, and journalists. Throughout these sessions students will have the opportunity to play the role of both journalist and advocate to understand how these different disciplines can be used to solve social problems. The trip will emphasize the importance of thoughtful debate and productive civil discourse.

Our student policy teams are now busy preparing for their trip to the capitol where they will investigate, research, and advocate. They are conducting research and making field visits to social service agencies. Please follow their efforts in the blog entries below and on the KidUnity twitter feed –  @kidunity