The Mental Health Benefits of Extracurricular Sports For Kids

For many parents, it’s easy to see the physical benefits that children can gain from playing sports. Yet athleticism also supports children’s mental health and cognitive development in surprisingly impactful ways. Here are just a few of…

The Physical Benefits of Extracurricular Sports for Kids

Many parents think of extracurricular activities like organized sports as a simple leisure (or even luxury) activity for their children. In reality, the benefits of sports for youth offer surprisingly varied and far-reaching physical health…

The Primary School System in Uganda

Americans are familiar with a grade school structure consisting of preschool or pre-K education, elementary school, middle or junior high school, and high school. Grade school systems elsewhere in the world may have a similar structure, but…

Key Traits of High-Quality Schools in Uganda

All conscientious parents want their children to attend good schools. When they have the opportunity to choose where their child completes primary or secondary education—as is the case in Uganda—a little parental homework can go a long way…

Things To Know About the Wet Seasons in Uganda

Many Americans are accustomed to having four seasons in the year, and plenty of us look forward to spring for relief from harsh winter weather. However, in tropical countries near the equator—like Indonesia, Brazil, and Uganda—there are…

The Crises That Orphaned Ugandans in the 1980s and 1990s

Although many Americans have heard little about it, the 1980s and 1990s in Uganda were devastating periods in the country’s history, which has lasting effects today. They were marked by a combination of crises that left millions of children…

The Importance of Clean Water Access for Ugandan Children

Having readily available clean water for drinking and hygiene is essential for the health and well-being of people in any community. But whereas residents of wealthy nations typically have only to turn on a tap to use this resource, there are…

Things To Know About Accelerated Learning in Uganda

In January 2022, Ugandan schools reopened after over a year and a half, the longest lockdown in the entire world. It soon became evident that, as had been the case after lockdowns even in wealthy nations, students had fallen behind in their…

STEM Education Measures in Uganda

Although you’re doubtless familiar with the new emphasis on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education in US schools and youth programming, you might be wondering how other countries are faring in this regard. Unsurprisingly,…

Why Education Lights the Way for Brighter Ugandan Futures

In the Christmas Nativity story, some distinguished men—likely astrologists or astronomers—traveled for miles using the light of a “star” (later known as the Star of Bethlehem or the Christmas star) to locate the infant savior Jesus…

Why Supporting Ugandan Schools Is the Best Holiday Deal

Each winter, Americans search for the best holiday deals on Christmas gifts like tech toys, appliances, and household goods. Yet education is the best gift you can give in Uganda, whose rates of secondary school completion were just 62% in 2018…

Give the Gift of School Supplies to Ugandan Students

Giving Tuesday was created in 2012 to offer philanthropic balance to the consumerist American tradition of Black Friday, which kicks off the holiday shopping season. If you participate in this tradition of giving, congratulations: you are making…

Share Your Feast with Ugandans This Thanksgiving

Every year, on the fourth Thursday in November, Americans everywhere gather to share plentiful and even extravagant feasts with friends and family. Afterward, people loosen their belts and resolve to undo the damage of saturated fats, sugars,…

The Muslim-Christian Conflict in Uganda

In many countries, religious conflicts are almost inseparable from complex political ones; religious conflict in Africa is no exception, and Uganda is a major example of this. Christianity is the dominant religion in Uganda, with 82% of citizens…

Mental Health in Ugandan Civil War Survivors

The nation of Uganda has endured various violent political conflicts since it became independent from the UK in 1962. The longest of these was the Ugandan Bush War in Northern Uganda, also called the Ugandan Civil War and the Luwero War. Today,…

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