Our mission :: VIsion :: values

Involving to Evolve.

Mission

One Sun Foundation fosters self-sustainability in underserved communities through community resource centers, literacy enhancement, educational sponsorship, library establishment, community engagement, and personal empowerment.

We seek to involve them as individuals so they can empower their communities...Involving to Evolve.

Vision

Currently, OneSun Foundation is working in one community in Uganda. But the need is systemic and country-wide.

We aim to provide children in underserved communities with access to quality education to unlock their potential and foster community development. The need is great, but our vision is greater!

values

Serving as the hands and feet of Jesus, we support those around us regardless of their faith.

We believe in the transformative power of education and numeracy/literacy development and its ability to unlock the potential of every person.

We believe in creating self-sustainability by providing knowledge and community engagement.

Herbert Ntambi
Executive Director, OneSun Uganda

Munno volunteer, Haryet , reading in English to a small group of our Munno participants

Our Team

Herbert Ntambi

Executive Director

OneSun Foundation Limited, Uganda

herbert.ntambi@onesunfoundation.org

Kristen Benton

Executive Director

OneSun Foundation USA, Inc.

kristen.benton@onesunfoundation.org

Our Board of Directors

Allen Benton

Business Developer/Owner USA

Justin Mucheri

NGO Consultant, East Africa

Kalitani Tina Nasasira

Lawyer, Uganda

Kisembo Gilbert

M & E Officer, Uganda

Kagayi Peter

Author/Poet, Uganda

Mugyenyi Patrick

Board Member, Uganda

Lindah Kisembo

Executive Team, Uganda

Our Management Team

Uganda & USA

Patricia Sharon

Executive Team, Uganda

Derrick Mukasa MacAllen

Muuno Coordinator, Uganda

Hakim Ssentamu

Director of Programming, Uganda

OUR STORY

With close to 60% of the population of Uganda below 18 years of age, and over 75% below the age of 35 years, Uganda is a country of children and young adults. Clearly, children’s cognitive development represents Uganda’s greatest natural resource. Moreover, Uganda’s future remains highly contingent upon our collective ability to safeguard children’s right to contribute to national development.

Uganda, like many sub-Saharan African countries, faces major challenges in providing quality and accessible basic education to children. One out of every 10 children between 3 and 5 years of age is enrolled in pre-primary education. Attendance at the primary level has grown due to a universal primary education policy launched in 1997, but the quality of teaching and learning needs significant improvement. Teacher absenteeism is high in Uganda, with more than 60 percent of teachers not in the classroom teaching in over half of all Ugandan public schools. Most children do not complete their schooling nor have the competencies needed to do well in life. Only 1 in 4 children who start primary school makes it to secondary school. Less than half (40 percent) of students are literate at the end of primary school.

OneSun Foundation was developed to counteract these statistics and find a way to make literacy and quality education a priority and a possibility for every child who desires it. We have formed a tireless and committed group of volunteers that is growing daily. We have also surrounded ourselves with a strong group of mentors, leaders, and sponsors who are helping us empower the next generation of leaders. Our programs are so engaging no one is left behind. Instead, we are living into the motto of the OneSun Foundation and we are “involving to evolve.”