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.”