OPEN HANDS ACADEMY PROJECT

Our Mission is to improve the quality of basic education by increasing equitable access, quality, and sustainability of primary education that is inclusive and innovative.

Will You Join Us?

How Big Will Your Footprint Be?

Logo for the Amigos Internacionales school in Ogul Village, Open Hands Academy

Amigos Internacionales is looking forward to helping support and strengthen the disadvantaged children of the rural area of Ogul village, Uganda. We are building a Kindergarten/Early Childhood Development Center to enable them to access low-cost quality education.


Committed to fighting the effect of rising inflation on child education, Amigos is determined to leave no more children deprived of education just because they did not have potential resources. Our ultimate goal is to raise around $100,000 to buy a school in Gulu and expand it to include a secondary school and trade school opportunities so that these children can have enough resources to help build the desired life. We have purchased an additional 8 acres of cultivated land (including a Eucalyptus farm) to help provide economic lift projects for the impoverished community as well.


Expansion of the school to provide primary education to the learners will further improve the quality of basic education by increasing equitable access, quality, and sustainability of primary education that is inclusive and innovative . The expansion of the school to accommodate higher grades will lead to adolescent development as the older children will have access to information, life skills, and essential services, to reduce their vulnerability to HIV/AIDS, teenage pregnancy, violence, and poverty.


But we need your help!

Phase 1-2: Complete

  • Remodeling 95% complete
  • Functioning water well
  • Playground installation soon
  • School furnishings arriving every day
  • Groundskeeping (leveling, yards planted, shrubs at entrance)
  • Teaching staff is being interviewed and hired

Phase 03: Ready to Fund

$125,000

Secondary School

Projected Student Load: 120 Children

This block of classroom is critical for the community children of Ogul Village. The closest Secondary School for these children is over 8 kilometers away meaning few, if any, of these children will be able to make that journey and fewer still will finish their schooling.

fully designed building map of Open Hands Academy

Without completing their education, most of these children will be left to fend for themselves without a degree and unable to find good employment for their future families. This phase may be 3rd in priority for Amigos, however it is essential in providing quality, whole-child education and to give the children of Ogul Village and the surrounding community a chance for a better life.


Change a child's life today!

  Additional Projects- Currently Raising Funds

Water System- Toilets $8,000

As the school grows, the need for running water freely available for classrooms, the kitchen and bathroom facilities will be needed, as well. A solar powered pump into a storage tank will be the most efficient use of keeping the water available, even during the dry season. Your help is needed to make this happen.

Memorial Fountain- $2,500

The memorial fountain will be placed in the courtyard of our secondary building. Surrounding the fountain will be a seating area with memorial tiles honoring special people in the lives of our donors. These tiles will be purchased separately and engraved in Gulu with the names of those to be remembered.

Sports Field- $750

As we move into the primary and secondary school system, it will be necessary to provide adequate sports and physical education space for our students to be healthy and compete with other children in other schools. This field will provide adequate grass and markings to allow for expansion in this area.

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