Kasiisi Project Updates
HPV Vaccinations for Kasiisi Project Girls
Human papilloma virus (HPV) is a preventable cause of cervical cancer for which there is a vaccine. Vaccinations against HPV are of particular importance for rural girls, few of whom ever get cervical cancer screening. The vaccine is free and available … Continue reading
New Kasiisi Project Schools, summer interns and staff training
It has been a long busy summer since our last post. We added 2 new schools bringing the total to 16 schools, serving 11,500 children … Continue reading
Kasiisi Project Guesthouse Website Goes Live
The Kasiisi Project Guesthouse Website has gone live. Please log in to www.kasisiguesthouse.com to see our rooms, our facilities, and testimonials from guests. And take a look at the ways we can provide you with a deeper connection to Uganda … Continue reading
Two 3 month Volunteers Needed
We are looking for 2 self-funded 3 month volunteers for either approximately September – December 2018 or March – May 2019. We can provide a return airfare from the US, accommodation and work related transport, telephone and internet costs , … Continue reading
Kasiisi Catch Up – Spring 2018
Apologies for our lapse in BLOG posts – A very busy first quarter and some software issues are our excuses. Below is a summary of what we have been up to since the start of the year. New Kasiisi Project … Continue reading
Kasiisi Project Activities in Action – watch our new videos
Click here-Improved Cookstove Project and here-Bee Education Project to see 2 brief new videos highlighting conservation education programs and showing our children involved in promoting the importance of cleaner burning cook-stoves, and bees to the environment. Thanks to Corey Dickinson, … Continue reading
Global Giving Matches Donations to Kasiisi Girls’ Programs
If you start a new monthly donation here to the Kasiisi Project girl’s program on Global Giving, your first donation will be matched. “Sanitary pads keep Ugandan girls in school” was selected as a GlobalGiving Project of the Month due … Continue reading
Goodhart Prize Honors Girls and the Sciences
In June, two young Ugandan women from Fort Portal Schools, both raised by single mothers, were honored for being the best female students in Mathematics and Science in Kabarole District. They were the first recipients of what will become the … Continue reading
Memorial Prize in Honor of Kasiisi Scholar
We are heartbroken to announce the death of Kyomuhendo James, Kasiisi Scholar and final year medical student. James, the son of Kibale Forest Schools Program board member , Kagaba Joshua, was smart, hardworking and truly nice. Despite increasingly poor health … Continue reading
Kasiisi Project Safari to Uganda
AFRICAN GENESIS – APES, HUMANS AND WHERE WE COME FROM For January 2019 we have put together a once in a lifetime trip to Uganda. Join us on this small exclusive expedition with two pioneers of contemporary evolutionary thinking, Harvard … Continue reading
