Kasiisi Project Updates
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
Kasiisi Project and Broodminders – Every Hive Counts
The Kasiisi Project is the first and currently only program in Africa (that bee in the middle of the map is us!) to join Broodminders – the Citizen Science Project that seeks to monitor hive conditions all over the world. … Continue reading
Harvard Alumni Group Build Beehives at Kasiisi
Kasiisi Project board members Elizabeth Ross and Zarin Machanda led a Harvard Alumni trip to Uganda in June. The group spent a morning with the Kasiisi Project visiting the farm and Kasiisi Primary School and having lunch with teachers and … Continue reading
First Sustainable Water from Boreholes
Thanks to generous contributions from the Waterloo Foundation (UK) , Dry Creek Charity , and First Parish Church, Weston, Kiko Primary Schools’ children have a long future of plentiful, all year round, clean water from their own borehole. Currently schools … Continue reading
Kasiisi Project Awarded Disney Conservation Grant
We are delighted to announce that we have received another grant from the Disney Conservation Fund to extend and improve our school conservation education projects. This year our Wildlife Clubs members are “Climate Change Champions” focusing on all aspects of … Continue reading
Kasiisi Project Celebrates Earth Day, World Malaria Day and New Partnerships
Earth Day 350 students from all 14 Kasiisi Project/Kibale Forest Schools Program schools gathered together at Nyabweya Primary School to celebrate Earth Day. The students showcased their Wildlife Club Activities to each other, about 150 parents and representatives of local … Continue reading
