The Kasiisi Project · Elizabeth Ross, Founder & Director · 64 Linnaean Street · Cambridge MA 01238 · USA · +1.617.493.5775
To date, the building program has been the largest activity of the project, consuming most of the funds raised over the years. Repaired and new schoolrooms attract good teachers and provide the best possible learning environment for students.
Kasiisi Primary School now ranks first among 46 primary schools in Ruteete sub-county. Nearby Kanyawara Primary School has been brought from no buildings at all, from holding all classes outdoors under a tree, to five classroom buildings. These primary schools and the three others with which we work - Kiko, Kigarama and Rweteera - all now have sturdy, functioning latrines. New housing for teacher staff was completed in 2008. Construction began in 2008 on a new pre-school through Chris Thurston's funding efforts (left). Rweteera Primary School, to the south of Kasiisi, is undergoing major renovation during 2009 and onward.
In 2009 a new kitchen building (left, next to bottom) for the Kasiisi Porridge Project was completed and went into daily use. Extensive dormitories (bottom left) are being built at Kasiisi School for use by students starting in 2010. There has been enormous progress.
But much remains to be done. We are working now on bringing electricity to Kasiisi School, on building library and computer room space in all of five schools, and we continue to refurbish decaying older buildings at all five schools.
