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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 Scholar graduates from Harvard
When Kasiisi Scholar Akandwanaho Dominic, majoring in neurobiology graduated last week from Harvard College he became the 9th Kasiisi Scholar to graduate from University and the first from an overseas institution. Thanks to generous support from his sponsors Steven Oare, … Continue reading
Kasiisi Project Schools’ Best Year Yet
Kasiisi Primary School attained the second best score in the 2014 Primary Leaving Exams (PLE) for a government primary schools in the whole of Kabarole District with 76% of its students attaining Grade … Continue reading
Kasiisi Project and Conservation of Kibale National Park Videos
We have 2 videos linking the Kasiisi Project and conservation made by Ronan Donovan and Caroline Riss in 2014. The first one is new but you may have seen the second one before. We are posting it again in case … Continue reading
Dr. Zahura Adolf MBChB!!
The Kasiisi Project and the Kibale Forest Schools Programme are proud to announce that Zahura Adolf has become the first project scholar to become a doctor. Adolf took his Hippocratic Oath on Sunday and is about to begin his residency. Many … Continue reading
New Kasiisi Project Scholars for 2014
Thank you to everyone who is generously sponsoring one of our scholars in 2014 and especial thanks and a big welcome to those of you who are sponsoring a new brand new, just staring out in secondary school, scholar. This … Continue reading
Running for Education
Allison Rosenberg, Harvard graduate, Kasiisi Project Volunteer and Field Director for 6 months, will be running the DC Rock ‘n’ Roll Half Marathon on March 15, to support the Kasiisi Project Scholarship Program. Allison worked with the Kasiisi Project … Continue reading
The Kasiisi Project Scholarship Program
YOU CAN HELP US BREAK CYCLES OF POVERTY, EARLY MARRIAGE AND SPIRALING POPULATION GROWTH THROUGH THE GIFT OF EDUCATION. This is Irumbu Abel. As one of the 123 children who have qualified for a Kasiisi Project Scholarship since 1997, Abel … Continue reading
Kasiisi Scholar awarded Medical School Scholarship
Kasiisi Project Scholar Kyomuhendo James has been awarded one of the very few, highly competitive Ugandan Government scholarships to medical school. James, who won a place at Uganda’s top high school, Namugongo Secondary School for 11th and 12th Grade, scored … Continue reading
