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June 24, 2009: Published and linked to Alice Bator's Girls Support Program website.

June 15, 2009: Linked to Uganda Summer 2009 Blogs: Kasiisi OLPC, Weston HS Students, Alice Bator, Katya Wheelwright.

April 20, 2009: Students win One Laptop Per Child internship grant for Kasiisi Schools!

March 8, 2009: Created a new interactive Google map for the environs of Kasiisi School.
February 22, 2009: Posted photos of new 2009 scholars.
February 4, 2009: Published a new 3-minute HD video introduction to the Project on YouTube and the website.
January 19, 2009: Our first television ad aired on NESN's Beanpot hockey broadcast, 4-5 PM, Monday, January 19.

December 30, 2008: Enabled donations through PayPal directly to Kasiisi Project.
November 30, 2008: The Kasiisi Project has partnered with Barefoot Books! See the link above.
October 24, 2008: Welcome Weston 2008 links - 11 Weston educators visited Kasiisi in June-July 2008.
September 27, 2008: Scholarship sponsorship brochure for 2008 is now available for download (MS Word, 40k).
September 15, 2008: Posted the preliminary Kasiisi Project Annual Report for 2007-2008 (MS Word, 2.4 mb download).
July 18, 2008: Posted photos of 2008 Kasiisi/AFROKAPS scholars.
March 29, 2008: Added the first Rutooro language interactive study lesson, on greetings.
February 20, 2008: Kasiisi students get their first taste of banana porridge from the Kasiisi Porridge Project UK.

December 6, 2007: The Kasiisi Porridge Project UK opens its new web site.
July 30, 2007: Richard Wrangham is quoted several times in this chatty New Yorker magazine article on bonobos.
June 9, 2007: Here is John Kasenene's farewell letter from the April-May Weston Welcome, Uganda! exchange visit.
May 20, 2007: Posted departure photos from the Welcome Uganda! educator exchange visit that ended May 13.
April 8, 2007: Published photos of the Kasiisi Project's new secondary-school scholarship students for 2007.
April 4, 2007: Placed the Welcome Uganda! visitor schedule on the Weston-Kasiisi home page.
March 28, 2007: Published the "Africa March 2007 - Uganda" playlist featuring all Ugandan popular music.
January 23, 2007: Added numerous new links mostly from Brooks Goddard of TEAA.
January 13, 2007: Added list of contributing organisations to the Kasiisi Porridge Project.

December 10, 2006: Linked to the UNITE project in North Carolina and their short movie about basket making near Kasiisi.
December 2, 2006: Craft sales in the Boston MA area this weekend and next weekend!
November 26, 2006: New page of photos from Kasiisi and Kanyawara in July 2006.
November 14, 2006: New Welcome Uganda! pages for the upcoming Ugandan educators visit to Weston MA in 2007.
November 13, 2006: Added new playlists for September, October and November.

November 20, 2005: The Kasiisi Project website went online.