With your generous donations from last year, in March of this year, we were able to drill a borehole water well on the campus of a high school in northern Uganda. The students at Gulu College now have clean water to drink. The borehole was drilled to the aquifer and water is now piped to the surface in a sealed
During the first part of this academic year, students at Clarke University in Dubuque, Iowa, worked to raise money for the water well at Gulu College. The Clarke students participated in ‘Africa Week’ activities, and several clubs on campus organized fund-raisers during the academic year. On March 13th, the Executive Director of Quench and Connect, Dr. Kathryn Ely, was invited
This year Quench and Connect received a $1000 gift from the Rotary Club of Coronado. Rotary Club is an international organization of business and professional leaders that provides humanitarian service throughout the world. The Coronado chapter, led by President Steven Haley, has 230 members who volunteer their time to community service. The gift will be used to help us build
At High Tech Media Arts middle school in San Diego, sixth grade students learned about the work Quench and Connect is doing for schools in Uganda school and wanted to help. Inspired by their ‘global-thinking’ teacher, Mr. Kyle Wagner, these students sponsored a movie night at school, and collected money for admission and treats. It was a fun night for
Quench and Connect is working to provide the tools for effective science teaching to the Gayaza school. This year, Quench and Connect partnered with University City High School in San Diego in a project-based learning format that involved U.S. students in an international project: to equip science teaching labs at the school in Gayaza. “Project Lead the Way’ is an
Students in the Social Action Club at Muirlands Middle School in La Jolla CA collected many, many items for the students at the Gayaza school, and had a great learning experience about life in Uganda. Led by their energetic teacher/mentor Ms. Susan Minnicks, these middle school students worked on a year-long project to get donations from their fellow students of