Creating a Gender Balanced World

Africa ELI recently attended a dinner sponsored by the African Women and Girls Organization (AWGO) in Kampala, Uganda. The dinner was a red-carpet event launching a series of public forums on women’s issues organized by AWGO. It was attended by 150 community...

Springing Forward

2019 is a significant year for Africa ELI. May 19th of this year begins our second decade of providing South Sudanese girls with access to secondary education. 2019 is also significant because it marks our third full year of operations in Uganda since the extraction...

The Opportunity of a First Day of School

The following was written by Tami Carsillo, Africa ELI Board President, during her recent trip to Uganda. We can all remember the excitement and nervousness of the first day of  a new school year. We made sure we had the proper uniform or clothing. We carefully...

Tastes Like Chicken

Visitation Day is an important monthly event for boarding school students. Teachers and school administrators meet with the students’ parents or guardians to review the academic performance and activities of individual students. A school bursar provides an accounting...