Affordable Sanitary Pads for 1500 Ugandan Girls

Hi Donors!  Amazing News: This past year, the top three performing students at the Kasiisi schools were GIRLS. It's so wonderful to see the gap between girls' and boys' results narrowing so rapidly. The younger girls have role models that show that girls can be truly successful. Quick update on myself: In...

As promised, an exciting new update... WE ARE BUILDING DORMS at Kasiisi Primary School for 50 girls. Its really important that we succeed in creating a safe place for girls after school to significantly reduce the sexual overtures on the long walk home from school in the dark. We've made great progress on the construction...

Thanks again for your continued support. Its amazing how quickly the Girls Program has been able to scale thanks to your generous donations. Please find November's update attached in a PDF file. Also... keep an eye out for next month's update! We'll be sharing some exciting news about the scale of the peer education...

Happy September! I thought you all would love to see a few examples of notes that some girls wrote to Nurse Lucy. They absolutely adore her and its been amazing to hear how much they trust her. Thank you again for your continued support.

Thank you & Congratulations... We hit the $100,000! What I find so amazing about this number is that it was not 10 $10,000 donations but rather, to reach $100,000, there were 2,329 unique donations. This means that the average size of donation was $42.00, and the most frequently donated amount was $30. This...

Hello Wonderful Donors!! I have two big updates. 1) The results for 2010 PLE have come in! There is no difference in results between boys and girls at the Kasiisi Project schools. The average for all schools is Boys 20.6 and the girls 20.8 The eight other schools that are included in our Conservation Education...

Hi Everyone! Hope the weather is as wonderfully "spring-y" as it is here in Nashville. Here for some fun updates: Watch the new video in Rutooro (subtitled in English) about hand-washing for children at Kasiisi schools (made by Abigail Schoenberg and Koojo Mathew): http://vimeo.com/20228016 Check out...

Hello! Hope all is well.  Last week I had the opportunity to attend a luncheon sponsored by the Planned Parenthood of Fort Worth, TX to hear Sheryl WuDunn speak about the the book she co-authored with her husband, Nicholas Kristof, Half The Sky. Now for those of you that do not know......

Are you interested in seeing, first hand, our work with girls in Uganda? Have you always wanted to see great apes in the wild? This June - we have a great donor trip lined up! The Kasiisi Project along with its research partner The Kibale Chimpanzee Project are offering a small exclusive guided trip to Uganda. We will host...

Happy Holidays!  Thank you for your continued support! Kasiisi Girls Support Program is ever thankful and is continuing to put your money to great use! Each gift makes a huge difference to the girls, and therefore, the entire community in the around the Kibale Forrest in Uganda. Girl friendly latrines, access to...

Executive Director, Elizabeth Ross, has just posted to the Kasiisi Project blog about the progress of the Girls Support Program. Please visit: http://kasiisiproject.blogspot.com/ Nurse Lucy continues to visit the schools regularly and provide MakaPads for the girls each month. When she's at the schools she...

Sorry for the back to back updates, but I though you would all enjoy seeing this video of Nurse Lucy as she teaches. Thanks again so much for the continued support! Please, as always feel free to leave comments/suggestions.

Hi Donors! September is proving to be an exciting month for all areas of the Kasiisi Girls' Support Program! - A few days ago the FIRST EVER delivery of MakaPads arrived to the Kasiisi schools in place of the imported pads (I'll attach a photo as soon as I have one). -In about a week, a few Kasiisi Project...

Dear wonderful donors, I have great news for you! This update will focus on our progress with the MakaPad initiative but be on the lookout for another update coming soon on the health outreach program! I returned from a trip to Uganda a few weeks ago with another volunteer, Scott Krenitski. Together we worked with...

Hello again donors! Thanks again so much for your continued support. Check out Elizabeth Ross' new blog entry at http://kasiisiproject.blogspot.com/2010/06/girls-peer-education-program-success.html to read about the success of the girls peer education program this year. Its wonderful to see how successful the program...

Thank you thank you thank you! I can say of behalf of Kasiisi Project, that we could not be more excited (or wonderfully surprised) to have reached one year on GlobalGiving and to have raised over $64,000 from almost 1,500 unique donors! This year has been quite remarkable for the progress of the Kasiisi Project's Girls...

Hey Everyone, Thanks as always for your generous donations. I wanted to update everyone on an new "Kasiisi Project Blog". This blog updates about all programs of Kasiisi Project (not just the Girls' Support Program) and is a valuable way to stay up to date with the happenings of the overall organization! Check it out!...

International Women's Day is March 8, and to celebrate women in Uganda, we wanted to tell you about all the great work we've been doing at Kasiisi Project Girls Support Program. Here is an excerpt from a meeting on January 20th: "Assessment of current KFSSSP Health and Girl’s support programs. The new project...

Check out the Annual Report for Kasiisi Project International!

Happy New Years from the Kasiisi Project Girls Support Program! Elizabeth Ross is in Uganda starting next week and we should have some photos as soon as she returns. We are purchasing five new Girls' Only Latrines (at $5,000 each). The privacy of single sex latrines is very important for girls to feel comfortable at...

Happy New Years from the Kasiisi Project Girls Support Program! Elizabeth Ross is in Uganda starting next week and we should have some photos as soon as she returns. We are purchasing five new Girls' Only Latrines (at $5,000 each). The privacy of single sex latrines is very important for girls to feel comfortable at...

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Kasiisi Project Girls Support Program is incredibly thankful for your continued support of girls in the Kabarole District of Uganda. Such enthusiastic support is allowing progress to be made at a wonderful rate. From Uganda: We've just received results from a survey regarding MakaPads...

Thank you so much for all of your continued support. It has been exciting to have Kasiisi Girls Support Project recognized by Oprah on her new registry: for all women. Next month continues to be exciting as Dr. Moses Kissa Musaazi (MakaPad inventor) is coming to the United States for a conference on technology in DC....

Hi Everyone! Thank you for your continued support. Sarah and I just got back from a six week trip to Uganda. “We spent the first four weeks in Kampala, Uganda. During this time we worked with the director of Technology 4 Tomorrow, Dr. Moses Musaazi, a professor and inventor at Makerere University. It is Dr....

Lots of new updates... *** Check out the attached report from this summer's work *** Here's a sample of some of the questions girls asked me during small group meetings. The girls in P5 – P 7 (4th grade – 6th grade) asked a ton of really valuable questions. Some were alarmingly false (the first one for...

Hi Everyone! Thanks again for all of your continued support! Sarah Quirk and I take off for Uganda this Saturday, and wanted to update you on a few quick things before we head off. **** Please Check out the newly updated website:...

Hello everyone! Lots of good news... First I want to thank you thank you thank you (webale muno, muno, muno) from the girls of Kasiisi Project for contributing to "Affordable Sanitary Pads for 1500 Ugandan Girls" during the recent challenge. As a result of your contributions, we can came in 1st place for number of...