When we visit St. Paul School in Nkokonjeru, Uganda, we stay with a long-time friend named Claire. This might be one of our favorite aspects of this work - sharing a home with a Ugandan family, dining together over a home-cooked meal each night, and falling asleep on cozy sleeping pads under mosquito nets.

The Lord's Resistance Army (a militant rebel group formed in 1987 by Joseph Kony) grew increasingly violent across Gulu and the surrounding communities through the 1990s. In 1996, the Ugandan government ordered all civilians in northern Uganda to relocate to Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps. At one time, an estimated two million people lived in those camps.

Long before the Mwebaza Foundation began, the family of Ms. Namatovu Catherine built Mwebaza Infant Primary School on their land in Kyengera, Uganda. Namatovu and her staff were exceptionally dedicated to the well-being of their students and sought to provide an education that broadened their students' worldview through cross-cultural exchange.

A social enterprise is a mission-driven business that applies commercial strategies to maximize improvements in social, environmental, or cultural well-being rather than focusing solely on maximizing profits for shareholders. These organizations sell goods or services, are financially sustainable, and reinvest the majority of their profits back into their core social or environmental mission.