Did you know only 4 out of every 10 of children in Africa get to go to secondary school?
Imagine yourself as a 12 year old again, but living in a very small rural village. You want an education…but quite simply there aren’t enough schools.
If there is a place for you, your nearest school will be around 15 miles away. There’s no transport and you can’t afford a bike, so you’ll have to walk. Even then, you’re desperately needed at home to collect firewood, to cook, to work in the fields to grow food for your family.
Plus you will have to walk more than a mile a day just to collect water…that may or may not be drinkable. Unfair isn’t it…
We believe that education is essential to overcoming poverty. And that’s why we’ve decided that Ogilvy Group UK should do something to really help.
In 2009, Ogilvy Group UK started working in partnership with International Needs (Registered Charity No 1010597 – www.ineeds.org.uk) in a project called Many Ogilvy Hands. This project has a mission to build a secondary school in the village of Buikwe in Uganda to provide education for around 450 young people. There is a lot to be done but we believe that many hands make light work.
3 times a year we send 10 employees out to Uganda for a week to help with building. Our 5 year plan is to build:
- * 12 classrooms
- * A kitchen
- * A dining hall
- * A library
- * A laboratory
- * 8 staff houses and dorms for the boys and girls
And to provide the site with electricity, desks, textbooks, laboratory equipment and a very large water tank.
Follow our progress here: www.manyogilvyhands.com
