Transforming education in rural Uganda through local vision
75% of kids in rural Uganda won’t pass 7th grade.
We’re helping kids & communities in rural Uganda break cycles of poverty through access to quality education.
Here’s how we’re doing it:
we connect schools and students, globally.
We connect students in Uganda to students in the USA and UK through our Schools for Schools program, which works to uplift the quality of education at our Sister Schools, and support community resources that impact kids.
we train teachers at our model school.
We are changing the landscape of education in rural Uganda through our demonstration school, Global Leaders, that serves as a Teacher Training hub for educators in Amolatar District.
we empower girls with Skills for Life.
Our Skills for Life program was designed specifically to help keep more girls in school. This program equips youth with important life skills that are otherwise not accessed in the classroom.
meet our founder
Collines Angwech was born & raised in Amolatar, Uganda during the height of the LRA War. To evade abduction by the Lord’s Resistance Army, Collines became a “night commuter”, leaving her home and boarding school every evening alongside her classmates to hide during raids. Despite the challenges she faced having grown up in a war-zone, and helping her own teen mother raise her siblings after her father passed away, Collines was able to obtain a scholarship through an international NGO to finish her education and attend University, representing less than 1% of women in her community to achieve a Bachelor’s degree. Collines’ vision to leverage her education to help uplift resources for students in her own community inspired her, and her friends from Colorado to start Far Away Friends with the aim of empowering more youth in rural Uganda to achieve their dreams, too. Collines still lives & works in Northern Uganda, implementing our programs full time as Country Director.
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