Assisting Ugandan Children

The Stephen Shames Foundation raises funds for LEAD Uganda, an educational leadership initiative that locates forgotten children with innate talents and molds them into leaders.

LEAD Uganda is a joint project of the Stephen Shames Foundation (which raises money and awareness in the US and Europe) and Concern for the Future, an indigenous Ugandan non-profit, that looks after the children.

Go to the LEAD Uganda website

The LEAD staff, all native Ugandans, find bright, motivated AIDS orphans, child soldiers, children in refugee camps, and other vulnerable youth in Uganda who want to go to college but can't because of poverty, AIDS, and war.  LEAD Uganda 's student-members attend the very best primary and secondary schools, then go to university. We give them the world class, 21st century skills necessary to lead Africa into the future.

The LEAD Uganda initiative provides our scholars with everything they need to succeed: books, school supplies, medical care, food, clothes, and emotional support. The Ugandan staff, aided by community partners, imbue the children with a strong work ethic, a devotion to democratic values,   and a desire to serve.

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It Works
In a few years LEAD Uganda has transformed the lives of 75 youngsters, turning outsiders into leaders

•  One of our students was accepted at the African Leadership Academy in Johannesburg, one of Africa's top high schools.

•  Six of our 44 non-candidate students ranked 1st in their class.

•  Three were 2nd in their class. One each placed 3rd, 4th, and 5th.

•  Twenty -- nearly half of our students -- ranked in the top 10 of their classes. Thirty-one ranked in the top 20.

• A dozen of our students were elected to leadership positions at their schools.

Transform a Child's Life
LEAD Uganda represents a prototype that is badly needed. The education and cultivation of young leaders is a crucial, but often overlooked, component of our efforts to alleviate poverty and create a safer planet.

But we need your help to make this a reality.

Please sponsor a child.

Go to the LEAD Uganda website to find out how.

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The Stephen Shames Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit. Donations are tax deductible.