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• Education for Democracy

Our dynamic, transformational education program is unique. We help excluded, traumatized children become leaders. Our brand of "excellence  in education"  will enable East Africa to follow Asia's path and achieve technological and economic growth.

Stephen Shames Foundation / Concern for the Future offer an innovative remedy to the issue of child soldiers and to the HIV / AIDS crisis.

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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. The Computer Learning Center will move us closer to this goal. Education for Democracy outlines how our efforts fit into what ought to be a larger foreign policy initiative b y the west.

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Computer Learning Center
We hope to build a "state of the art" Computer Learning Center to prepare our youth and others for the 21st Century. The Computer Learning Center will be the best in Africa. It will be a world class educational center amd conference facility.

The center will be located in Kampala, Uganda's capitol and largest city. We plan to start with senior high school level classes. University level and graduate courses will be added next. The Center, which will have the best communication capabilities in East Africa, will be able to accomodate conferences and meetings.

The Computer Learning Center will be self-sustaining. Our school and conference center will generate income. Students from southern and east Africa will pay tuition, which will allow our scholars to attend gratis.

Dr. John C. Muyingo, a respected educator and Minster of Education for the Buganda Kingdom, will direct the center. Dr. Muyingo is headmaster of Uganda Martyr's Secondary School - Namugongo, Uganda's top ranked high school.

The Ecosa Institute, a well known architectural college is designing the buildings pro-bono. The design will be ecologically sound. The campus will incorprate local materials and fit with the environment.

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Education for Democracy
Educating leaders lifts people out of poverty. In the United States, education is the highway to success for millions of immigrants. An educated, technological elite is guiding India to super-power status.

Educating leaders in sub-Saharan Africa is especially important because the AIDS pandemic devastated the educated and managerial classes: teachers, civil servants, army commanders. Insecurity in northern Uganda has affected two generations. If we do not educate talented young orphans, if we ignore the brightest child soldiers, a nucleus of new administrators will not emerge, making it difficult to address issues like justice, re-integration; poverty and hunger.  

The Millennium Goal   of Universal Primary Education is a start . Africa will be slightly better off when people can write their names. But, will primary graduates have the skills to lead their countries to progress, to chart their own destiny?

The "excellence in education" approach of Concern for the Future must be added   to the Millennium Goals. If we train bright students from the excluded underclass to reach a "world class" level, these leaders will be agents for change.

Education: A Way to Combat Terrorism
People in the west feel things -- the war in Iraq, global warming, the world economy--are out of control. They are sick of war, yet fear for their safety due to terrorism. The Iraq mess has no good solution, only less bad alternatives.

It is important to enunciate a larger strategy. This new foreign policy approach must be larger than Iraq. It must offer a new path: a better strategy to promote democracy and fight terrorism.

Education is the missing component. By training leaders; by providing orphans with marketable 21 st century skills, we :

•  Build solid relationships between the west and the third world
•  Strengthen local institutions by working inside the culture
•  Undercut support for extremist groups
•  Create hope from despair

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Educating leaders does not stand in opposition to military action. Both are needed. However, let us not forget that total reliance on military power resulted in a loss of American prestige and increased regional instability.

This dual approach worked after World War II. The Marshall Plan contained Communism by fostering economic development. It re-built infrastructure. Today's infrastructure is both mental and physical. Knowledge is the pathway to economic growth. That is why education must be part of any security strategy.

Our Model Is Visionary
Concern for the Future, an education and leadership program in Uganda funded by the Stephen Shames Foundation, is no ordinary program. Our plan provides a vision, a road map how we can alleviate poverty and create a safer world.  

Most of the aid that is directed toward education of third world children barely moves us closer to these goals. Students are put into local, sub-standard schools and given minimal guidance. This offers subsistence; not transformation.

We transform children's lives. Concern for the Future is an intense, leadership building program. We locate excluded youngsters -- child soldiers, AIDS orphans, children working in rock quarries, kids in refugee camps, young people in child-headed families, and street kids. We enroll them in the top schools, help them climb to the top of their class, and propel them to university.

Concern for the Future creates innovative, "world class" leaders. These dedicated young people will help Africa achieve democracy, prosperity, and stability.

Please support us so our youngsters can realize their goals.

Support us so our approach can serve as a beacon to our disoriented and drifting ship of state as it seeks to find a safe harbor in these dangerous and turbulent times.

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