Raising Voices
For General Operating Support
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Amount$200,000
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Program
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Date Awarded9/25/2007
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Term31 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Organization
Strategies
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.raisingvoices.org
Address
P.O. Box 6770
Plot 16 Tufnell Drive, Kamwokya
Kampala, Uganda
Plot 16 Tufnell Drive, Kamwokya
Kampala, Uganda
Grants to this Grantee
for implementing a Good Schools Toolkit to improve the classroom environment in Ugandan schools
The threat of violence in the classroom is one of the many obstacles that prevents Ugandan children from learning. This grant would support Raising Voices to expand its work with schools on developing safer classroom environments in which corporal punishment is banned, teachers elicit more participation from students, and children are given freedom to think critically and creatively as a result. Raising Voices would strengthen its "good schools" approach in the Luwero district by engaging with more schools, facilitating community engagement, and running a district-wide "best teacher" competition to promote classroom changes that improve student achievement.