When 8-year-old Gloria arrived at her first day of a Building Tomorrow “Roots to Rise” literacy camp in Iganga District, Uganda, she was (like over 90 percent of her Ugandan peers) struggling to master the basics of reading, writing, and arithmetic.
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Building Tomorrow Named 2025 International Prize Winner by U.S. Library of Congress
The top prize win reflects Building Tomorrow’s contribution to increasing literacy levels in East Africa. (WASHINGTON) September 8, 2025 – The Library of Congress Literacy Awards Program announced today—on International Literacy Day—Building Tomorrow as the 2025...
Building Tomorrow To Expand Programming To Rwanda
Building Tomorrow will contextualize its proven Roots to Rise literacy and numeracy program in a second country of operation. (KIGALI, Rwanda) May 5, 2025 – Building Tomorrow (BT) announced today the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Rwanda’s...
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