Far Away Friends exists to equip youth in rural Uganda with the tools to end cycles of generational poverty forever.
06/02/2026
You know that Global Leaders Primary school brings access to quality education to all the children of Amolatar district no matter how far away the village, BUT did you know our doors opened to the first students in June 10 years ago?
Join us in celebrating a decade of profound impact by supporting our vision to educate more children.
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05/28/2026
2019 — The Well.
Before the well, students at Global Leaders walked an hour and a half each day to fetch water along a dangerous road. In the dry season, older students carried heavy containers back to school in extreme heat. Time meant for learning was spent surviving.
On Giving Tuesday 2018, a small Far Away Friends team locked themselves in an office and went LIVE on Facebook, taking dares for donations. Eight hours later:with matching funds from GoodBookey and Little Man Ice Cream, and a final $5,000 from the Green Family, they had raised over $10,000.
The well opened at GLP in December 2018. By 2019, it served the entire campus, plus families in the surrounding villages of Adagkolo and Adagani.
Three minutes to water, instead of an hour and a half. That is what one well buys you.
What Ten Years Builds.
Give $10 for 10 Years — one week of supplies for one student. Link in bio.
05/26/2026
2018 — The First Pass.
Apili Peninah joined Global Leaders in 2016. She was struggling with basic literacy when she walked through the gate. Her family couldn't always afford school fees. Some weeks she didn't make it to class.
In November 2018, she sat for her Primary Leaving Exams.
She scored 8 points. First grade. Top of her class — and top of the entire Amolatar District. Four points shy of a perfect score. Her exam earned her a half bursary to Makerere High School Migadde. She wants to be an engineer.
That same November, every Primary 7 student at Global Leaders passed the PLE in the top two divisions. One hundred percent. The streak started there. It has not broken since.
What Ten Years Builds.
Give $10 for 10 Years: one week of supplies for one student.
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05/21/2026
This week, we are handing over Stories.
Three days. Three voices. Three versions of a school day at Global Leaders.
Today: Honorable Collines Angwech walks us through Namasale. Tomorrow: a GLP teacher takes us inside their classroom. Friday: a Global Leaders student gives us their version.
Unscripted. Unedited. The school in the words of the people who live it.
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What Ten Years Builds.
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05/20/2026
“At my previous job it was normal for me to go over 14 days without pay. But at GLP payment is always prompt.” — Veve, P6 teacher at Global Leaders.
In Uganda, teachers can wait two months for a paycheck. Whole schools have been hollowed out by it — good educators leaving for jobs that pay on time, students arriving to classrooms with no one at the front of them.
In 2017, Global Leaders paid every teacher, every month, on time, every single time. One hundred percent. That is what kept Madam Judith there. And Sebastian, who taught music and coached the soccer team. And Agnes, the matron who walked sleepy-eyed preschoolers to bed after movie night. And the rest of the nineteen Ugandan teachers and staff who chose to stay.
That same year, BackUp Uganda came to Namasale and trained thirty teachers from across the area for free. Eight solar panels went up — making Global Leaders the brightest building in the village.
The school stayed because the teachers stayed. The teachers stayed because someone showed up for them, every month, on time.
What Ten Years Builds.
Become a monthly donor at $30/month — sustain the teachers who sustain the school. Link in bio.
In March 2016, a marching band led a parade through Namasale.
Behind the band: the first 100 students of Global Leaders Primary School. Ironed uniforms. Teachers flanking them. Six hundred parents, neighbors, and community leaders lining the road.
Some of those students had never been in a classroom. Some had been out of school for years carrying quiet histories of lost parents, lost time, and lost chances. All of them were there, ironed and upright, moving through their own town like it had just made space for them.
The walls of the school had gone up because the community carried the materials themselves. The funding came from $20 donations and handmade beads sold across kitchen tables.
This is what ten years started with. One parade. One hundred kids. A community that decided to show up and did.
What Ten Years Builds.
Give $10 for 10 Years: one week of supplies for one student at Global Leaders. Link in bio.
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05/14/2026
If you walked through the gate at Global Leaders in 2016, we want to hear from you.
You were the first hundred. The first to wear the uniform. The first to march in the opening day parade through Namasale. The first to sit at those desks. The first.
We are spending the next two months telling this school's story — and we want yours in it.
Tell us where you are now. What you're studying. What you're working on. What you remember.
Reply to this post, message Far Away Friends Uganda, or pass this on to anyone you know from that 2016 class.
What Ten Years Builds — but you built it first.
Reply, DM, or tag a friend from the Class of 2016. We want as many of you as we can find.
05/12/2026
Ten years of Global Leaders, in one place.
Today we are opening farawayfriends.org/glp10 — the home for everything we are sharing this anniversary year. The first day in 2016. The first 100% pass rate. The well that gave 70 families their mornings back. The computer lab. The co-founder who walked from this school to Parliament.
One story a week, all the way through June. Read along, or get the daily field updates in your inbox.
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05/10/2026
To the mothers of Global Leaders.
The ones who walk their kids to the gate before the day has fully begun.
The grandmothers raising the kids whose mothers cannot.
The women who showed up when the school needed them most and would not let it fall.
The mothers far away who let their children care about children they have never met.
The women who stand at the front of our classrooms every day and decide, again, to stay.
This school exists because mothers said it should.
Happy Mother's Day
05/07/2026
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