Arlington Academy of Hope

Provides education and healthcare to poor children in rural Uganda. Runs model school, supports 600 elementary, secondary, university students, and provides healthcare to a community of 10,000.

Arlington Academy of Hope (AAH) provides quality education and healthcare to children in rural Uganda. It runs a model elementary school for 340 children, provides secondary school scholarships to more than 280 students, and provides healthcare for more than 10,000 people annually. AAH also assists under resourced schools in the region to help improve their performance. It also helps local women start small businesses through microfinance loans.

AAH’s primary school has dedicated teachers who provide a well-rounded education and individual attention to the students.  The school ranks in the top 1 percent of some 19,000 schools in Uganda.  Schools in the district typically send an average of 14 percent of their students on to secondary school, but 100 percent of the graduates of AAH’s elementary school go on to secondary school.

AAH built a health clinic at the school for students and the local community. AAH opened a second clinic in Bupoto village, where it provides healthcare to thousands each year in an area in desperate need for basic services.

Founded by John and Joyce Wanda, who emigrating to the U.S. from Uganda more than a decade ago, AAH began as a way to bring the benefits of quality education to children in their native Ugandan villages. Today, the AAH is a symbol of what is possible in rural Africa and how people in the U.S. and elsewhere truly can make a difference, one child at a time