Advocates for Grassroots Development in Uganda (AGRADU)

AGRADU was founded in 2005 as a student organization at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The organization has since sent over twenty interns to Uganda, and it will continue to do so in the future in order to help Ugandans fight poverty, disease, and conflict as well as to bring awareness back to their home communities. One current project of AGRADU, in association with Katosi Women Development Trust, is a program called Kicks for Katosi. Current AGRADU interns have helped establish a Sanitation and Health Club at a local primary school for orphans, in order to establish facilities for hand-washing, to create community gardens, and to raise awareness about sanitation through murals and posters around the school. Each term, the students that participate actively in the club will receive a pair of shoes, as most students walk barefoot over five miles to and from school every day.