Can you think of a better way to start off your week than with a happy update from The Ota Initiative? I certainly cannot, so let’s dive...

Before you read this update, I must first insist that you watch the above video (or check out this NPR news story), which is an...

I hope everyone had a wonderful Independence Day weekend full of hotdogs, hamburgers, and a few safe, legal explosions. While we have...

Hello from Kigali! After a busy week in Kayanga, I am now in Rwanda waiting to board my plane back to America this afternoon. Part of me...

As you are reading this, I am somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean flying back to Tanzania with Ota‘s first group of student volunteers from...

I hope you all have survived the cold weather and are enjoying this beautiful spring. While it would have been nice to hibernate through...

So what do elections, Pictionary, and Adolf Hitler have in common? They were all part of The Ota Initiative’s leadership curriculum this...

Five of Ota’s students with the dolls they made while exploring body parts and their functions during this past program. I hope you all...

The final countdown has begun! In less than one week our students will travel back to Kambarage Primary School and begin their third...

I am so happy to be posting our our blog again with more news of The Ota Initiative. Last time I wrote we had just finished up our second...