With a strong alignment of values and a focus on the empowerment of women and girls in the IT space, so began our partnership with Seisma in 2020.

Seisma currently sponsor 85 of our secondary school girls as well as our IT Teacher, Jerome, and recently contributed to our Giving Day as matched funding partners.

Read on to find our more about our major corporate partner, Seisma.

We are excited to announce the appointment of Helen Caldwell as Acting CEO of School for Life while our CEO and Founding Director, Annabelle Chauncy, enjoys six months of parental leave to adjust to life as a new mother.

Helen joins us after nine and a half years at AIME (previously Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience) most notably as their Partnerships Director and close support to AIME’s CEO and Founder. Click through to meet Helen!

In September this year we ran our first ever Supporter Survey to better understand YOU our incredibly caring community of supporters.

Your insights and feedback allows us to better engage and communicate with you and ensure you feel respected and listened to by all of us here at School for Life.

Read on to learn more about our community of supporters!

After joining our Travel4Good Parent and Child trip back in September 2019, Jess was so inspired that two years later, her HSC Major Artwork portrays her experience on that trip to our schools in rural Uganda.

As students all across NSW are sitting their HSC exams, we had a quick chat with Jess about her HSC artwork, what education means to her and where to after the HSC.

At the age of 8, Jezzie was offered the chance to have a wish granted by the Starlight Children’s Foundation after long-suffering the autoimmune disease Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis (ADEM) since she was only 18 months old.

In August 2020 her wish - for children overseas to go to school, get an education and have a chance at life - was granted through connecting her with us here at School for Life.

Read on to find out more about our inspiring mini hero and Supporter in the Spotlight for this month.

School for Life celebrated a massive milestone on February 28, 2021. On this day we opened our first boarding facility and welcomed the first group of Senior girls to their new home. Here we share the story of the opening as well as introduce you to some of the wonderful students who started their boarding school journey with us.

Around one third of the world’s children do not have access to remote learning. So when COVID-19 hit and schools were forced to close around the globe, 463 million children - most of whom are from rural communities - fell into the chasm of the digital divide. The pandemic shed a brutal spotlight on the digital inequalities children face and the impact this has on accessing a quality education. At School for Life, we are hoping to bridge that gap by implementing Google Classroom while schools remain shut across Uganda.

After all schools across Uganda were mandated to shut down to prevent the escalating second wave of COVID-19 in early June, forcing our students to stay at home and keep within their villages, our Community & Welfare team quickly moved into action to ensure the wider population were educated on preventative measures to keep healthy and safe. In doing so, our team reached and educated a wider audience, helping to reduce the likelihood of our students contracting the virus whilst in contact with their local community members.

Co-Founders Roland and Liam launched eviG in November 2019, a profit-for-purpose business with a core mission of giving back and ensuring disadvantaged children in Australia and around the world get access to quality education. They recently started supporting School for Life and we love what they’re about, so here’s an intro to eviG!

It’s sometimes very hard to know if your dollars are truly making a difference and if you’re having the impact you hope to have on another person’s life. This is very much the case with sponsoring a child or getting your business involved on a corporate level! We recently spoke with one of our long-time supporters, Mike Coorey, who shares his incredible first-hand story of witnessing child sponsorship changing lives and how getting your business involved in philanthropy is a good thing.

Despite the challenges COVID-19 presented to all of our students this past year, and in particular to our Primary 7 Class of 2020, all of our students passed their National Primary Leaving Exams with a Division 3 or higher. We are so proud of all of our students for the remarkable result and introduce you to our top 3 highest performing Primary 7 students.

After the milestone completion and opening of the Senior girls’ boarding facility earlier this year, it wasn’t long until we started breaking the ground to begin building our Senior boys’ boarding school. Read on to follow the next chapter in School for Life’s history books and see how quickly this project is coming together!

Our CEO and Co-Founder, Annabelle Chauncy, recently shared her tips on turning a business idea into a life-changing reality on the Accelerator for Enterprising Women Sydney Summit.

At School for Life we are always looking for ways to enhance the learning and education being offered to our students. This year we had a strong focus on partnering with other organisations aligned with our core mission and values, and who would be able to provide training programs that would prepare our students with work ready skills or to develop their own small businesses. Enter Sawa World.

Read on to see how the recent Sawa World program has ignited a spark amongst our Primary 7 students.

Birdnest is a family retail business based in the small Snowy Mountains town of Cooma. School for Life Foundation is one of the lucky not-for-profit organisations that Birdsnest so generously chooses to support through its new Books for Good initiative.

Each year, School for Life hosts a Black Tie Gala Ball to raise funds for the Foundation’s mission to educate poverty out of existence.

After a Covid-cancelled 2020 event, we were excited to be able to host our signature event back at The Star, Sydney. Read on for the highlights of the night, a memorable live auction bidding war and how our 2021 Gala Ball set a new fundraising record.

The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award is a global program, which challenges young people to dream big, celebrate their achievements, and make a difference in their world. We are so excited to be bringing this initiative to the students at School for Life.

Meet Eliza Reid, one of our recent Child Sponsors and a long time supporter of School for Life. Eliza runs a highly successful Instagram account @bargain_homewares and uses the money she receives from sponsored posts to sponsor a child with us.

Heading up School for LIfe’s strategic leadership and providing oversight over our operations in Uganda is our new Country Director, Charlotte Oloya. We are excited to have her on our team. Read on to find out more about our new Country Director.

On the 14 October 2020 we launched School for Life’s Girls’ Fund in celebration of the United Nations International Day of the Girl. Watch the live recording to learn more about the Girls’ Fund and how you can get involved.