Two Calhoun students headed for Uganda

Over the past four years, Calhoun High School’s Senior Experience program has worked with Invisible Children, a non-profit organization whose mission it is to raise awareness and funds for the forgotten children of northern Uganda who have been displaced and violently indoctrinated into Josef Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army.

The program has raised more than $50,000 and collected over 30,000 books to improve the Atanga Secondary School in Gulu, Uganda.

In December, Calhoun High School received news that, owing to its successful fundraising efforts in 2009, two Senior Experience students will be awarded a trip to the Invisible Children compound in northern Uganda this summer. They have not yet been selected.

Led by teachers Kate Caporusso and Jason Elias, the Senior Experience program is dedicated to service learning and global understanding. The interdisciplinary class continues to give students the opportunity to help those in need in their community and beyond.