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# Samohi students helping Uganda
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/samohi-students-helping-uganda/
- Published: 2007-05-16T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T00:45:53.000Z
- Author: Melody Hanatani
- Tags: Education, Santa Monica, #archive-import

SAMOHI The atrocities being exacted on young children in Northern Uganda might be a world away, but the distance isn’t stopping a group of local teenagers from doing what they can to raise awareness about the devastation in the African country.

Over the past few months, the socially minded Santa Monica High School students have engaged in an array of fundraising tactics, everything from selling T-shirts to asking mom and dad straight up for money. It was an all-out attempt to meet their $20,000 fundraising goal by midnight tonight to build schools in Northern Uganda.

The African country has been scarred by civil war since the early 1980s, a clash between the Uganda government and the rebel group Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). The schools in Northern Uganda have been torn apart as a result of the conflict, leaving young children without a means to education.

Spearheaded by Schools for Schools, part of non-profit organization Invisible Children, the project pits high schools and colleges across the country against one another in friendly competition, each school trying to raise as much money possible to build 10 schools in Northern Uganda.

Samohi is among more than 50 schools in its region, helping raise more than $139,000 to build the Sacred Heart Secondary School. Clustered in the same region are local Southern California schools like Brea Olinda High School, Los Altos High

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SCHOOL WORK: Documentaries help spread the word. (Photo: Photo courtesy)

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SCHOOL WORK: Documentaries help spread the word. (Photo: Photo courtesy)

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on May 16, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/051607.pdf?ref=smdp.com)