Why Join Empower Education
Whether you're passionate about science, music, law, medicine, or athletics: there's a place for you here. Joining a committee means joining a team of driven students making a real difference.
- 🏆 Build real leadership skills: lead projects, run meetings, manage teams
- 📋 Earn community service hours recognized by schools and scholarship programs
- 🌍 Create tangible global impact: your work reaches students in Uganda, Mexico, and beyond
- 🤝 Work alongside 40+ motivated peers from across the country
- 📄 Strengthen your college application with meaningful, verifiable nonprofit experience
- 🔬 Explore your passion: from STEM to law to music to medicine
Uganda Project Committees
Our volunteer organization is committed in the hopes of assisting the children of Uganda in reaching their fullest potential. This organization is made up of eleven committees that range across all possible interests. Scroll down to learn more about each one!
Empower Education Committees
STEM
Psychology
Psychology
We are a volunteer group specializing in the STEM sciences, to educate the children of Green Hill Primary School. We will teach them through a variety of mediums such as videos about STEM, specific curriculums, or experiments about the subject at hand. Our goal is to create one video every other week, script/plan a video weekly, or write
We are a volunteer group specializing in the STEM sciences, to educate the children of Green Hill Primary School. We will teach them through a variety of mediums such as videos about STEM, specific curriculums, or experiments about the subject at hand. Our goal is to create one video every other week, script/plan a video weekly, or write one new page of the curriculum. We will know things have gone well if, at the end of absorbing our content, these kids have seen all our produced videos, can take their newfound knowledge and apply it to the real world
Psychology
Psychology
Psychology
The psychology committee is committed to introducing the students of Greenhill Primary School to fundamental psychological concepts, fostering emotional intelligence, and promoting mental well-being. Through educational booklets, curriculum lessons, and interactive videos, we aim to help students understand the importance of mental health
The psychology committee is committed to introducing the students of Greenhill Primary School to fundamental psychological concepts, fostering emotional intelligence, and promoting mental well-being. Through educational booklets, curriculum lessons, and interactive videos, we aim to help students understand the importance of mental health and cognitive development. Our goal is to help kids understand their thoughts and feelings while teaching them the importance of mental health and how our minds work.
Literature
Psychology
Literature
Learning how to read and write is an extremely important life skill as it boosts communication skills, increases critical thinking, broadens vocabulary, and helps gain knowledge. In the literature committee, we are dedicated to raising money in order to send interesting and fun books and reading materials to the Greenhill School in Ugand
Learning how to read and write is an extremely important life skill as it boosts communication skills, increases critical thinking, broadens vocabulary, and helps gain knowledge. In the literature committee, we are dedicated to raising money in order to send interesting and fun books and reading materials to the Greenhill School in Uganda. We are also building a curriculum to teach the teachers in the school how to make the kids love reading and writing to increase the literacy rate.
Medicine
Psychology
Literature
We are a volunteer group whose mission is to serve the underprivileged youth of Greenhill Primary School in Uganda and Oaxaca, Mexico, by educating them on medical concepts through various mediums, such as medical curriculum and various specialized booklets. Our goal is to ignite a passion for medicine in the next generation of kids in Uganda and other underserved countries.
Business and Finance
Business and Finance
Business and Finance
The business and finance group is working to fundraise in support of female owned small businesses in Uganda as well as raise money towards tuition aid in order to give all students an equal opportunity to learn at Greenhill Primary School. We also hope to spread our cause and encourage new volunteers to join us by creating merchandise for the organization.
Around the World
Business and Finance
Business and Finance
The Around the World group has a mission to share different cultures and lifestyles from every part of the world with the youth at Greenhill Primary School through informative videos and clips, with the aim to engage and educate. We hope to cultivate and expand these children’s perspectives and knowledge of the world around them.
Music
Business and Finance
Law & Advocacy
The VAPA group is based off of the fine arts, and is planning to raise money for recorders and TV equipment for the students of Greenhill Primary School.
Law & Advocacy
Business and Finance
Law & Advocacy
The Law and Advocacy group aims to help advocate for children to go to school, advocate for both children and teachers' rights, and help fundraise towards our mission.
Athletics
Rags to Pads
Rags to Pads
The Athletics Committee inspires youth in Uganda and Oaxaca through sports, games, equipment, booklets, and our soccer field project in Uganda.
Rags to Pads
Rags to Pads
Rags to Pads
Our mission is to ensure that something as basic as sanitary supplies will never stand between girls and their education.
Empower Education Programs
Sponsorships
Sponsorships
Sponsorships
Every child deserves an education, and we believe that no child should be left behind because of financial barriers. Through our sponsorship program, our goal is to support as many students as possible, so that they can afford to go to school, receive school uniforms, and have 3 meals a day. We hope to empower the students of Green Hill P
Every child deserves an education, and we believe that no child should be left behind because of financial barriers. Through our sponsorship program, our goal is to support as many students as possible, so that they can afford to go to school, receive school uniforms, and have 3 meals a day. We hope to empower the students of Green Hill Primary School in Uganda and Oaxaca, Mexico to reach their full potential by opening the door to education.
Music
Sponsorships
Sponsorships
Our goal is to give the students of Green Hill Primary School in Uganda and Oaxaca, Mexico a well-rounded education by teaching them music. We want to help students discover their talents and passions, and through a music curriculum and keyboards, we hope to help students break the cycle of poverty and create better futures for themselves and their families.
Ready to Make a Difference?
We meet every Sunday from 5:00–6:00 PM PST via Zoom. All highschoolers and experience levels welcome, just bring your passion!
Last Updated: October 11, 2025
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