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In 2014, during a summer trip to the outskirts of Kampala, Uganda, we discovered some huts; badly built with canes and mud, topped with rusty tin, holey rooves, badly damaged by the wind and rain. No running water, no electricity. It was the St. Juliana Parents School, one of the poorest schools in the city. Nearly 100 children were trying to learn, mostly sitting on the muddy floor and cramped on the few benches available; the orphans slept in a storeshed, on rugged pieces of filthy foam, fighting with rats, flies and cockroaches. The kitchen was a shelter made of rags with a fire-pit and the toilet was just a hole in the ground. There were few teachers and they were very badly paid. We decided to act in person: we set up the NGO “Expanded Horizons” and in August 2015, went back to Kampala and thanks to the donations of 140 friends from Italy, Spain, Germany and Norway, in 44 days and with less than €10,000 we built (with our bare hands) 7 classrooms, a kitchen, 2 rooms with b

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