Sometimes we all need to get a little perspective, to take a few moments away from the pressures of our own busy lives and remember how important it is to contribute to others, especially those less fortunate than ourselves. 

The Clarify Foundation gives our team at Clarify an opportunity to make a contribution beyond the world of business – it is our way of raising money for a good cause, having fun together, and giving something back that delivers a real and lasting impact on the lives of other people. Since 2009 we have focussed our efforts on local voluntary projects here in the community in which we work and live, and to raising money to support an international development programme in Uganda. We are lucky enough to be able to send a small team of four employees each year to visit the building projects our fundraising is making possible. 

Since 2011 we've commited to fund annual building projects to renovate dangerously uninhabitable teacher’s accommodation in rural schools in the Mityana district of Uganda. These buildings are currently inhabited by teachers who are posted with their young children, often far from their families and homes. They live in very difficult conditions, sometimes unable to even get into the schools to teach young children many of whom may have walked for up to 2 hours, on an empty tummy, to reach the school. By working with local communities our projects can help them improve teacher’s security and quality of life which directly impacts the education and nourishment they can offer  Ugandan children. By housing teachers in the school grounds the security of the school improves, teachers have the energy to educate the children and to develop market gardens to teach the children how to grow food and raise animals. These gardens in turn produce maize to feed the children with what may be their only meal of the day.