Educate! Presents the First Annual Ball For the Future of Uganda

Online, January 4, 2010 (Newswire.com) - Boulder, Colo. January 4, 2010 - Educate!, a Colorado and Uganda-based organization that empowers youth across Uganda to transform their communities by addressing poverty, disease, and ignorance, is throwing an event to raise money for students in Uganda: Educate!'s Annual Ball - For the Future of Uganda with special musical guest FACE on Saturday February 6, at Rembrandt Yard Art Gallery & Event Center, 1301 Spruce Street, in Boulder from 5:30-11 p.m. The Ball will include hundreds of Colorado supporters, dancing, live music, a silent auction, raffle and refreshments.

"We're thrilled to hold an event that gathers our community together and at the same time helps our students in Uganda to transform their communities," Says Eric Glustrom, Co-founder/Executive Director of Educate!. "Our hope for the event is to connect our supporters here to the Educate! students in Uganda and raise funds to empower our students to solve the critical challenges facing their communities."

Boulder native, Glustrom, founded Educate! in 2002 at age 17 after a visit to Kyangwali Refugee Settlement in Uganda. Impressed by the potential and drive of the African youth to solve the numerous challenges facing their community from poverty, to malaria and corruption, Glustrom started Educate! to equip the next generation of leaders in Uganda.

415 (830 in 2010) Educate! students are currently enrolled in the Educate! Experience-a two-year curriculum focusing on social change, mentorship, and leadership that equips students with the skills and confidence necessary to transform their communities. Students have started a variety of self-sustaining initiatives and enterprises including a business that turns waste paper into bulletin boards, a jewelry business that provides employment to women in their community, and a tree nursery enterprise that helps the environment.

Tickets are $50 per person, $40 for students and $90 per couple. Each ticket sponsors a student through two months of the Educate! Experience and all proceeds go directly to Educate! to empower students in Uganda through an innovative social change curriculum. For more information about Educate!'s Annual Ball visit: www.experienceeducate.org/AnnualBall

About Educate!

Educate!, founded in 2002, empowers students across Uganda to drive the social, political and economic development of their communities. We teach a two-year curriculum on how to lead social change, provide long term mentoring, and create a life-long, national network that equips students with the skills and confidence necessary to transform their communities. Educate! students create locally-grown, market based initiatives that solve the challenges of poverty, disease, and environmental degradation.

Today, Educate! is empowering 415 (830 in 2010) young leaders at 24 high schools across Uganda and has impacted over 10,000 people. A recent winner of the Champions of Quality Education in Africa competition, a collaboration between Ashoka's Changemakers and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Educate! was also recognized by Entrepreneur magazine as one of 100 Brilliant Companies in 2009, by DoSomething as an organization started by one of America's top five change-makers under 25 and by the Echoing Green fellowship, recognizing the highest potential startup social change ventures worldwide.

Educate! Mission: To educate and empower the next generation of socially responsible leaders in Africa. For more information on Educate! visit: www.experienceeducate.org