Building Classrooms. Building Hope.

Golden Mind Academy is a school project under construction in Ayilo Refugee Settlement, Uganda, to provide refugee and vulnerable children with access to safe, high-quality education. Construction is already underway, and our goal is to create a safe and supportive learning environment where children can grow academically, personally, and as future leaders.

Our Project

Golden Mind Academy is currently constructing classrooms in Ayilo Refugee Settlement, Uganda. The school will begin with Nursery and Primary sections and aims to serve hundreds of children from refugee and host communities.

Construction has already started, but more support is still needed to complete classrooms, roofing, flooring, and other important work.

This project is not just about buildings. It is about creating a place where children can learn with dignity, discover their potential, and build a better future.

Classroom frame and roof structure awaiting bricklaying at Golden Mind Academy — Classroom frame and roof structure, awaiting bricklaying

Worker digging the trench for the septic tank — Digging the septic tank trench

Truck delivering lumber and roofing materials to the school site — Materials delivery — lumber and roofing sheets

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Every contribution helps bring us closer to opening the doors of Golden Mind Academy.

Your support helps provide: roofing materials, cement and bricks, school furniture, and safe learning spaces for children.

Team

Golden Mind Academy was founded on lived experience.

Our founder, Dut Phillip Jool Joh, grew up as a refugee in Ayilo Refugee Settlement after fleeing conflict in South Sudan at a young age. Like many children in the settlement, he studied under trees, walked long distances barefoot, and learned in overcrowded classrooms with very limited resources. Despite these challenges, education became a path of hope and opportunity, eventually leading him to Yale University.

Today, Golden Mind Academy is being built so that children growing up in refugee communities can have access to a safe, structured, and supportive learning environment where they can learn, grow, and dream again.

Dut Phillip Jool Joh, Founder of Golden Mind Academy — Dut Phillip Jool Joh, *Founder*

Mawut Peter Nyok Mabior, Project Lead — Mawut Peter Nyok Mabior, *Project Lead*

Updates

Follow our journey as construction continues at Golden Mind Academy.

Here we will share:

Construction progress
Fundraising updates
Community activities
School announcements

Thank you for walking this journey with us.

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