The School 2 School program builds upon Millennium Promise’s mission to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by empowering children and youth. The program leverages innovative technology to connect classrooms in impoverished communities in Africa to classrooms in the United States to engage in a cross-cultural learning experience that promotes global awareness and action. Schools in the Millennium Villages in Africa will benefit directly through peer-to-peer interaction with students and teachers in the United States while obtaining important computer literacy skills. Meanwhile, students and teachers in the United States gain a clear, accurate picture of life in Africa and are equipped with the experience to be advocates and activists in the campaign to eradicate extreme poverty. The work is premised on the belief that, for the first time in history, our generation has the opportunity to end extreme poverty, hunger, and preventable disease by coming together and forming these global partnerships.

Millennium Promise, in collaboration with the Earth Institute at Columbia University, launched its School 2 School pilot program by connecting the Whitby School of Greenwich, Connecticut to the Omniwicamba School in the Millennium Village cluster of Ruhiira, Uganda on May 15, 2008

In August 2009, School 2 School began a close collaboration with One World Youth Project, which has more than five years’ experience in developing dynamic school partnerships from around the world, to develop expanded curricular resources and an on-line platform for this exciting program.