About Us
Who We Are
Pompilla S. Agalo Foundation ( PSAF) is a membership foundation born out of the mind to educate, motivate and empower students. Member schools have access to, and participate in the activities and projects brought into the schools by the Foundation. This comes about by allowing students to network with external players who will bring their time resources, financial, technical and skills resources to enhance and color the school experience
Pompilla S. Agalo Foundation (PSAF), is a membership foundation for schools. Member schools install the Our Voices Now - OVN Communication Club, where they are trained to become entreprenuers.
We draw inspiration from the benevolent Fr. John Scalabrini, a zealous Comboni priest who arrived Uganda, from Italy in 1962. He was known for his devotion, over the years to improve formal education, and he provided thousand education sponsorships to students. He also adopted children into a multi-generational family, especially those from the war- torn northern Uganda. He always said, “to be illiterate is a double tragedy.”
With Fr. John’s demise in 2016, we his children, as he thought of us, now challenge ourselves to “carry on”, resonating with his precepts to empower students. With PSAF partnership opportunities, together, we shall put together resources that will influence positive mindset and facilitate trainings of teenagers, to free their generation from over dependence.
We are an optimistic group with the right zeal to provide deserving educational support opportunities to students
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Membership
Who is a member?
Members of the Foundation primarily are member schools, who register to become part of the bigger union of scholars in Uganda. Student in these schools provide the chance for external players that may be the civil society, private sector, NGOs, the media, professionals, volunteering associates, technocrats, senior citizens professionals, senior citizens, financial granting-bodies, volunteering associates, innovators and inventors, mentors and motivational icons, relevant world leaders, technocrats, authors, media, non-governmental organizations; civil-society, private sector and state actors; and any other legal entities in the local and other member schools to network with them in the local and international networks of the Foundation
Meet the Founder
Pompilla Suzan Agalo
Pompilla S. Agalo as “Pompi,” was the voice of the popular late-night rock radio program, “Sleepless,” on 95.9 Touch FM, 2009 - 2011. She was the brain child and organizer of what was Kampala’s first Rock Music Concert, staged at the Uganda national cultural center outdoors - 2011
Pompilla is outgoing, cool and rebellious! She is a lot fun, a creative cook, and has a great interest in Acholi culture. While she calls Gulu, Uganda home, she lives in Kampala where she taught ICT from 2012 to 2023.
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The Faces in their Eyes, is written in honour of Fr. John. Every purchase directly contributes to expanding the Literary Shelf of the foundation
The loss of her mother tears 12-year-old Agalo's family apart. Shuttled from one relative to another, she tries to fit in, aching for the love and belonging she has lost, but testing those who have the potential to offer it.
As her beloved hometown of Gulu is entrenched in the throes of a civil war, she grows into a restless school girl, prone to forbidden adventures at her Catholic boarding school. But love slips in more quietly, through a nun who leads Agalo to an aging Italian priest. He has taken in many other children, but none quite like the rebellious Agalo.
Can this two become father and daughter?
