PROTECT THE CHILDREN
Our Mission
Our Mission
Our Mission
Together Our Mission is a Non-Profit corporation for international deelopment devoted to Bringing cultures together in peace. Through musical collaboration we can help bridge the divides of cultural stigmas and bias, helping to push a message of health, education and human services, and leave a sustainable footprint that makes the community stronger and healthier.
Lightning Protection Video
Tom Larson, founder of Together Our Mission, has been an integral part of the H.A.M.P. (HIV Awareness Music Project) Entusi Music Festival (I Know Music Festival) in Kabale, Uganda, produced by the Global Livingston Institute. In 2014, as part of the Entusi Music Festival, Tom was able to visit a local school in a village named Kisiizi. While there, he learned that the school was often hit by lightning and many of the children had been hurt or killed. Upon returning to the states, he decided that something needed to be done.
Tom, with the help of Patrick Doyle and Vincent Avila, designed a system to be installed on the school in Kisiizi to lower the chance of it being struck by lightning by dissipating the electricity into the ground. In 2015 Tom started a fundraiser and raised enough money for all of the equipment and to bring an electrician (Vincent Avila) to help install everything correctly. Together Our Mission was born out of this project. There are more schools and buildings in this region that need help. Once these children have a safe place to go to school and start to graduate more consistently, they should also be given the opportunity to continue their education.
Tom Larson and Together Our Mission are devoted to continued growth throughout the world to achieve peace and promote health, education and human services in every corner of the globe.
Together Our Mission has completed lightning protection on 11 schools, 14 churches and 3 homes. We hope to continue to protect schools and churches in the area, in the order of importance, number of children and severity of strikes.
Develop Instructional Manual and video that can be translated into any language, to teach how to protect buildings from lightning strikes, and how to build new buildings so they are already protected.
Initiate the David A. Sandberg scholarship program to help the children of Kisiizi continue on through secondary school
Lightning protection system installed on 11 schools, 14 churches and three homes in the Lake Bunyonyi region of Southwestern Uganda. Together Our Mission is actively identifying new schools that have been struck and are in danger, compiling a list of the next ones that need to be addressed.
Introduction of the David A. Sandberg scholarship to help children continue their education beyond primary school.
Develop instructional manual and video, which can be translated in any language to teach how to install a lightning protection system on existing buildings.
The Mercy project named after Mercy who was the daughter of the headmaster of Kisiizi, who died in Lake Bunyonyi in a storm. Together Our Mission would like provide life vests to be used throughout the lake. Building life vest stations that can be placed around the lake at different points so life vests can be shared all around the lake.