Uganda, April 28 -- In the 1980s through to the 1990s, the Kibuli hill land on which Green Hill Academy squats was a garbage dump that once upon a time was a cemetery in suburban Kampala.

It was in 1993 that James Serufusa met two sisters Gladys Wambuzi and Janet Mdoe (both deceased). At the time, they were teachers at Kampala Parents School.

"Would the sisters be interested in joining forces to start a school that would more than rival Kampala Parents School?" Mr Serufusa asked.

While their eyes lit up almost in tandem, they were a bit apprehensive since they didn't have land within the capital to establish the school. Mr Serufusa had land, but it was on a squalid and overcrowded urban street.

Upon surveying the land, the sisters wer...