Nick Harrington
Nick Harrington is still a freshly minted graduate, but he has already made an outsized impact. He’s the founding director of the Manjeri School Project, an organisation dedicated to empowering a rural Ugandan village through education and sustainable development.
The story starts before Nick began uni, when on his gap year he discovered a school with crumbling infrastructure and unpaid teachers. He set about creating a business, to restore the school and make it sustainable.
Several years later the school is now out of bankruptcy and has a number of businesses operating throughout the community.
There are new classrooms and toilets, and Nick is planning to withdraw by 2018. He speaks to Josh Nicholas.