Atanasi projects follow the rural African way - built by hand; starting with whatever resources are available; progressing as far as possible; patiently waiting for the materials and funding needed to take the next step; and, then taking that next step. 

Clear the brush. Dig a foundation. Buy bricks and bags of mortar. Build the foundation walls. Buy truck loads of gravel. Fill and compact gravel. Buy truckloads of rocks and fill. Buy 100's bags of cement. Mix cement in wheelbarrows. Pour and level cement. Buy 10,000's brick and wood framing. Erect the walls and frame the windows and doors. Buy nails, beams, metal panels. Raise the roof. Plaster the walls. Undercoat paint. Top coat. Buy and install windows, shutters, doors...slowly and steadily!

For over a decade diligent students listened attentively, sometimes with notebooks, to teachers speaking and illustrating in chalk on blackboards at the front of the classroom.

Five primary level classrooms (levels 3-7),each received 12 copies of each of the four standard Ugandan subject matter textbooks (Social Studies, Math, Integrated Sciences, and English). That provides one copy to be shared amongst every 4 students. For students in the lower classrooms (Middle (preK), Top (Kindergarten), levels 1 - 2) 12 copies of each of five "readers" were  provided. Again providing one copy to be shared amongst every 4 students. 

Additionally, metal cases were acquired for storage in a challenging tropical environment.

Permanent buildings - on a cement foundation, with plastered and painted solid brick walls, sturdy metal roofs, windows and doors, benches, desks, and blackboards in every classroom - provide a much better education environment and shelter students and teachers during the twice yearly rainy season downpours, early morning cold snaps and dusty winds. The first block of 4 classrooms and offices opened in summer 2023.

In 2016 Father Fred Jenga launched the Atanansi Community Based Organization, a community development initiative focused on the rural poor, especially children, women, and youth  in one of the most impoverished regions of Uganda. The goal was to help families to break out of the cycle of poverty so as to live in dignity. 

One of the first steps was to establish a community grade school, depending entirely upon supportive friends and the students' families. In January 2016, 89 village students opened the school under the direction of trained teachers.