Connect Africa believes it must train local leaders to transform their communities if it wants to bring lasting change to northern Uganda. Over the past two years, Connect Africa has built three “Connect Africa Resource Centers” (CARCs) that serve as a base for Connect Africa’s trainingand technologies. At the centers, Connect Africa team members teach local leaders how to use sustainable technologies that in turn help raise local residents’ standard of living. CARCs are located on community-donated land that is within half a day’s bike ride of many villages and IDP camps that combined often total 250,000 people or more. Each CARC is constructed using a unique, inexpensive brick technology that is later taught at the centers. Each CARC can hold up to 60 people for conferences and serves as a working farm, water filter, and brick-making factory that demonstrates the CARC’s solutions. Additionally, each CARC includes a bathroom, kitchen, and indoor showers, and is equipped to sleep teams of 10 who may come from other regions or from outside Uganda. The centers have greatly helped increase Connect Africa’s impact in the northern regions of Uganda, and even Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.