Our mission
A Little Background.
We work in extremely impoverished communities where school structures don’t exist or are dilapidated, and lacking basic necessities. Often children are simply not given the opportunity to attend school. This leads to illiteracy, lack of opportunity for future employment, little understanding of proper nutrition and disease prevention techniques, higher rates of child abuse, pregnancy and infant mortality.
What We Do.
We partner with state public school education departments to organize and fund the construction of schools in impoverished communities in South America, where education facilities are absent. Once built, we supply the school and assist families such that any barriers preventing a child's ability to receive an education are overcome. Through our continued monitoring of the schools, we ensure a high standard of curriculum and organize routine visits by health professionals to ensure that our student's live a healthly, educated life.
What We Aim to Achieve.
Our mission is to alleviate poverty by providing educational opportunities to children who are not being educated. Our primary schools are built in extremely impoverished urban settlements. We find communities where children are not going to school and do not have educational alternatives. Children not going to school; this is what we care about, this is what we seek to change. At the heart of our mission is community ownership of projects. We form partnerships with individuals, other organizations and community groups, where our support provides them with the means to positively impact a larger number of people and create tangible, sustainable community benefit.
We seek to encourage giving by forging real connections between target recipients and our donor population. We utilize the internet in an innovative manner to make the results of charitable donations directly visible. Volunteers and staff travel to project locations documenting stories of how our organization is transforming lives and produce photo and video proof, which is made available for all to see on our website.
Through our work, we hope to inspire and accelerate worldwide social change by promoting global awareness of the educational issues facing extremely impoverished communities and provoke compassionate and informed charitable giving. All donations are used to fund educational focused developmental projects through partnerships with communities and other organizations working in developing nations to combat poverty.
A youth whose feet will pass this way.
He, too, must cross in twilight dim,
Good friend, I'm building this bridge for him."
adapted from a poem by Will Allen Dromgoole