Education Foundation for African Children
Improving educational environments because talent and brilliance exist everywhere.
Our mission is to create safe educational spaces with quality resources to provide students in disadvantaged, rural areas of Africa with the knowledge they need to transform their lives and communities.
Investing in education infrastructure is an achievable step in breaking the cycle of illiteracy, poverty, and food insecurity.
Through work with local leaders and knowledge of the community, we help deliver safe, primary education services to over 800 rural students with an emphasis on gender parity, allowing girls to achieve their full potential.
Ready to take the next step?
For the cost of a single meal, you can provide an entire school year for a child, giving them the opportunity to develop their talents and enrich their community. Changing the world can begin with changing one child’s world through education and opportunity.
“Rural people in Africa often send their children to school with the objective that their children exit the rural community. They rear them to aspire to urban employment. Parents and children value performance at school in line with this objective. In this context, it is imperative that education at all levels be relevant to the livelihood options of the rural people. Otherwise, education will simply be a passport for emigration from rural areas, which is quite often the case.”
International Institute for Educational Planning http://www.unesco.org/iiep
Help us provide opportunities for rural children to break the cycle of poverty and bring change to their community.
Keeping up with the repairs and maintenance to the facilities serving 800 active elementary school children can be an expensive proposition! Without timely maintenance, however, small cosmetic issues can turn into more serious (expensive) repairs. For example, the concrete floors in several classrooms are deteriorating and the wooden desks (used by 2-3 students at a time) are showing considerable wear. EFFAC funded the construction of the concrete floors and desks in 2018 and is hoping to refresh these items in the 2025-26 school year at a cost of $11,500 and $4,500, respectively.