Improving school campuses…

We build, repair, and update school facilities such as kitchens, water tanks, classrooms, and offices.

We provide manipulatives for early childhood learning, materials for teaching English, science, and math at all levels, and sewing machines/fabric for vocational training in tailoring.

Faculty and staff seeking professional development, teacher training, or degrees in education (up to the bachelor’s level) can apply for financial grants.

We promote athletic programs by building basketball/volleyball courts, equipping volleyball/soccer/basketball/sitball teams, supporting coaching and in some cases even paying coach’s salaries. We also help build general physical education programs, which are not common in rural schools. Pickleball and badminton are now popular at ES Gasiza!

We help students develop music and dance skills, which promote cooperation, teamwork, and social-emotional learning. Arts education in all its forms stimulates multiple areas of the brain, increases memory capacity and concentration, and improves academic skills in math, science, and especially reading. Good arts programs also increase school spirit and pride, which can motivate students to attend school more consistently. And for all ages, the arts are an invaluable means of self-expression.

Each year we enable hundreds of students to pay the school fees that keep them in school. These fees cover the cost of uniforms, paper/pens/pencils, exam registrations, and some textbooks not issued by the government. Lunch fees range from $2.50/month for the youngest students, to $10-$16/term for middle and high school students.

We have helped schools buy chickens, pigs, goats, rabbits, and most important—cows, all of which they breed to make money for school lunch programs.