Program — Education
Education
Education is the only gift that compounds across generations. We fund schools, teachers, scholarships, and learning materials — with particular attention to girls' education, where the return on a single classroom ripples outward for decades.
Approach
Teachers, first
Trained, supported, and retained teachers — the single greatest determinant of whether a classroom changes a life.
Girls' education
Scholarships, safe facilities, and community partnership where the return on a single classroom ripples outward for decades.
The whole classroom
Materials, libraries, and learning environments that make attendance worthwhile and keep students enrolled.
In the field
The teacher is the program
A district that invested in mentoring and retaining teachers saw attendance and completion rise together. Buildings matter; the person at the front of the room matters more.
A classroom that ripples
Scholarships kept a cohort of girls in school through the years they are most often lost. The effect, study after study, reaches into the next generation.
Numbers
- 410,000
- students reached
- 6,200
- teachers trained and supported
- 57%
- of scholarships to girls