The Akilah Institute for Women is a college for young women in Kigali, Rwanda.
Akilah empowers young women in East Africa to transform their lives by equipping them with the skills, knowledge, and confidence to become leaders and entrepreneurs.
Akilah aims to develop a model of transformational higher education for young women that can be replicated in emerging economies around the
...The Learning Foundation sponsors scholarships, purchases equipment and provides development assistance for a school in Kandahar (the Afghan-Canadian Community Center) as part of our Afghan School Project (ASP). Through the Afghan School Project, we have helped hundreds of students obtain high-paying employment that allows them to provide a living for themselves and their families while participating in the reconstruction of...
The Condor Trust for Education is based in Quito, Ecuador, and provides scholarships to children for both secondary and post-secondary education. They work with hardworking, driven students from "low or no income" families from poorer regions of Quito, or towns in the surrounding mountains. Their model places heavy emphasis on recognizing students as whole people with unique opportunities, challenges, aspirations,
...Create Change Foundation is a Vancouver based non-profit organization which implements grass-roots projects that bring basic needs such as clean water and education to those living without. Since Create Change's Ghana Girls' Education Program was initiated in 2007, it has witnessed change in the lives of almost 800 girls in Northern Ghana who have a dream of getting an education so...
Educate! works to directly address the most fundamental challenge facing Africa: the lack of socially responsible leadership across diverse sectors of society.Educate! created a model of education that unlocks the potential of the next generation to solve the greatest problems facing their communities. The curriculum is focused on the skills and experience students need to find solutions to poverty, violence,...
HUGGS stands for HELPING UNDERPRIVILEGED GIRLS AND GUYS STUDY. HUGGS places a strong emphasis on the potential of every student and their story is an example of the difference one person can make - how one dream can grow and make a difference in the world, one person at a time. VISIT PARTNER WEBSITE SEE THEIR...
The Maria Helena Foundation has three primary focus areas: 1. Fund construction of buildings used as educational facilities and skills training centres that:Provide quality education at low cost to poor children, Create employment and self-employment for poor women, and Offer scholarships to cover the tuition fees of under-privileged students. 2. Offer free home-based education in a non-formal setting to children...
The children of Ollantaytambo and the Patakancha Valley (in the Sacred Valley region of Peru) have limited means of turning their future dreams into reality after they graduate from high school. On average, only two or three students out of the 70 that graduate each year from Colegio Estatal Mixto Ollantay will continue their studies at a technical institute or...
The Rose Charities Canada scholarship program in Sri Lanka was created alongside other community development and microfinance initiatives managed by their team in the community. They saw that a degree or diploma had the potential lift the recipient, their families and children (then or future) out of poverty and dependency, probably forever, in a way other development initiatives could not.
...SEED's mission is to mobilize individuals towards the realization of their personal potential — in other words, we work to empower people. We do this by investing in education, as we believe that the knowledge, social development, and cognitive tools that are developed through learning create a foundation which allows people to positively affect their own conditions and the conditions...