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Join the movement to make education more inclusive in Sub-Saharan Africa

This Give to the Max Day, we’re focusing on a critical need: providing adequate housing for teachers in rural southwestern Uganda. Over the past five years, your support has helped us make tremendous strides at Rwemiyenje Primary School, reducing teacher absenteeism from 40% to just 5% through improved housing.

This stability has strengthened student learning, and now, we need your help to bring this success to other schools in the district.
Our next goal is Nyakabaare Primary School, where 381 students rely on 14 dedicated teachers. Five teachers live on-site in a cramped, inadequate structure, while the rest commute over 5 kilometers daily, facing harsh weather and high absenteeism rates. With your support, we can build a new housing unit for six more teachers, increasing on-site staff to 11 out of 14. This will reduce absenteeism, improve teacher retention, and create a consistent, high-quality learning environment.
Your contribution will directly impact teacher well-being and student success, empowering more children to thrive through education. Join us in making this vision a reality!

Why our work is needed:

By 2035, more African individuals will be entering the workforce than the rest of the world. These challenges need to be addressed today:

• Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest rate of uneducated youth in the world. Before the pandemic, 53% of children in low—and middle-income countries could not read and understand a simple text by age 10. In SSA, this stat is probably closer to 90%. One factor contributing to this is unqualified or underqualified teachers. 
• One hundred thirty-three (133) million children in Africa are in schools and not learning.
• 25% of a school’s impact on a student’s academic performance comes from leadership effectiveness, while teacher quality accounts for up to 35%.

Impact:

• Provided 154 textbooks in core subjects to Primary 7 students to prepare for the Primary Leaving Exam in 2021 (all students passed!)
• Increased student performance on the Primary leaving exam, resulting in continuous metric improvement each year.
• Removed the barrier for girl education by providing reusable menstruation kits to 60 female students.
• Increased enrollment of 200 students post covid; Maintained ~50% female enrollment.
• Donate 3000+ books from Books For Africa to establish libraries at three schools.
• Provided 1774 home study kits to students during the extended school closure.
• Built eco-friendly kitchen to serve 700 student warm meals.
• Built dormitories, expanding the boarding capacity by 50%.
• From 2016 on, we have impacted over 2000 individuals.
• Reduced teacher absenteeism by 40% to just 5% through improved housing.
• Renovated girls’ dorm & bathroom.
• Sponsored five students in Zambia.

Ways to support Africa Strong:

• Donate

• Check out our website https://africastrong.org/

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• Become an ambassador

• Email us at info@africastronginc.org to learn more