Maintaining full accountability and
transparency to our donors is crucial. We
do it by:
- Transfering all school fees directly into the
bank accounts of schools
- Purchasing all school supplies directly and
distributing them to students at collective meetings
with the country coordinator one a trimester
- Conducting frequent audits and monitoring of the breakfast programs administered by our community partners
Recognizing that our students often need more than just school fees alone, we provide the following:
- Breakfast for all kids and pregnant mothers in
supported communities who need it
- Assistance with the annual co-pay for government
health insurance
- Necessary school supplies, like pens, and
pencils for all students and mattresses, soap,
and sanitary pads for secondary students in
boarding schools
By partnering directly with existing communities in Rwanda and in the US and by asking for multi-year
commitments from donors, we:
- Reduce the central administrative burden by
leveraging existing organizational
capacity and infrastructure
- Develop sustainable links that are flexible
and account for the mobility of individuals
- Ensure that once we get kids in school
we keep them there
We believe that when you commit to sponsoring a child your money should
go to that child, not to overhead. To
keep overhead low, we:
- Expect our partner communities in Rwanda
to contribute by providing administrative
support, labor for the breakfast program, etc.
- Rely fully on volunteer support in the Unites
States (both centrally and in our partner
communities)
- Hire only one part time staff member in Rwanda