ASAP works with rural African communities to build a better future for their children. The "Assistance" aspect is key. ASAP only works with communities that have shown a committed effort to the development of a school. If measurable progress is made, then ASAP assesses the school's needs and village commitment to the school's success in conjunction with community leaders before "adopting" the school. Once a partnership is established, ASAP raises funds to cover the costs of projects, and then recruits a team of volunteers to travel to the village to assist locals in the construction of the school. These volunteers are given an opportunity to gain an understanding of life in impoverished Africa.

www.africaschoolassistanceproject.org 

Born in 2002 out of the ideas and efforts of Wellingtone Nabwoba, a former Kenya Government teacher, the Anajali Primary School has risen from a humble endeavor schooling six children in Nairobi's poverty-stricken Kibera Slum to become one of the top 10 schools in the city environs, educating 475 orphaned and abandoned youth from kindergarten to grade eight. Currently, private donations sustain the school and the World Food Programme helps nourish students with one meal a day. Resources are meager, but Anajali is fortunate to have a number of dedicated individuals - associated with various groups, including the Denver Southeast Rotary Club and Anajali Ministries - working to help maintain the school, while developing projects that will result in a sorely needed secondary institution and future vocational and skills training programs for kids from Kibera.

Camp Sonshine Africa (CSA) works in the community of Maitland Garden Village, Cape Town, South Africa, uplifiting impoverished children who attend the Garden Village School. Many of these children are residents of Garden Village, but others live in townships such as Khayelitsha, Langa, Guguletu, and Philippi. Camp Sonshine Africa gives these children an opportunity to stay engaged with activities that will enrich their lives, and create incentives to stay removed from environments that compel poor decisions and perpetuate poverty and crime. The organization actively supports and encourages educational development as a foundation for a better future.

Friends of Guéoul is a Colorado non-profit organization. Their mission is to educate girls in the village of Guéoul, Sénégal whose families are too poor for them to go to school. The support of this organization allows these young girls the opportunity to go to school based on their talent and initiative, rather than upon lack of money and other resources. Ultimately their goal is to promote empowerment and success of each girl into adulthood.

http://www.gueoul.org/

Into Your Hands works in the Masak district of Uganda to help provide educational opportunities and enterprise development. Self-sufficiency is a key component of the organization's programs, which work to develop school infrastructure, provide for the needs of disable children, and create income opportunities for vulnerable youngsters and adults alike.

http://intoyourhands.org

Project Education South Sudan (PESS) is a Denver-based nonprofit registered with the Government of Southern Sudan Relief and Rehabilitation Commission. PESS is a partnership of Sudanese and Americans that is responding to the destruction that resulted from the twenty-year Sudanese civil war, and is now looking ahead to the Southern Sudan independence referendum and the uncertainties that lie beyond. Its mission is to help fund and support indigenous Sudanese organizations and communities that build and maintain primary and secondary schools, and to train teachers in rural villages in Southern Sudan. PESS believes that sustained prosperity is dependent on the ability of children and adults to receive primary and secondary education and skills training.

http://projecteducationsudan.org/

The Tanzanian Education Project works in Tanzanian schools and businesses to support self sustaining education initiatives in Tanzania, East Africa. These projects will provide Tanzanian children with an education to better prepare them to be future leaders, parents and world citizens.

http://www.tzeducationproject.org/ &