Your support helped ship school supplies to future leaders in Nigeria.  Nofisat an 11th-grade student shares the inspiration she derived from reading the Pencil Project book. 

We greatly appreciate your support, which is helping young ladies, like Theresa, get their education.  Theresa and her aunt express their deep gratitude for the educational support Theresa has received.  Theresa is now in college pursuing a degree in public health.

In this video, Theresa and her aunt express their gratitude saying 

We greatly appreciate your support that is helping future leaders in Ghana get an education and a nutritious meal at school.  Because of poverty, ignorance and child labor, hundreds of kids do not go to school or drop out of school every year.  With your support, more kids will have access to education and therefore greater opportunities and be better positioned to contribute to the community and national development.

The students at Kamawornie primary school and Kamawornie Secondary school in Northern Cameroon are thankful for your support.  The students in both schools received school supplies and tuition assistance for this school year and they are doing well and enjoying school thanks to the support they have received from generous donors.

You can see in this video their appreciation and see them learning and singing at school.

Many families in Sierra Leone were displaced due to the flooding and mudslide disaster that took place on August 14, 2017.  Your on-going support continues to bring hope to flood victims in Freetown.   Your support helped Salamatu with a microfinance loan so that she could restart her business that had been destroyed by the Flood.

Salamata expresses her gratitude for the loan in this video saying- 

Your ongoing support is continuing to help reverse deforestation in Freetown, Sierra Leone.     It is a slow process, but reforestation is crucial.  In African Development’s article, “The Land, Agriculture, and Forestry Nexus At the Heart of African Sustainability”, they say,  "How Africa manages its land, agriculture, and forestry is of critical importance to the health of its people, its economy and the world's climate." 

Success Tall Academy in Sierra Leone was delighted to receive school supplies thanks to your generous support.  The students at Success Tall Academy were delighted to receive book bags school supplies.

The school expressed their gratitude in the letter below saying

Your ongoing support has helped multiple vocational trainees at the Baptist Women’s Vocational Training Center.  There are currently 22 trainees at the Center and each student is working hard to create a better future for them and their families. 

We greatly appreciate your support that is empowering small businesses. Our microfinance or microcredit loans give individuals a helping hand to start their businesses or to help them grow their existing businesses.  Aminata is one of the small business owners that recently received a microfinance loan and she is also a mudslide survivor.

In her video, she expresses her appreciation saying

Your support helped provide the children in Liberia with a new school building this past year and is continuing to help complete other needed updates at the new school.  Students were eager to start school again this fall in their new school.   They are enjoying going to school and playing on the school playground.