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ABLE & WILLING INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION,
INC.
301-685-3282
Frederick, Md., USA
Able & Willing is a non-profit, IRS 501(c)(3), non-denominational,
all volunteer run organization with headquarters in Frederick,
Maryland AWIEF
Mission
Able
& Willing International Education Foundation, Inc., is a private
non-profit organization.
Our Mission is to promote education and development in the following ways:
- Build
schools in areas where access to basic education is limited
- Establish
income-generating projects that teach students life skills and allow
the schools to be self-supporting
- Foster
regenerative natural resource activities within the communities where
the schools are located
- Educate the US public about other countries
and culture and raise awareness of the interdependent nature of the world
AWIEF
Vision
We know
that there are many bright and motivated children in the world who,
through no fault of their own, have no access to education. There are
parents willing to work hard and make sacrifices so that their children
may receive an education, but who dont have the resources to
build a school. We are working to build schools where they are needed
and desperately wanted and where the communities are willing and able
to maintain them after they are built.
AWIEF
Model
More than just building
the school buildings and getting the schools up and running and self-supporting,
AWIEF seeks to achieve and model a healthy process of development in communities
in developing countries. A part of the process is to have the children and parents
help carry bricks, carry water, mix cement, and be part of the progress of the
school that is coming together with little capital but much cooperation. And part
of the process that we are fostering is for the villagers to be experiencing and
observing the development of the parents' committee, and the governing board,
and the creation of income generating activities that are appropriate and environmentally
responsible.
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