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 don’t 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.