Above: Sunset view from top of 30 ft. termite mound
on Myrt School campus in Congo.
Able & Willing International Educational Foundation (AWIEF) is a grassroots nonprofit organization dedicated to establishing schools in areas of extreme poverty and need.
The entirely volunteer staff coordinates physical construction of buildings and manages program development to ensure that schools can ultimately govern and sustain themselves.
Puma and Waza volunteers arrive in Congo
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June 2010 Newsletter
describes plans for work in Congo
Two books
by our Founder
Proceeds from Mbuyu's storybook and cookbook
will pay for orphans education.
Notable Accomplishments
- Since its establishment in 1995, AWIEF has concentrated its efforts in rural villages of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa.
- We have built one of the best schools in the Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
- The school provides elementary through technical education in a village that had no electricity, toilets, or sanitary water supply previous to our arrival.
- With tuition at $7.00 per month, a basic education is within reach for a typical local family.
- We provide free tuition for orphans and a Work-for- Education program for parents who cannot afford their children’s tuition.
- Fully equipped school workshops make furniture for other schools.
- We even have a computer lab powered partially by a windmill!
- We have shipped over 300 computers to schools in Congo, Cameroon, Nicaragua, Liberia, and Kenya.
- We are continuing to build schools in other villages in Congo that are self supporting and self governing.
- A medical complex to serve four rural villages is under construction.
- How did we do it? It took sixteen years of dedication, trial and error, technical innovation, the hard work of parents and students, and the generous contributions from our many friends.
Most Recent Projects
Expanding school in Poleni Village, Democratic Republic of Congo.
Classroom for grades 3 & 4 and new toilet facilities (addition at right).
Construction starts on a medical complex in Poleni village for clinic and nursing school.
Tshamalale village: New preschool classroom (left) and demo area for masonry arches (right).
The full stories are in our Newsletters for December 2009 and
January 2010. See our Newsletters
section.