Above: Sunset view from top of 30 ft. termite mound
on Myrt 1 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.
October 2011
Newsletter (Part 1) is
online
Part 2 will be available soon
Puma leads work in Congo
June 29, 2011 - February 29, 2012
Maggie Lusweti works for Kenya Schools
July 29 - August 28, 2011
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 to train students and make furniture for schools and goods for local markets.
- Brought hydroelectricity to school and village
- 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.
2010 Project Highlights
See our Newsletters for complete stories. Also, Photo Gallery
Hydroelectricy to Myrt 1 School
Power substation on Myrt 1 campus is connected to electricity grid powered by the Congo River. All service panels (inside, not shown) were made in school workshops.
Myrt students helped make 30 utility poles in the school workshops and install them and 30 kilometers of cable.
Waza Alliance Trains 150 Teachers
Three teachers from Indiana taught teaching methods to 150 area teachers.