These 24 generous sponsors are already paying a $20/month matching donation for 81 of the 262 students. That leaves 221 students without a match (scroll down for photos). Please consider subscribing. Once all students receive a match, this school will break even.
Our mission is to help create the best educated generation in Rwanda's history, and to offer this opportunity to some of country's poorest families. We pare our costs down to the absolute minimum, yet even so, villagers here genuinely cannot afford to pay the minimum fee necessary to balance our books. In most cases though, they can and should make some contribution so that they value the privilege. We have settled on a 50:50 price matching model. Assuming near full enrolment of about 400 students, with boarding and full staff, the gross monthly running cost will be $16k. That means our average cost per student is $40 per month. We ask families to pay the first $20, then we help them find a sponsor to match it. This $40 covers tuition, meals, uniforms and school trips. Grades in Rwanda are N1-N3 for kindergarten, P1-P6 for primary and S1-S3 for lower secondary (we don't yet offer upper secondary. Mediated conversations and visits are possible if both sides consent. Look through these student photos and if you would like to sponsor one of them, then subscribe to $20 per month and email roger.shaw@gmail.com with your student's name.
Students in need of 50% match sponsorship ($20/month)
Primary 2 (2nd Grade) |
Primary 3 (3rd Grade) |
Primary 6 (6th Grade) |
Senior 1 (7th Grade) |