Help children go to school in Africa and see exactly where your money goes.

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How we work

LearnAsOne is a charity that funds schools in Africa. We work by partnering with NGOs on the ground who have a proven track record of facilitating sustainable education projects.

Our partners link us with communities who have the drive and commitment to build their own schools. Those with the initiative to set-up a temporary structure to get a basic school off the ground rather than just waiting and hoping for help to arrive.

Communities who are happy to make bricks by hand and contribute labour for free. But who simply cannot afford building materials like cement, glass and roofing tiles.

Committed communities often set-up temporary classrooms to get a school of the ground.

Communities often set-up a temporary classroom to get a school of the ground.

What do you need?

This is the key question we ask to every community we meet.

No imposing western ideas. No impractical solutions. Just listening to the communities real educational needs and helping to provide the funds and training so they can meet them themselves.

Our only rule is that we won’t fund things that create and on-going dependency on LearnAsOne. Why? Because a school can only be successful if the community takes ownership of it in a sustainable way.

For example. Funding a teacher’s salary is not sustainable. But if you can provide the funding for a teacher’s house then the government will sent a trained teacher for as long as the house remains standing.

Whatever the communities needs we’ll give them a way to tell you. And we’ll always provide a breakdown of the costs involved.

See, meet and communicate.

Updates, update, updates. Education isn’t a short term fix. It takes time to make a lasting difference. So we want to share ongoing stories from members of every community your donations help.

Through videos, photos and stories you’ll get to hear directly from the people who lives you are changing. We’ll teach them how to use a Flip video camera and a digital camera so simple updates can continue when we are back home.

Thanks to cheap technology you will always get to see your money in action.

Thanks to cheap technology you will always get to see your money in action.

You will also have regular opportunities to post questions to members of the community questions on our blog, which they will answer in their own words.

Every step of the way you’ll get to see exactly how your money is spent. There are many ways you can get involved.