$100

Textbooks for a Year

Category: Education

Imagine going to school without textbooks, yet that is the reality for many Cameroonian students.

Your gift of $100 can purchase a student’s books for one year – a vital gift.

One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen, can change the world. – Malala Yousafzai

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. – Aristotle

For every year a child goes to school, HIV rates decrease, income potential and employment rates increase, girls marry later, early pregnancies decrease, and health is elevated for the entire family.

If you think you’re too small to make a difference, you haven’t spent a night with a mosquito. – African Proverb

EDUCATION yields a larger impact than ANY other form of help or aid we can give to improving health, raising income, promoting gender equality, and reducing overall poverty.

In Cameroon there is only one teacher for every 45.6 primary school students. In SECONDARY SCHOOL the number increases to nearly 100 STUDENTS PER TEACHER.

Secondary school in Cameroon is not mandatory resulting in a large gap between school capacity and the number of potential students. You can help change that!

The highest result of education is tolerance. – Helen Keller

Textbooks for a Year

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