According to UNESCO figures, during the eleven year span from 1990-2001, total international aid for education fell by 16%. In an attempt to fill this growing global need for basic education, Edge-ucate works with local communities in some of the most underdeveloped countries in the world to build, open, and operate elementary schools. Building partnerships with schools and organizations within the United States, we bring the experience home to schools, community organizations, and corporations in America.

For the modest sum of around $4,000 a year, our schools can provide four daily classes for as many as 50 children, as well as supplying daily meals and school uniforms-often the only clothes these children will own. The curriculum consists of three core classes in English and Native language, and mathematics, while the fourth class is designed to reflect the needs of the community in which the school resides. For example: in project Nepal, where there exists a dire need for education on basic sanitation, hygiene, and nutrition, the fourth class will be Health and Fitness; in project Cambodia, where there remains as many as 10 million undetonated and buried land mines, the fourth class will be in Land Mine safety and Awareness.

By building partnerships within the American community, we seek to build structures that make long run sustainability for project schools a reality. For the modest sum of around $4,000 a year, a school, group, or business can adopt a project school in a foreign country. By running a fundraiser and supply drive, community members are brought together in the spirit of reaching out to a poor region halfway around the globe.