like this Sérère girl in a village near Mbour, your own children knew nothing about school, but the word SCHOOL itself?
Those children, symbols of both the beauty and the poverty of Sénégal, live a very difficult life, often not fed properly, wandering the streets and deserve all our attention and assistance. Do you believe, as we do, that these children have the same right as our children to a good education?

If your answer is yes, keep on reading and help us help them.

It is a frightening fact that decades of blaring disasters in Africa have hyper-sensitized the world to one kind of need –- alleviating the outright tragedies that hit us so often in succession. Hungry children stare out of appeal media and demand our priority.

But they face another kind of starvation, as grim as the first: starvation of the mind. If we do not feed the children’s minds as urgently as we feed their bodies, they can never make their way from a society of dependency to one of vibrant productivity.

Our goal is to give a chance to the poorest of these children and those who, for a number of social and economic reasons, have a limited access to quality education. Today, in Médine (a neighborhood of M'Bour, Sénégal), we have 450 students and no outside help other than the generosity which our supporters have demonstrated time and time again.

Our goals:

-First, increase our student enrollment and improve our supplies, while broadening our sponsorship program, providing the poorest children with the education they need and deserve.

-Second, develop an apprenticeship program, focused on the qualifications in demand, and offer our students a way forward after their equivalent of high school.

- Our facilities are very small. None of our classrooms have windows, some don't have a door or even a roof, and the sanitary conditions are terrible. A few pictures will show more than we could write here. We do not own these buildings and, unfortunately, the rent represents a large part of our small budget.

For this reason, we launched the 'One Brick, One School' initiative.

To help us build a new better and larger school, Buy a Brick!

- Because of our limited amount of space and obvious financial reasons, we can only accept a small number of children. Our students come from families so poor they cannot even afford the cost of public school. You can help these children by becoming a sponsor!

- Please help spread the word to your family and friends. We need to increase our base of support. The best way to obtain help and create awareness is often by word of mouth. We need more friends who will share the story of our school and the need for funding with their family, friends and coworkers. Please support us and the children by spreading the word about our project.Click here to become a friend of Avenir Plus!

The Avenir Plus Team