2023 was our first year of operations. We registered the KWES Foundation as a domestic nonprofit corporation in the State of Texas (USA) in May 2023. Later in the year we received a determination letter for the IRS that confirmed KWES Foundation as a Federal Income Tax-Exempt Organization under Section 501(c)(1) of the US tax […]
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January 2024 Updates
We thank our donors for giving generously over the New Year! Thanks to your gifts, we have been able to add 5 primary school children and 3 secondary school children to our 2024 educational program with YOD International in the Mukuru slum in Nairobi. In total we are now sponsoring 25 primary and 19 secondary […]
The State of Education In Sub-Saharan Africa
UNESCO reported[1] that in 2021 the number of primary school age children out-of-school was 67 million globally. More than half of these children were living in sub-Saharan Africa. In this region, 20% of all primary school age children, 33% of all lower secondary school age adolescents, and 48% of all upper secondary school age youth remain out of […]
Education as an International Development Priority
In our first post we will look at the international context of education development and reform. Education has long been a focus area of international cooperation. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted in 1948 defined education as a fundamental human right. The move for greater international cooperation in education began in 1990 with the […]