BRIDGE AFRICA FOUNDATION COMPANY
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Mission Statement
Our Key Goal is advocating quality in social and academic education for children in Africa. We are passionate about making quality education a priority by delivering tools to support learning curriculums. We revisited our programs, since the pandemic to refocus priorities. We have focused some more on less privileged children and schools in Africa. We work tirelessly to channel and redistribute a wealth of resources, tools and knowledge to schools in Africa to make quality in education a possibility. We do so by stepping in the gap where there is a shortfall in resources that will help children getting a meaningful education that will change their lives and in most cases get them out of poverty. We call it our opportunity gap. We forge collaborative partnerships with these schools and to help overcome the effects of poverty, we join hands with them through educational programs. These include: 1) Books to build literacy skills in reading, vocabulary, writing and science 2) School supplies, e.g. pens, chalk, whiteboards, exercise books 3) Social Emotional Learning, (SEL) workshops to improve school performances and train teachers in the new approach of educating the whole child. 4) Access to over 200 STEM activities 5) We introduced music lessons with "Rise with a Purpose", to offer lessons free. We are currently working in 10 African countries with direct access to over 100,000 children, through collaborative partnerships, in Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, Ghana, Sierra-Leone, Nigeria, and Gambia, and more.
About This Cause
Half of the population on the African continent are children. 74% are in poverty, vulnerable or come from a low income family. There is access only to the community schools, which struggle to sustain resources to achieve a quality education. BAF helps these schools achieve the quality they need to provide a meaningful education. It is easy to ask the question does the educational standard in Africa have any impact on the US, and it has no effect on me whatsoever. There is a moral to the story, that education is crucial as it is an investment in human capital. This yields tremendous benefits at many levels and spheres, including better health and wellbeing, higher social trust, greater political interest, lower political cynicism, and less hostile attitudes towards immigrants, have lower crime, including cyber crime, and more. We can only best describe our charity by what we have been doing so far in Africa. BAF forges collaborative partnerships with schools and educational organizations in Africa to help overcome the effects of poverty through the creation of educational programs shown below: 1) Books to build literacy skills in reading, vocabulary, writing and science 2) School supplies, e.g. pens, chalk, whiteboards, exercise books 3) Social Emotional Learning, (SEL) workshops to improve school performances and train teachers in the new approach of educating the whole child. 4) Access to over 200 STEM activities What Bridge Africa Foundation (BAF) has been doing so far inside Africa? see our blog/Gallery https://bridgeafricafoundation.org/our-blog/ https://bridgeafricafoundation.org/gallery/ Many children in Africa are either unable to attend school due to lack of basic supplies, such as books. At Bridge Africa we have supported schools by providing some of what children need, so they do not feel left out. We have also provided what the school needs to teach effectively. These included, school supplies – erasers, pens, pencils, notebooks, exercise books, scissors, are for students. Teaching supplies were sent to partner schools, helping them with much-needed items, like chalk, white boards, white board markers, teachers notebook, teachers guide books as recommended by the government, etc. Mandatory Books were also received by Welicar Educational Center in Kenya. Welicar also has access to licensed downloadable books, with discussion worksheets for teachers. This trains and guides the teachers on the right questions to ask. The downloadable books have also been made available to Gambia Teachers union, in Gambia, (responsible for up to 18,000 teachers and set up in 1937), - this is the comment from the Regional Chairperson and Principal of a School: “Thank you I have been through all the Grades and the books are very good because learners can improve their reading skills and the questions are well settled….Thank you so much for your tireless efforts”. We also have a presence in South Africa which we are looking to grow, and have partnered with Mercy Community School, Zambia who also received school supplies and stationary, and chalk boards for the school. Mercy community School, Zambia received and distributed school supplies donated by Bridge Africa - see Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/102575171934209/videos/267950504933661/ St Josephs Mixed Academy, Kenya, was able to benefit from mandatory school books. This books recommended by the government are becoming an affordable struggle. Some food supplies for school breakfast or lunch has also been another area we covered. Bridge Africa stepped in with some of our Partners to supply basic food. Some of these school Partners are unique, and a God send, as they sometimes provide the only substantive meal of the day for some of their students/children. Food is its own raw material, a means to an end. In the future, we will partner with organizations able to provide food in the long term, and have focused expertise and funding to supply meals in abundance. We want to put these schools on their radar. Bring them to the focus of the organizations that provide food supplies. Tenderfeet School, Kenya had school lunches from donation of maize from Bridge Africa Foundation. We do not normally engage in food supplies, but once in a while we devote one or two months to food supplies to help ease the financial purse of the school so monies can be used for other needs. We could not resist helping with food donations because we considered that "Having a child hungry in school negates the child’s ability to learn. It ties in with what the former US President, Eisenhower declared on July 8th, 1948 when he stood before the UN and spoke out against world hunger. He said, “when children are starving, how can we in the future expect them to be apostles of peace?” In our case, we chose to apply this saying to education and the classroom. If children are starving, how does the teacher expect to have peace in the classroom? Happy children make a happy teacher. Another way to describe our Charity is through the eyes of one of our partners, Etiquette Children's Organisation, in Uganda: "Etiquette Children’s Organisation (ECO) Uganda in partnership with Bridge Africa Foundation (BAF) U.S.A continues to empower and cause impact in the lives and behaviors of the children, youth, parents and teachers including opinion leaders in Tubur Sub County and Soroti city, in Uganda. ECO recently extended its Mental Health Management program supported by Bridge Africa Foundation, to district level to curb down mental illnesses during COVID 19 (Novel Coronavirus) period. This program is a follow-up to young adolescents and has attracted many audiences in Soroti. When we look at mental health skills practicing adolescents’ growing the way they are now and reasoning well with sound minds besides their being active in any thing they do when it even comes to domestic chores, it totally disagrees with the pandemic outcomes as it was quoted from one of the leaders. The author also goes on to talk about the story of a Campaign called, "Today as I talk, he said- “Today as I talk!, when you look at risky behaviors among ourselves and our own children, sexual harassment of girls by boys, and generally the peer (group) influence which has been rising from the first wave of the COVID 19 country lock-down; a broad frown fills your face!”. These figures have been rising because ECO and BAF school activities were at a halt due to closure of schools. Many children reduced to idling around and are at the verge of dropping out of school, become street children, or marry at an early age”. These were minimal before the incursion of COVID 19 pandemic because ECO and BAF program provided ample space for inclusion of girls and boys to interact in school environments which was always supported by parents and teachers. We greatly foresee ECO and BAF program as a tool in changing their behaviour when schools re-open. “Said Mr. Egudu Francis a Parish Chief Tubur Sub County, Mrs. Aguti Mary a Chairperson Women Council of Palaet Parish, Mrs. Alum Sarah Beatrice a headmistress Palaet P/S, Mrs. Olupot John a head teacher Abeko P/S, Mrs. Jane a teacher Abeko P/S, and Mr. Eroju Stephen a head teacher Chele P/S. Lasting Impression Paragraph: “As Ugandan nationals, we want ECO and BAF program to remain with us as it had started its program so that we do benefit too. We are just beginning to be involved in these activities and we are already feeling and seeing changes take place in our communities”. As quoted from one of the local leaders during community network meetings for teachers and community local leaders held in schools in August, 2021.