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Education is the Key to Freedom
Above: Sunset view from top of 30 ft. termite mound on Myrt School campus in Congo.

Able & Willing International Educational Foundation (AWIEF) is a grassroots nonprofit organization dedicated to establishing schools in areas of extreme poverty and need.  

The entirely volunteer staff coordinates physical construction of buildings and manages program development to ensure that schools can ultimately govern and sustain themselves.

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  Notable Accomplishments

  • Since its establishment in 1995, AWIEF has concentrated its efforts in rural villages of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa.
  • We have built one of the best schools in the Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
  • The school provides elementary through technical education in a village that had no electricity, toilets, or sanitary water supply previous to our arrival.
  • With tuition at $7.00 per month, a basic education is within reach for a typical local family.
  • We provide free tuition for orphans and a Work-for- Education program for parents who cannot afford their children’s tuition.
  • Fully equipped school workshops make furniture for other schools.
  • We even have a computer lab powered partially by a windmill!
  • We have shipped over 300 computers to schools in Congo, Cameroon, Nicaragua, Liberia, and Kenya. 
  • We are continuing to build schools in other villages in Congo that are self supporting and self governing.
  • How did we do it? It took fourteen years of dedication, trial and error, technical innovation, the hard work of parents and students, and the generous contributions from our many friends.

Most Recent Project

A school in Poleni Village, Democratic Republic of Congo.

2008 school project in Poleni village

In July 2008 school construction started in Poleni village, Katanga region, Democratic Republic of Congo.

First classrooms in Poleni village completed in 2008

In November 2008, classrooms for 1st and 2nd grades were completed in Poleni village.

The full story is in our Newsletter for Fall/Winter 2008. See our Newsletters section.