Kipako, Central Congo region, DR Congo: Tuzayana Sacré Coeur high school & ITC/Kipako middle school
- This was the organization's first scholarship program in 2019. The village of Kipako in the Bas-Congo province is a few hours drive from the DRC capital Kinshasa. The school has a few boarding students from Kinshasa, but mostly day students from local farmer families. Our scholarship program supports local students, whose families have difficulty affording the school tuition.
- 2020-2025: This program was less affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. We have expanded this project from 13 scholarships in 2020-2021 to 30 in 2025-2026.
- Our volunteers visit Kipako at least twice a year: before the start of the school year to evaluate the previous year's program and interview new scholarship candidates and their families, and after school begins to deliver the tuition money to the school. Our team also supplies the school with sanitary napkins for the girls and basic supplies for the school infirmary, which is dramatically understocked.
- Future goal: the needs are high in this extremely poor region (please visit our photo gallery page for a visual impression). We welcome donations, for the scholarship program, or for the sanitary napkins/infirmary project (please visit our donate page for more details).
Kampala, Uganda: St Peter high school and Crested middle school
- This scholarship program in a suburb of the Ugandan capital Kampala started in 2020, initially, helping 3 day-students (all girls, from DR Congo refugee families) with boarding tuition, so they could avoid the long and dangerous daily commute on foot along dark and unsafe roads.
- During the Covid-19 pandemic, ourscholarships were instrumental to keep these students in school, as the school was accepting only boarding students. When even the boarding school closed because of the pandemic, we supported private remedial classes for our scholarship recipients, so they could keep learning.
- 2020-2025: the program has grown from 3 to 9 students of this school system (mostly from DR Congo refugee families). In 2025-2026, for the first time, we have awarded scholarships to two post-secondary students: a health science student and a chemistry student. Way to go, girls!
- Future goal: we have built a very good relationship with the school administration, so this program is ready for expansion, as our funds permit. There are many candidates, especially in the Congolese refugee community.
Brazzaville, R. Congo: Les Elites 3D school, and professional schools
- Our organization has had a connection with Our Lady of Nazareth orphanage in Brazzaville since 2019. We support the tuition in primary and secondary school for the entire orphanage. Most of the children (21 in 2025) are enrolled in the neighborhood school.
- Future goal: like in Uganda, we would like to start scholarships for students who attend professional schools (currently: woodworking, tailoring, hairdressing). We are looking for donors willing to support one or more of these professional school students.
In progress: Kinshasa, private school
- This project started in 2025. Through a local intermediary, we granted a scholarship to a girl in a seamtress/tailoring training program in a Kinshasa suburb.
- Future goal: we would like to develop a connection with the neighborhood school(s), and build contacts with candidate students and their families, in order to expand this program on the model of our Kipako, DRC and Kampala, Uganda projects. Patience is needed. Sometimes, things can take a long time, especially in Africa. We are working on this project.