So They Can´s mission is to work together with communities in Africa to educate and empower, so they can break the poverty cycle, realise their own potential and meet their own needs.
We are a not for profit organisation registered in Australia, New Zealand, Kenya and Tanzania and soon to be registered in the United States.
Education is at the core of everything we do.
Since inception we have chosen to partner with local communities and with local and national governments in Kenya and Tanzania in implementing our education strategies. This ensures our model is sustainable and we are meeting the critical needs of the communities we partner with.
We focus our efforts and funds on providing quality education to children and adults, specifically women, to increase the number of students who graduate from high school and can seek further education or employment. This in turn grows the economy and breaks the cycle of poverty.
We are committed to supporting economic development in these communities by identifying social business opportunities, ensuring the sustainability of our education strategies. These businesses have a dual purpose. They benefit the community by creating jobs and they generate funds to help support our education projects.
Currently we:
- educate over 700 children at Aberdare Ranges Primary School in Nakuru, Kenya (there will be 1080 students by 2017)
- provide a nurturing home for 120 orphaned and vulnerable children at the Holding Hands Children´s Home
- educate and provide loans to women facing extreme poverty through our Micro Finance Business School
- support a community medical centre that services the wider Nakuru community of 20,000
- are establishing a Teachers´ Training College in a remote rural part of Tanzania which will open in the second half of 2014
- have formed an educational collaborative with 9 schools in Tanzania providing access to better education for over 6,500 children
- work together with local communities to establish numerous social businesses to create jobs and generate funds
