Transforming Lives Through Education

In 2000 nearly a third of primary age children in Africa were out of school due to challenges including lack of schools, poverty, remoteness, HIV/AIDS, armed conflict, disabilities, and gender discrimination.  These are things that children cannot fix.

The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) with the help of DKG has been working to change that. As a supporter of UNICEF’s Schools for Africa program, DKG has worked to improve early childhood development, access and retention to quality primary and secondary education, HIV prevention in schools and to provide education in an emergency.  These efforts have contributed a major impact between 1999-2012 with the percentage of children enrolled in education programs nearly doubling as did primary school attendance.  In 2019, the percentage of out of school children in Africa at the primary school age was down to 17 percent.

We all know that for a child to be successful in school, that child has basic needs that need to be met. They need good nutrition, safe drinking water, medical care and immunizations, and safety.  Then they need a school building, caring and qualified teachers, and resources to learn.  UNICEF and DKG are committed to helping governments, communities, and community leaders to provide all of that for the children of Africa.

We are all teachers who know the value of an education.  For the children of Africa having an education means opportunity just as it does in the rest of the world.  Give a child an education and you transform him and the world he lives in. Your caring gifts to UNICEF can have a huge impact on the world.