EDUCATION

Tsilulu is only nine and lives in a dilapidated shack. While other kids are in school, he toils crushing stones for work. BE Education to help kids like Tsilulu.

BE EDUCATION. BE Education to help give children a life-changing education and a new hope for the future.

Your Choice:

Dedicate your Famine to Education and you will help build new schools and classrooms in North Sudan and train teachers in Indonesia to give children an equal opportunity to learn.

Your Impact

By dedicating your Famine to Education you will help give a quality education to thousands of children and help:

  • Build 20 new classrooms, renovate 4 classrooms and build 6 offices for teachers.
  • Buy new desks and install solar-powered lighting to improve school attendance.
  • Build a water reservoir, hand-washing facilities and new bathrooms at each school.
  • Give uniforms and school supplies to 350 girls in Umzeifa.
  • Train 33 teachers.
  • Help 33 parents create a school committee and 21 community members create a Child Protection Committee.

On education:

“Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.”

Kofi Annan
Former Secretary-General of the
United Nations

Other Causes. With 30 Hour Famine you get the opportunity to choose HOW you will support those in need! Choose a Causes. Rally your team. BE THE difference.

The drought in the Horn of Africa is the most severe food security emergency in the world today. More than 13 million people's lives are threatened.  BE Food to help fight the famine in the Horn of Africa and protect families from future food shortages.

1 in 6 children around the world are forced into child labour and girls as young as 13 are being trafficked as "mail-order brides".  BE Safety to help rehabilitate traumatized children by providing counselling, education, opportunities and, most importantly, hope.

1 in 8 people don't have access to safe drinking . 1.4 million children die every year from diseases caused by unclean water. BE Water to help bring secure wells and pumps closer to the people in need of safe drinking water