GOAL

Education in an impoverished land.

We are dedicated to helping educate the people of Tobati, Paraguay. Tobatí is both a town and a provincial district with a population of 21,315 of which 16,538 (75.5%) are under the age of 19.  More than 70 percent of Tobati’s people live on less than $2 a day. We aim to improve the learning environment through the improvement of the current facilities, the construction of new facilities, and the hiring and training of staff to improve literacy in the community.

PROBLEM

School needs funding to build classrooms.

Nine different rural grade schools in the district of Tobati have inadequate classroom capacity, and are in need of extra space, desks and chalkboards.

SOLUTION

Team Tobati XL

The team, made up of students and alumni from Kingswood Oxford High School, will be in Tobati building additional classroom space for Escuela Basica 3906 “Maestra Telma Salvioni de Cabriza” in the poor rural village of Mompox, Tobatí. This school currently runs through the 6th grade.  Students upon finishing the 6th grade are forced to walk over a half hour to the nearest middle school. Primarily because of this, less than 10 percent of the Mompox students continue their education after the 6th grade.  The additional classroom space will allow the school to offer a 7th grade this year—and an 8th grade next year.

WHAT THEY NEED

• Staffing the Macchi Education center with teachers and other professionals, $38,400
  
• Staffing El Centro de Salud with pediatricians, gynecologists, and other medical professionals.
  
• Supplying new computers and other technological advancements at the Macchi Education center, a center dedicated to offering free educational opportunities to the region’s poor youth, $10,000
  
• The construction of a classroom at a small grade school in a rural village in Tobati, $3,500  (The team will be constructing classrooms at 9 different rural schools in the district of Tobati.)
  
• Providing free medication to poor families during free clinics, $3,000
  
• Handing out thousands of pamphlets on public health, toothbrushes, and soccer balls at all the schools in the district of Tobati, $5,000
  
• Structural improvements at artisan collective, $1,500
  
• Powdered milk programs at rural schools, $2,500
  
• Construction of a community development center in the poor rural community of Mompox, Tobati, $4,000
  
• Uniforms and supplies for grass-root organizing concerning healthcare issues, $500

WHAT THEY'VE ACCOMPLISHED WITH YOUR HELP

Posterus Funds Macchi Library Expansion

Financial Report 1 (PDF)
Financial Report 2 (PDF)
Financial Report 3 (PDF)

GOAL

Education and Healthcare in a war-ravaged country.

Our target is to provide a nurturing, education-focused environment for the civil war orphans of the small village of Kiliba.  They have emerged in a new place of peace and reconstruction.  Let us give them a Future.

Read more about the conflict in the Congo here: http://www.globalissues.org/Geopolitics/Africa/DRC.asp

PROBLEM

School destroyed

Farm of Hope is struggling to meet the needs of these children.  A majority of the makeshift schoolhouse was destroyed by adverse weather conditions, and now many of the orphans have been forced to study under the protection of only trees.

SOLUTION

Rebuild school. Start sustainable food and healthcare programs.

The Farm of Hope, run by Floribert Kazingufu (Flory) is seeking to build a schoolhouse and sustainable food and healthcare program. Plans include six classrooms, a clinic, a kitchen, a technical skills center for older children and administrative rooms for teachers and management.  Thus far, volunteers have compiled a budget for the first installment of three classrooms.

WHAT THEY'VE ACCOMPLISHED WITH YOUR HELP

Posterus Funds Health and Food Programs at the FOH.

See the Financial Report (PDF)

Submit your funding proposal to Posterus Today!

The Posterus Foundation takes community development seriously. We are always looking for new opportunities to expand our funding reach. If you are involved with a local socioeconomic development initiative that promotes community education, job growth or general health and have a specific project that needs funding, please complete our Funding Proposal Template and email to action@posterus.org.