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"Social and economic factors such as basic education, elementary health care, and secure employment are important not only on their own, but also for the role they can play in giving people the opportunity to approach the world with courage and freedom."
- Amartya Sen
Development as Freedom
 

"Our partnership with Mission Schools International will provide access to high quality education which is critical for us to achieve our ambitious goal of becoming a knowledge-based economy."

-Dr. Daphrose Gahakwa,  Minister of Education Rwanda 

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Building a Network of Schools in Africa

Mission Schools International (MSI) seeks to address the root of persistent poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa by building a network of secondary schools that combine:

  • exceptional education
  • basic healthcare
  •  proper nutrition

A healthy and educated workforce is critical to break the cycle of poverty and bring about sustainable growth in underdeveloped countries. However, there is often no access to education, or education is interrupted by preventable illness. MSI's comprehensive approach addresses these interrelated issues and creates the prerequisite conditions for communities to thrive.

Mission Schools will foster academic, spiritual, physical, and emotional development to provide each student with the academic and leadership training to matriculate to regional universities and become engines of growth in their home communities.

MSI has been working closely with the Rwandan government throughout the process of building its first school, which will open in January 2011 in Rwinkwavu, Rwanda.

 

Sub-Saharan Africa Profile

Adult Literacy Rate – 62%
Children Attending Secondary School – 21%
Population Living on Less
than $1/day – 46%
Children Involved in Child Labor – 37%
Life Expectancy at Birth – 46 years

 

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