Our Projects
Each year the HOPE Project focuses its resources and efforts on a project that gives underprivileged and disabled children a chance to brighten their future.
In 2005, the HOPE Project embarked on an ambitious task—building a school for blind children in Vietnam. By year’s end, the HOPE Project secured the land for the school site, built the school and equipped it with meager resources and six Braille typewriters. Desks, computers and more Braille typewriters would soon follow.
Over the next few years, the HOPE Project will continue its efforts by working with children in developing nations of Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia.
The truth about children’s education worldwide
- 104 million children ages 6 to 11 do not attend school due to lack of resources. Nearly 40 percent of these children live in sub-Saharan Africa; 35 percent live in South Asia (UNESCO, 2003).
- An additional 150 million children are at risk of dropping out before they finish primary school.
- One third of all children, and one in two children living in Africa, never complete five years of primary school—the minimum length of education needed to achieve basic literacy.
- Sixty percent of school age girls living in Africa do not attend school.
- More than 140 million young people ages 15 to 24 are entering adulthood as illiterates.
- At least 86 developing countries are at risk of missing the goal of universal primary education by 2015.
- Of every dollar rich countries give in development assistance, only about two cents goes to basic education.
Source of statistics: www.campaignforeducationusa.org.