Your Contribution Will Make a Difference
Because we are entirely volunteer run, 100% of your donation will go toward building schools in Mali, West Africa.
Your can make an online donation to Build a School in Africa via Network for Good. Because we are entirely volunteer run, 100% of your donation will go toward building schools in Mali, West Africa.
If you prefer, you can also make a donation via PayPal:
To make a tax-deductible contribution send a check to:
Build a School in Africa
c/o Alice Heller, Treasurer
152 Ashfield Road
Williamsburg, MA 01096
Here are just a few of the items your donation can provide*:
| $10 | 1 sack of cement. A total of 700 sacks of cement are needed to make the concrete blocks used for the school building, latrines, and office/storeroom. |
| $25 | 2 kg of black slate paint for a classroom chalkboard |
| $21 | A chair for the teacher |
| $35 | Anti-rust paint for all the metal doors and windows |
| $30 | A 30 kg pail of interior paint |
| $32 | A teacher’s desk |
| $40 | A door for the latrines |
| $40 | A student desk & bench that seats 3-4 children |
| $60 | Shutters for one window |
| $75 | All the nuts and bolts for all the buildings |
| $86 | A classroom door or a cabinet for classroom materials |
| $800 | Steel Ɪ-beams to support the roof (8 x IPN 100, 5 x IPN 80) |
| $21,000 | Complete 3-room school, with boys and girls latrines and a teacher’s office / storage building |
| $600 | Solar lighting system, including a portable solar panel, battery, light fixture, and hardware |
* Prices in US dollars. Updated April 2025. Our actual costs to vary depending on the exchange rates, market costs, and transportation.
Host an Event!
You can help us build schools in Africa! Like the 7th grader in Rochester, NY who gave presentations at her school. Together, she and her classmates raised $1630.56! Or two teenagers from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, who raised $10,000 in one summer.
Consider hosting a bake sale, car wash, cocktail party… We’ve been incredibly fortunate to receive donations from schools, churches and individuals. Fund-raising ideas have ranged from spaghetti suppers to a young woman who ran a marathon and raised $1,000 in pledges from family, friends, and co-workers.
Our organization is volunteer-run, so whatever you donate goes 100% toward school construction. We are a registered nonprofit with the IRS and the State of Massachusetts, so donations to Build a School in Africa are tax deductible. If you’d like more information, you can download a printable brochure below, or contact us for information, photos, music, or a presentation.
Brochure (2-sided, 3-fold, with color photos; 250K PDF).