ACTION DAY 2008
Poverty Reduction

Direct Aid
relief and development work
in Africa since 1981
direct-aid.org

Five ways to
reduce
poverty
Poverty Fund
Harvest Fund
Farmers’ Project
Women’s Training Program
Education

40 MILLION CHILDREN NOT IN SCHOOL
NO SCHOOLS AVAILABLE

THE NEED FOR PROPER EDUCATION
POORLY EQUIPPED

TOO YOUNG FOR WORK
WITH EDUCATION, THEY WILL BE PREPARED

“WE WILL BE HAPPIER IF WE CAN GO TO SCHOOL”
HELP THEM REALIZE THEIR DREAMS

LET’S BRING THEM TO SCHOOL
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THEIR LIFE

VOCATIONAL TRAINING CENTER
A DIRECT AID PROJECT IN NIGER

VOCATIONAL TRAINING & EDUCATION FOR WOMEN
SEWING, MEDICINE, COOKING, TEACHING...

Poor, uneducated.

Educated & Independent

“Education can be the difference
between a life of grinding poverty and
the potential for a full and secure
one...between countries ripped apart by
poverty and conflict, and access to
secure and sustainable development.”
Nelson Mandela

Taking Action
Starting Today.

Our Strategic Goals
• Educate:
- 80,000 elementary and middle school
- 60,000 high school
- 20,000 vocational practices
- 2,400 college level
- 2,000 higher education

Our Strategic Goals
• Launch:
- 30 Distance Learning institutions
- 3 universities: East, West, and Central Africa

Educate
171,600
Students

$750 per student
for 4 years of education

only $2 a day

THE FUTURE OF AFRICA

09.09.09
Project Launch Date

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HOW YOU CAN HELP

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“If you are planning for a year,
sow rice; if you are planning for
a decade, plant trees; if you are
planning for a lifetime, educate
people.”
Chinese Proverb

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