The Atena Foundation is building an all-girl school to support the country in its strive to achieve the SDGs with particular focus on Quality Education and Gender Equality (SDG #4 and SDG #5).
From the start, climate change and rapid urbanization, which creates new challenges for all of us, especially for poor communities, will influence the design. In response to these challenges this project incorporates sustainable construction techniques, solar energy, rainwater harvesting and composting latrines into the design. In addition, one hectare of the site has been reserved for gardens and self-sufficient food production.

The goal is to promote quality education and stimulate increase in school enrollment of girls, especially for vulnerable children by implementing strategies that will help to mitigate girls’ drop-out of schools, including training on agriculture for the mothers.

The pilot project - Npili School kindergarten is operational since October 2021. We need about US$ 100,000 to expand our school and increase number of students. We have girls transitioning to primary school but we don’t have infrastructure to accommodate them.