DENIED AN EDUCATION THROUGH NO FAULT OF THEIR OWN
Poverty, dysfunctional family life, abuse, malnutrition, death of parents, and abandonment put many children around the world at risk. Such children are powerless to alter their exposure to these life hazards and have difficulty in getting access to basic education, fail to succeed in their schooling or drop out of school prematurely.
OSWW has developed a “School-in-a-Bag” to help these children learn. The “bag” includes teachers’ guides, audio materials and teaching equipment, children’s workbooks, lapdesks, and a wind-up MP3 player or radio. We train and support volunteers who go to these children regularly and teach basic mathematics, literacy and life-skills. Classes are meeting under a tree, in the shelter of a shack, at a market stall, or on the edge of a dump!
Using the School-in-a-Bag we are bringing hope and education to street children, orphans, working children and child-headed families.
See how students are actually renting their desks for a day so that children in Africa can have a desk of their own 
Join us in lifting up needs of Open Schools Worldwide as well as those of specific African classrooms and children. And, share our praises for many wonderful things that are happening.