This year we lent our construction expertise and partnered with the Building Youth Around the World Foundation to build a teacher housing for the Nurturing Nations orphanage in Kofi Kwei. The orphanage already has a School and Safe House which provide a safe place for children of all abilities and economic backgrounds from the area to learn and grow.
A lack of quality housing discourages teachers from wanting to teach in rural areas as they have no place to house their families. A teachers housing allows quality teachers to be attracted and provides for long-term stability for the teachers and also the students they teach.
Empower Mali partnered with Building Youth Around the World to make the teacher housing a reality and to allow the orphanage in Kofi Kwei to keep quality teachers onsite.