Now, more than ever, donations to help African single mothers are needed. When a single mother in East Africa receives a donation, she redistributes 90% to her family and those in urgent need. The #1 most common use for the remainder is self-education.

The UK Guardian has just published a study on the decline in aid to Sub-Saharan Africa:

Africa’s education efforts hampered by decline in western aid

• Jacob Zuma calls summit to highlight schooling crisis
• Long-term effects on sub-Saharan Africa’s economy likely
• Western donors have provided less than a fifth of $11bn pledged to universal primary education in 2000

“Broken aid promises by western governments are depriving millions of African children of promised school places, the United Nations has warned.

Ahead of a special education conference in South Africa on Sunday to coincide with the World Cup final, Unesco said a lack of money was hampering attempts to get 32 million children a place in the classroom.

Western donors said a decade ago that they would provide the finance to deliver universal primary education, but they have been contributing less than one fifth of the $11bn (£7.3bn) annual cost of meeting the pledge in the low-income countries of sub-Saharan Africa.”

“Donors have to come up with new finance and they need to act fast,” said Kevin Watkins, director of Unesco’s global monitoring report. “We are now just one primary-school generation away from a broken promise to Africa’s children.”

Data from Unesco released for the education summit showed that sub-Saharan Africa accounts for 45% of the children that do not go to school and that just one in three children are in secondary school – the world’s lowest level.

Unesco said more than a third of adults could not read or write.”

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