"IFESH is addressing profound educational and developmental gaps on the African continent through grassroots efforts that engage people at every level of society from families, communities, development practitioners and policymakers."
This website was prepared with funds provided by the International Foundation for Education and Self-Help as grantee to the United States Agency for International Development under cooperative agreement number RLA-A-A-00-03-00010-00.
On August 17 – 22, over forty educators from around the U.S. gathered in Phoenix Arizona prior to their departure for sub-Saharan Africa. They volunteered to take part in an International Educators for Africa program, which began 17 years ago.
... "Julie's own journey to Africa began when she was just 15 years old. Her family accompanied her dad on one of his many trips, and they attended a church service in Ghana. Julie arrived in her Sunday best, pressed clothes and clean shoes, and came face-to-face with an African girl in a tattered dress and bare feet." ...
Pauline Landrigan set out to make a difference in the educational system in the cocoa growing communities of Ghana, in West Africa. She did just that after being selected to participate in the IFESH Educators for Africa (IEFA) program as a World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) Fellow in 2005. 
Julie H. Sullivan, Ph.D., President and CEO of the International Foundation for Education and Self-Help (IFESH), was presented the Yunus Humanitarian Award at the Millennium Development Goals 2008 Micro for Macro Summit.
