renewal
Education
Helping children and young people reach a classroom, stay in it, and leave with real options for their future.
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Where we serve
West Africa
Growing young populations, and too few routes into work
Overview
Our work in West Africa
Our partners here serve communities with very young populations and very limited routes from school into paid work.
Vocational training, small enterprise support and maternal health run alongside the discipleship and leadership formation that partner churches ask for most often.
The context shaping this work
- A large cohort of young people leaving school without a trade.
- Seasonal migration separating families for months at a time.
- Health facilities that exist but lack equipment and staff.
Ministry areas
Most active in West Africa
Every region carries all three of our commitments; these are the ministries that dominate here.
renewal
Economic Empowerment
Savings groups, training and small enterprise support that let households build their own income.
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relief
Health & Wellbeing
Community-level health care, prevention and wellbeing support, close to where people actually live.
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restoration
Church & Community Partnerships
Everything we do runs through local churches and community leaders who were there before us and will remain after.
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Pray for West Africa
These requests come from partner communities in this region. Our prayer team receives them as they arrive, including urgent ones.
Join the prayer teamYoung people finishing training
A cohort of trainees is coming to the end of a vocational course. Pray for the mentoring that follows, and for work to be available where they live so they are not forced to migrate.
Mothers awaiting delivery
UrgentSeveral mothers in remote communities are approaching delivery with long journeys to the nearest facility. Pray for safe deliveries and for the transport arrangements to hold.
Elsewhere
Other regions
East Africa
Rural communities facing drought, displacement and rising food prices
- Water security and repair
- School access and feeding
- Savings and livestock
Southern Africa
Households carrying the weight of care for others
- Family and caregiver support
- School access
- Household food security
South Asia
Where exclusion, not scarcity, is the deepest problem
- Education for excluded children
- Safe water and sanitation
- Livelihoods and savings
“The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it.”
Support the work in this region
Gifts to where it is needed most let our partners direct funds to the greatest need across every region.