Build a School in Africa, a volunteer-run charitable organization

Schools we’ve built

Since 2005, we have returned to Mali each year, and started building a new school along with our partners from Save the Children. Visit the photos page to see the construction process. And please consider getting involved to help us make a sixth school possible in 2010!

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Mounkonkoro 2009

Judy Lorimer from Build a School in Africa visited Mali in November with our annual contribution to help build our 5^th school. Save the Children hosted a ceremony on November 18th to lay the first brick for a new elementary school in the village of Mounkonkoro. Our project this year was helped greatly by the Binnie family from Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Their two sons, Adam and Dylan, with their Dad Bill's support, raised $10,000 this summer. This donation, plus the $9,000 raised by Build a School In Africa, will provide about 2/3 of the funding for the new school building.

Mounkonkoro is a village northwest of Sikasso, populated by the members of the Senufo ethnic group. Last year Save the Children built one three-room school in the village, and this year we are adding 3 more classrooms, so they will have a complete primary school for grades 1 - 6. At the Binnie's request, the new school will be named for Christine Laidlaw.

Welcome to Mounkonkoro, site of our 5th school – in partnership with Save the Children and the Binnie family of Portsmouth, NH

Senufo Balafon players

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Diaka 2008

We built our fourth school, in the community of Diaka in the Kolondieba District, starting in Fall 2008. The cornerstone was laid on November 16th, 2008, and it was finished by mid-February, 2009.