Archives: Schools

Catalyzing change through media. In 2014, the Lewis Family Foundation underwrote the establishment of the Conservation Media Group, a nonprofit organization that is building capacity for the use of video to create action in conservation, with a focus on ocean health and sustainable energy. Their Catalyst Workshops bring dozens of organizations and media makers together at… Read more »

The small community of Tin Keo makes its humble living by farming rice, corn, and bananas, tending livestock, and weaving. To help support the community’s basic needs, Grand Circle Foundation funded community toilets, a water well, water tank and reservoir, and paved a sidewalk.  But we realized we needed to help the village become more… Read more »

Located in the foothills of the Annapurnas, access to Majgaon village is by climbing rocky, and often slippery slopes. Our first project was to repair the stone steps and add railings, enhancing the safety of the villagers here. We later established a community washing area to help villagers prevent food born illnesses and purchased an… Read more »

Located in a remote village in Sinaloa Mexico, approximately 100 Mayo Indian students ages 6 – 12 years attend 1st thru 6th grade at the Josefa Ortiz de Dominguez Primary School. The school’s bathrooms were very old and in disrepair when Grand Circle first came here. Funds from the foundation helped build 4 new bathrooms… Read more »

Tin Keo school has been supported by Grand Circle Foundation since 2012. The school has grown in that time and with the foundation’s support, now has electricity, a computer room and library.  We also renovated the classrooms with new paint, ceilings, fans and a building roof and purchased new desks, chairs and blackboards. An equally… Read more »

18 children between 5-8 years old are educated by one teacher in one room at the Nonsaath Primary School. The students are from 46 local families, 250 people from 3 main ethnic groups. The first project Grand Circle Foundation funded was the construction of toilets, as part of our WASH (Water, and Sanitation, Hygiene) initiative… Read more »

Grand Circle Foundation funded the construction of 2 classrooms to create the Ngamo Secondary School. For children finishing at Ngamo Primary School the only possibility to continue on to secondary was too far to be an option.  For 23 students secondary school became a reality. Clean fresh running water is an absolute luxury in the… Read more »

The Lemong’o Primary School was started in 1991 under a tree and the school buildings were not completed until 2013. When Grand Circle Foundation began supporting the school in 2014, the school was in desperate need for all the basics to provide an education. Typically the school receives about $195 annually from the government to… Read more »

There is no escaping the hardships that school children in remote rural areas of Africa must endure but in spite of these hardships, a boundless school spirit burns brightly, and enthusiasm rings louder than the steel gong that brings an end to the day. To help these students and their teachers in Zimbabwe, Grand Circle… Read more »

Masaai are among the best known local populations in Kenya due to their residence near Amboseli National Park,  and their distinctive customs and dress. The Kenyan government instituted programs to encourage the Maasai to abandon their traditional semi-nomadic lifestyle, but the people have continued their age-old customs. Grand Circle Foundation has supported this tribe by funding water… Read more »