Schools — Caravan to Class

We build and sustain schools in Mali to ensure all children have access to education.

Since 2010, Caravan to Class has been building and supporting 17 schools in rural villages around the fabled Timbuktu, ensuring that over 3,000 children can go to school.

We partner with the locally based Nord et Developpement to provide access to education and promote the importance of education. We commit to supporting each school after it is built. The Timbuktu Ministry of Education certifies every school we build as a public school, which means that they both integrate the academics of the school into the national Malian curriculum and provide a director to run the school.

No investment in a village is more important than education, which helps to bring hope for the future. Our model also focuses on supporting villages and schools in the following areas:

Paying the salaries of certified teachers
Providing basic nutritional meals at the school canteen, which helps incentivize parents to send their children to school
Furnishing school supplies
Providing uniforms
Implementing an Adult Literacy program which teaches basic literacy in local language to mothers, which helps them and their kids.

Nanga School Inauguration

Schools We’ve Built

"Caravan to Class helps assure a good education for all students, which guarantees a better future. I love to read… to read a book or a letter to my parents, who can't read… or simply to read information from some place far away."

Fadimata Walet, Tedeini School
“You came to my village last year (2014) and said you would build us a school. Now (2015) we see our school built. No one has ever done anything like that. All we hear are promises from our government, but your small US organization fulfilled such a big promise. We will never forget what you and your supporters have done for us.”

Samdiar Village Chief
“You have built us a school, that is not small thing. Our children take great pride in going to school. We see many children from other villages, without schools, are coming to our school. This also gives me and my wife pride.”

Tedeini Village Chief
“I am very happy today thanks to Caravan to Class and our new school. Every morning I wake up early to do my chores and quickly get to school on time. After my studies I would like to be a nurse in order to help my village.”

Ms. Zeynabou Souleymana, 11 years old, Kakondji Village

We build and sustain schools in Mali to ensure all children have access to education.

Nanga School Inauguration

Schools We’ve Built

"Caravan to Class helps assure a good education for all students, which guarantees a better future. I love to read… to read a book or a letter to my parents, who can't read… or simply to read information from some place far away."

“You have built us a school, that is not small thing. Our children take great pride in going to school. We see many children from other villages, without schools, are coming to our school. This also gives me and my wife pride.”

“I am very happy today thanks to Caravan to Class and our new school. Every morning I wake up early to do my chores and quickly get to school on time. After my studies I would like to be a nurse in order to help my village.”