OUR TARGET KIDS
Around the world, many rural areas struggle with education, and children as young as 5-years old face dangerous journeys to school, which may include crossing ravines, using canoes, walking through swamps, hiking through jungles, climbing cliffs, zip-lining, or swinging over rivers while holding onto ropes. Because of these challenges, very few of these children complete more than 3-5 years of basic education, even fewer attend high school, and less than 1% make it to college.
In contrast to small villages that have groups of students using government-installed satellite dishes for remote lessons from nearby cities, The Schola Mia Foundation aims to provide and support individual kids with StarLink System in sparsely-populated areas with rough mountainous terrain, jungles, swamps, and large bodies of water.
Our target kids come from families that are hardworking, proud and self-reliant. They understand the importance of education and encourage their kids to go to school. Sadly, schools are scarce, and these kids must traverse dangerous landscape including: risky waterways, ravines, mountains, jungles, and swamps that children must cross to reach their schools, even when it’s only a mile away.
Being inventive, people in these small communities have worked together to set up zip-lines, build shaky footbridges, provide ropes for children to swing over dangerous waters, and create paths for kids to safely navigate steep ravines.
SMF will assure that kids with the riskiest routes to school will receive a basic education – in the safe environment of their home.
