Let’s get to work: Ways you can help.
Reading Room Initiative
Please Support Us As We Construct Our Reading Room
In an effort to reach those who are in need of such resources in remote locations and villages, we have committed ourselves to the humbling challenge of building and providing mobile reading rooms and libraries in remote locations and villages. In doing so, children will have a place to go to for homework assistance, engage in collaborative thinking, as well as have a space for their academic minds to be nourished.
Although many nations object to child labor, many third world countries believe it is an acceptable and necessary way of life and unfortunately young children are at an all-time high in these horrifying situations.
This is why having a safe place to go after school hours is vital to their future. Unfortunately, too much unstructured time can cause kids to neglect a focus their school-related obligations. Unproductive, unhealthy, or even dangerous behaviors can materialize seemingly out of thin air. Having a place to go before and after school can help mitigate the tendency towards inertia and provide kids with a positive, character-building use of their time.
Joyful Hands reding rooms:
- Provide academic support
- Provide safety and supervision
- Create a sense of belonging
- Improve social skills
- Make learning more fun
School Supplies Initiative
Domestic Assistance:
In addition to our international work, we’re also focusing on youth right here in the DMV. There is a misconception that everyone benefits from the wealth accumulated in the area. However, there are many pockets in areas like DC and Region 1 of Fairfax County, where there are many families living far below the poverty line. Our goal is to also assist youth in the area by providing school supplies.
By having access to basic educational materials of their own, children can improve grades, creativity, attitudes towards learning, behavior, peer relationships and self-image. Education is the first step to overcoming poverty. A single pack of pencils and paper could be the gateway to a bright promising career/future.
We are aiming to raise funds and seek in-kind-donations (materials) to serve children within the Region 1 housing communities within the DMV. Children, of all ages, and in all countries, are being affected, in particular by the socio-economic impacts and, in some cases, by mitigation measures that may inadvertently do more harm than good. This is why as an organization; we have vowed to assist those that are in need of retuning back to school with scholastic assistance.
We are asking for your help so that we can continue assisting communities and children in need, and improve the overall narrative of the importance of education.
International Assistance:
Thousands of students in sub-Saharan Africa and around the world don’t have access to school supplies and textbooks. Providing one textbook to every student in a classroom increases literacy significantly.
Without the necessary school supplies, bright young minds lack the quality of education that they need to thrive academically. Too many young people with high potential turn to destructive rather than constructive paths for themselves and their community.
Our Solution
When struggling schools work hard with what little is available to them, we step in to help. By offering basic tools of education to schools, we improve access to quality education for the future leaders.
You can help - donate school supplies today for children.
What do our schools need?
As you might imagine our beneficiary schools would greatly appreciate any assistance, below we provided a listed of the most requested items to help provide some guidance.
- Solar lights for use by children when studying.
- Backpack and other book bags
- Notebooks
- Ruler (English or metric measurements)
- Pencils, erasers, and pencil sharpeners, Chalk
- Calculators
- Netbooks / Laptops / Kindles / iPads / eReaders
- Colored pencils, crayons, and markers
- Pencil boxes/cases
- Graph paper
- Pens
- Pocket dictionaries
- Reusable water bottles
- Reams or boxes of paper
- Miscellaneous arts and craft items
- Science equipment
- Drawstring bags
Donate Conference Bags / Event Bags / Organization or Company Bags or Backpacks. Do you or any one you know had conference or event bags that you would like to donate to a great cause?
Or do you have “branded” bags (bags with your organization's brand name) that you would like to donate? This could be because of a printing error or a change in the company branding/logo. We warmly accept branded bags that will be distributed free to kids.
Tuition Assistance Initiative
School fees are a major barrier to widespread, effective education in Africa and around the world. Many children in impoverished families simply cannot afford to pay the required fees to attend school. As a result, they never receive a proper education.
Sponsor a child through our tuition sponsorship initiative.
Our beneficiary schools such as Bweh-Kaetae Academy located in Monrovia; Liberia are currently having 500 students enrolled in the academy. You can assist these students with a monthly or year tuition contribution.
Sponsor a child: What is child sponsorship
Sponsoring a child is a wonderful way to help change the life of a child in need and bring hope to his or her entire community. By becoming a sponsor, you will provide desperately needed opportunities to children with incredible potential. In addition, you will be making a personal investment, building a relationship with your beneficiary and his or her family,
Current annual school fees are listed below:
- Kindergarten: $80 USD
- Grade 1-6: $100 USD
- Grade 7-9 $125 USD
- Choose:Select one of the children waiting for your sponsorship from our child sponsorship platform.
- Click: When you push the “Sponsor Today” button you are presented with a short form.
- Respond: You will receive an email with instructions for payment / or sign up for payment through the site immediately.
How to sponsor a child through Joyful Hands and how does sponsorship work. Below are steps as to how you can get involved.
By sponsoring a child, you join a family of "life-givers" around the world who share your commitment to change the world, one child at a time.
Child sponsorship is one of the best ways for you to impact or change a child’s life.
As a sponsor, what will I receive throughout the year?
Child sponsorship is a great way to connect with a child and help make a difference. You will receive photos and exchange letters. This provides a great opportunity for you to build a relationship with the child you are sponsoring. Kids and sponsors learn about each other, exchange letters, videos, and share their lives.
ShapeOnce we receive your first monthly gift, we will send you a sponsorship package by email or hard-copy upon request) which will include a photo and profile of your child, the child’s country etc. You can also expect to receive handwritten notes from the child, photos, scanned copies of the child's grade/report card, and reports on the child's overall well-being.