• As a novel branch of ‘The Wishing Well Company’, the organization has launched The Wishing Well Foundation Scholarship Fund aiming towards providing full ride scholarships to financially troubled African Youth. By providing academic scholarships to those in need, we allow others to pursue higher level education that would have been unfeasible for them due to their varying circumstances
• Through this scholarship fund, the goal is to break the limitations and financial barriers placed on children from a young age; unleashing the true potential of our youth and allow them to dream unapologetically. Let us collectively invest in the future of others to the same degree we would want others to invest in us. Together we will let the dreams of these children leave the bedside and manifest into reality—building a future filled with more doctors, engineers, dentists, nurses, and other amazing careers. Investing in a brighter group of youth means investing in a brighter future for us all.
• Our history: The Wishing Well Company was initially created with the goal of increasing clean and accessible drinking water sources by building water wells in the rural regions of Africa. This effort contributed directly to aiding the water crisis in Africa while also indirectly contributing to women empowerment, and education. This is because the lack of water in regions is responsible for pulling 1 in 5 girls and 1 in 6 boys from primary schools. By reducing the need for children to collect water for their families by building accessible water wells, we have previously aided indirectly in keeping children in school. The Wishing Well Foundation plans on launching September 2021 and expects an immediate positive impact on the future of our bright children— this time directly contributing to the education of children by providing full ride scholarships to those who are financially troubled within Africa. 

Empowering the future by empowering kids. Youth in third world countries are preoccupied with other struggles to the extent where something as little as having a future beyond their hardships does not come to mind, and when it does the resources available to do so are insufficient. Global leaders around the world plan for the future of their countries while also neglecting the youth of their societies. How does this make sense? How does one neglect the future generation and make plans for the future of their countries development. The youth are the future and in order for the countries to be uplifted out of their current states, we must invest in them.

Let’s discuss the situation of children’s right to education around the world. In general, education still remains a fairly inaccessible right for millions of children worldwide. As it stands, greater than 72 million children of primary education age are not present in school and about 759 million adults are illiterate; lacking the awareness to better their own living conditions and the living conditions of their children. 

• A cause of the current lack of education in our youth today stems in many cases from the lasting inequalities and marginalizations. In developing countries of the world, youth lack access to both basic and higher level education due to sex-based inequalities, healthy and cultural identity including language, religion and ethnic origins. Factors associated with poverty like illness, unemployment and parent illiteracy, has only worked to increase likelihood of non-schooling and increase drop out rates by double. Unequivocally, such backgrounds children carry with them only further work to force them out of educational environments to care for underlying issues related to health issues like malnutrition, or simply to provide for their family’s needs. 

• Due to marginalization and poverty, there are greater than 72 million children worldwide that remain out of school.
• More surprising, sub-Saharan Africa is the most affected region in the world, whereby greater than 32 million children of primary school age are ‘uneducated’. Furthermore, in the same region, over 12 million girls are at high risk of not even receiving an education in their lifetime.

Donate today or create a fundraiser to sponsor a child’s higher education fund! Together we can brighten the future in a world where now more than ever needs light. Let’s foster dreams, and an environment where all children are comfortable of dreaming big.