How would you help children in a village where one in four die before their 5th birthday?

The Savannah Education Trust provides an education for some of the poorest children in West Africa.

We work in Lawra District, northern Ghana, where most children do not have the possibility of attending school.  Yet education can help to ease the significant pressures faced everyday here: poor health, low crop yields and low life expectancy.

In October 2006 we opened our first Christian school in the village of Bagri. Now children like Mperismer are, for the first time, receiving an education as well as a free school meal each day.

The work of the charity has expanded to other villages with similar desperate needs.  Our strategy is based around three connected programmes: building schools, feeding pupils and training teachers.