What we do

Building Schools |  Feeding Pupils |  Training Teachers

The Savannah Education Trust provides an education for some of the poorest children in West Africa through the provision of Christian primary schools in northern Ghana.

Why? In communities as poor as these, the purpose of education is not necessarily to improve job opportunities but (over time) to improve the quality of life. The education is focused both on traditional subjects like literacy, as well as on practical skills like hygiene and farming. Research shows that a primary education has a direct benefit on crop yields in subsistence farming. The rate of children surviving childhood and infancy increases dramatically when the mother has received even a basic education.

We have three connected programmes: building schools, feeding pupils and training teachers.