Build a School with Us in Africa
The Budapest-Bamako Rally, Africa’s largest charity road race is committed to building schools, digging wells and helping communities around West Africa.
Help us reach our goal to build a rural school in central Guinea-Bissau in 2012. This poor West African nation has a 60% illiteracy rate. This rate can be as high as 80-90% in rural areas. A village school can not only teach boys and girls elementary math and literacy skills, but can also save them from being day laborers, which is a common problem in this part of the world. In addition to building a school outside the town of Gabu, we’re planning on digging a well.
Be a part of this great project and help us change the world one school at a time.
The exact location of the school will be in the Gabu area of Guinea Bissau. The area near Gabu, in Eastern Guinea-Bissau is the poorest region of this country. Most of the population lives in small villages. Team Bright Eyed will be driving through and camping in this region.
When?
Fund raising began in the Summer of 2011. We aim to complete our fundraising efforts by February 2012 and perform the ground breaking ceremony for the school on January 28th, 2012. Construction will begin shortly thereafter and we’d like the school to open its doors in September 2012.
Why?
The mostly Fulani population lives in agricultural villages and lives off of subsistence farming and cattle herding. Most of the children work the fields or watch the animals 
from an early age. Access to schools is very limited. Most children never have the chance to go to school. The government is too weak and poor to provide schooling for these kids. Most Fulani children here never set foot in a school. Education is provided by missionary groups on an ad-hoc basis. A permanent school can improve lives of individuals and their communities.
Who?
Fundraising and project coordination is lead by the Organizing Committee Of The Budapest-Bamako Rally. Participants of this charity rally have built schools in Mali and dug wells in Mauritania and Mali in previous years. Construction is expected to be carried out under the supervision of the NGO, Tese which is the Portuguese affiliate of Engineers Without Borders. The operation and day to day management of the school once construction is complete will be performed by Brazilian and Hungarian missionaries performing volunteer work in the area.
Video
In previous years participants of the Budapest-Bamako humanitarian caravan have built schools, dug wells, organized educational programs to stop female genital mutilation, installed solar electricity systems and distributed thousands of malaria mosquito nets and bicycles to women.
Here are a few videos about the Budapest-Bamako accomplishments in Africa:
Kourmikoro School Project
Mauritania Well Project
Mosquito Net Project
Our Charity Truck Dashing Through The Sahara
Be a part of this great project and help us change the world one school at a time.
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