HOPE for Senegal was founded in October 2011 to help with education, sustainability, and creativity projects in one of the 25 poorest nations in the world, Senegal. This campaign originally focused on helping Lycée Malick Sy High School, which has over 4,000 students, located in the Thies region of Senegal. Now HFS has grown to include projects across Senegal which directly supports individuals and communities. 

Lycee Malick Sy is one of the largest high schools in the West African nation of Senegal. It serves students from the country’s second largest city, Thies, as well as the surrounding villages and rural areas. Senegal is at a post-Colonial point in their growth where education can have a huge impact. This is one small place in the world where you can make a change right now. 

HOPE for Senegal has completed these goals: given over 300 scholarships and counting so girls could attend high school, provided 37 students with bikes to address transportation challenges getting to their school, brought the award winning JamLab team from Nairobi to train 50 students over the course of one week how to leverage social media for social good. Built a teacher resource room for the school’s 140+ teachers and equipped it with computers, printers, and a duplicating machine plus much more.