Raise Up the Roof Foundation

Objective: Provide educational infrastructure support for economically disadvantaged students; particularly those students from the hinterland and villages. Provided: 5 desktop computers, 26 laptop computers, printers, and 85 electronic notebooks; various books, writing boards, seats, tables, shelves, library desks, library supplies, science laboratory supplies, school furniture, construction of restrooms and recreational facilities, fans, lighting, painting, electricity, sports wear, sports equipment, and marching band supplies; related installation and transportation. Benefitted: 5 High schools from educational program (630 students); 1 High school from sports program (86 students); 1 High school from the restrooms program (203 students); 1 Nursery school from recreational facilities program (125 students); 1 Primary school from the marching band program (186 students).

Objective: Provide social and humanitarian outreach to underprivileged for housing, food, clothing, living necessities, counseling, and including Christmas outreach. Provided and Benefitted: Housing and related necessity costs for economically disadvantaged (42 persons benefitted). Economic outreach to the less privileged for food and basic necessities (approximately 200 benefitted). Food supplies for the poor in the hinterland (approximately 200 benefitted) and Christmas disadvantaged children's outreach (approximately 1,000 benefitted).

Objective: Provide basic education costs, skills training, and necessary related equipment to underprivileged individuals. Provided and Benefitted: Basic tuition costs for primary school students (33 benefitted including 5 disabled), empowering less privileged with skills training for crafts and trades = 5 individuals for catering school, 7 individuals for fashion and designing, and 10 individuals for hairdressing. Outreach to vocational rehabilitation center for physically disabled (approximately 140 persons benefitted). Complete training and empowerment on the cassava processing mill (10 individuals directly benefitted, many others indirectly benefitted). Purchase of 10 cassava machines along with installation and related transportation of the machines.

Provide educational full scholarships to three disabled individuals to attend a special school for the disabled. Provided educational scholarships for intellectually deserving economically underprivileged students (approximately 24 students) in primary school, junior high school, and high school.

Provide support payments and, or full hospital payments for eight stranded or indigent patients. Provide support payments and, or full hospital payments for three orthopedic, economically underprivileged patients. Provide financial support for an artificial leg for a patient involved in a fatal motor vehicle accident.