About The Supply

Education for many of us is a given. We don't even think twice about advancing from primary school to secondary school. Our eyes are set on college degrees, graduate degrees, and any other letters that we can place at the end of our name.

But there's a world out there where secondary school is not even an option. We're not even talking about opportunity costs or economic trade-offs, but in some areas of the world, secondary schools just don't exist.

When we say some areas, we're talking about a place that holds 2 billion people worldwide. Slums are growing exponentially as 250,000 new children are born into slums each day. That's 250,000 more human beings subjected to the sub-human living conditions. Children in slums often play in gutters of human feces and their homes are built upon mounds of trash.

However, within these atrocious slums are children craving an education. Families making $1.50 a day are sacrificing large portions of their monthly income to send their children to school. They know that education is the long-term solution to their plight.

However, the supply of education does not meet their demand. But we can change this. We firmly believe that all of us who have had the fortunes of receiving an education are held accountable to be a part of the solution to one of the world's most complex problems. This starts with our staff, our organization, but stretches to all of you. If we can bring our financial, human, and social capital together, we can start seeing changes in these slums.

But it's not even just about what we can potentially do. We have asked slum children why they desperately want a secondary school education. They could have said, "I want to be rich" or "I want to live the good life." But they may have a better understanding of the purpose of education than we do: "I want to use my education to transform my community."

We want to make this dream a reality by equipping them with the tools necessary to satisfy their demand, fully knowing that they will use their education to become the supply to their communities. They are The Supply. You are The Supply.

We are all The Supply.