The Lambaye Learning Center
10 Years in the making… Now Open
Over $40,000 Raised Enabling Us To Sustainably Fund the Learning Center and Install Solar Power This Year!
SeneGALA 2025
The Lambaye Innovation Challenge
The Lambaye Innovation Challenge increases accesses to STEAM education in rural Senegal
The Grand Opening
Over 2,000 people and 45 U.S. high school students attended the grand opening in February, 2020.
Connecting Across Cultures
Read the incredible stories from students who traveled 4,000 miles to visited Senegal and who formed friendships that transcended history and culture.
Our Mission:
Empower.
We build community centers in Senegal to empower women and girls, expand access to education, and foster opportunity by providing resources and promoting the exchange of culture and ideas.
What We Do
We are building learning centers in Senegal to expand acess to education.
Who We Are
From our beginnings as a 5 member school club, we have always stayed true to our founding. We are students, educators, community members, villagers, architects and government leaders.
Our Impact
Since starting in 2009 as a small high school club meeting weekly at lunch, we have been transformed into an international NGO that has raised over $750,000 for students in Senegal. We built and now operate the Lambaye Learning Center, a 4,000 sq. ft. state of the art Library-Community center that has transformed education and promoted gender equality for the 30,000 inhabitants of Lambaye, Senegal.
Through our other programs we have also supplied school supplies, sports equipment and funded scholarships so that all students in Lambaye can receive and education.
The Numbers
27% -> 86%
girls literacy rate
In 2011 our first survey showed the literacy rate for girls age 14-18 was 27% in Lambaye, on our last one in 2024 it was 86%
9% -> 91%
computer access
Before the Learning Center opened, less than 9% of middle and high school students had regular access to a computer in Lambaye, 91% use one at least once per month at the center
74 + 23
preschool & Job training
Since starting, 74 children who have attended preschool at the Learning Center and 23 women have completed job training programs
Take Action
Get involved and take action today! Whether its by signing up for emails, volunteering at one of our events or making a donation, each of you can contribute in your own way to our cause.
Sign Up For Emails
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Volunteer opportunities
We always need volunteers to help us run events, collect supplies and support our programs.
Make a Donation
The best way you can support us is by making a donation today. Your gift will go to directly benefit the people of Senegal.