• Classrooms, books/libraries, science laboratories, computers and other basic educational materials are either totally non-existent or are grossly inadequate in most schools. Technical schools acutely lack relevant workshops and instructors. The few that may be available are often outdated texts and/or equipment;

• Education contents (curricula) and local, national and regional needs are often not blended;

• Teachers teach/children learn under trees, often under scorching heat/heavy rains and other hostile tropical weather conditions;

• Basic science subjects such as Physics, Chemistry and Biology are taught without relevant laboratories, equipment, chemicals and specimens for practical;

• Computer science is taught without computers, even in tertiary institutions and few have access to modern information technology, particularly the Internet;

• Learning abilities of most schools children are drastically hampered by hunger, malnourishment and sicknesses; and 

• Most children cannot go to school at all or drop out of schools owing to the inability to afford exorbitant fees (more)

Purposes and Programs

AKF seeks to address these shortcomings in the education sector of developing countries, shortcomings that have been largely responsible for the perennial lack of capacity in developing countries. To this end, the AKF seeks to partner with Governments, foundations and charities, inter-governmental organizations, agencies, publishing and science laboratory/computer firms and other like-minded corporate entities and institutions, to formulate and implement purposes, policies and programs

• To promote widespread reading culture, literacy and quality education in target countries, through the publication and distribution, at affordable rates, books and other basic educational raw materials to needy schools/communities ;

• To solicit for and collect new, used and/or unsold stock of books, computers, laboratory apparatus and equipment, et cetera, for free distribution to needy schools and libraries ;

• To help build and equip central science laboratories, technical workshops for pools of schools in needy communities ;

• To facilitate teacher training for developing countries, particularly in the information technology, pure sciences, technical and vocational educational sectors;

• To organize seminars, roundtables, exhibitions, to review, adopt and or adapt education curricula and policies to meet local, national and regional needs; and

• To compile and keep data on educational aid opportunities worldwide, including scholarships, fellowships, financial aids and grants, and to link needy individuals and communities with these opportunities (more)

Vision