The last mile of a school's recovery is our whole job.
Institutional reconstruction is good at walls and slow at classrooms. School Aid works only in that last mile: the furniture, materials, technology and power that decide whether a rebuilt school actually teaches. We deliver in person, with local partners, and we publish what it cost. We are not a school and we do not run one: our work is humanitarian relief and disaster recovery in the education sector, for children left underprivileged by disaster or by where they happen to live.
Five steps, repeated in every country.
1 · Assess
With local teachers and authorities we list exactly what each school needs to reopen — down to the desk.
2 · Gate
Our Board adopts a cultural and compliance protocol for the country before anything ships: local customs, safeguarding, sanctions, logistics.
3 · Source
Equipment bought locally where possible; IT donated by companies and professionally refurbished; solar sized to the school.
4 · Deliver
Our own team carries the delivery to the school — mountain road or island ferry — and hands it over working.
5 · Report
Photographs, delivery records and the budget, published as a "where your money went" report for every donor.
Two theatres, gated one by one.
Bayanihan: the whole village, lifting one another.
Bayanihan is the Filipino spirit of a community coming together to carry a neighbour’s load — when a family moves their home, everyone lifts it, together. It names our Philippines programme, and the way it works: farmers, families and partners lifting one another across the rice communities of Iloilo.
The first educational phase in Mina covers: essential school materials distributed directly to children, together with solar battery backup and three laptops planned for each participating barangay. Maribeth de Montaigne spent one week in Iloilo in August 2026 visiting schools and confirming the outline with barangay representatives and the Mayor of Mina.
The first stage will work with five barangays at a time. Their names will be added after local sign-off is complete. A possible farmer-support stage from mid-2027 is separate, future work and will proceed only with its own funding, approval and arm’s-length procurement.
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Twiza: the mountains’ word for the same truth.
Twiza (Tifinagh: ⵜⵉⵡⵉⵣⵉ) is the Amazigh tradition of collective mutual aid in the High Atlas Mountains — neighbours turning out to bring in a harvest, raise a roof or clear a road, no one paid, no one counting. It is Morocco’s Bayanihan: the same truth in another language, and the right name for how we work in these mountains.
When the Al Haouz earthquake struck in September 2023, we went up the mountain roads the big programmes were slow to reach. Across three field missions between March 2024 and January 2025, we delivered practical learning materials directly and in bulk through trusted village leaders and parents in the High Atlas Mountains. These visits built the relationships behind our next stage of locally governed digital learning support. Two years on, in September 2025, 220 schools across Al Haouz, Azilal and Chichaoua were still not functioning. Reconstruction funds the buildings; Twiza, our return this November, funds what goes inside them — equipment, refurbished IT and solar — for schools we already know by name.
Fund the next delivery.
Every programme above is costed to the item. Your gift picks up the next one on the list.
Counted out, one school at a time.
Every delivery is itemised before it leaves and verified when it lands. That record becomes the report you receive.
Morocco, as we found it.
