At the request of the local population, the non-profit organization has built schools and classrooms enabling the younger children to go to school and giving them the education every child should be entitled to. In 2024 a first major project was the construction of two schools. ‘When we built two classrooms for a primary school in the village of Makoko three years ago, we promised to build more classes as soon as the funds were available’, Rina Peeters explains. ‘In 2024, we started building two more classes so that the primary school in the village of Makoko has a total of 4 classes. Most children don’t have to cross the Itimbiri River anymore by canoe every day to go to school in Aketi. The teachers are paid by the community and they maintain the school and the toilets excellently. The building of the two classrooms that we built three years ago still looks perfect.’

 

 

‘Dulia is a village on the other side of Aketi where an existing primary school was housed under a leaf roof supported by bamboo poles. In Dulia we had drilled a water well 7 years ago that is perfectly maintained by the villagers. They’ve asked us for support to build a sustainable primary school so that the hundreds of children can receive a better education. In 2024 we started building three classrooms, in the same good quality as the other schools we have already built, with sanitary facilities and a small office for the director. Both schools were completed in early 2025.’

 

In 2024 they also launched a project together with the students of AFD (Academics For Development) in Louvain (Belgium). In 7 of the 23 schools in Aketi they started with e-learning. Because e-learning has brought about a clear improvement in quality, the organization has purchased a projector and made laptops available to stimulate e-learning among the population. In the coming year, the organization will keep focusing on education and further expanding and supporting the schools.