The foundation of a successful and productive life often lies in education, yet too many children here and around the world miss the opportunity to attend school. We must strengthen our public schools at home and access to education, particularly gender equality for girls, worldwide. How can you provide a better future for a child? Look below to see how fellow Episcopalians have acted; can you add your voice to theirs?

Please refer to our Communication and Action sections to learn more about what you can do about education.

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[5/7/2009]  Carpenter's Kids builds relationships and hope
His arms filled with a school uniform, sturdy shoes, soap and school supplies and his stomach with the promise of breakfast every school morning, the little boy beamed. "Now I am real person, just like everybody else," he said. Selected by his village in the Diocese of Central Tanganyika as one of the diocese's neediest children – many of them HIV/AIDs orphans – he is now a "carpenter's kid"

[10/13/2009]  NEWARK: Students cook up learning at St. Philip's Academy
[Episcopal News Service, October 9, 2009] Students donned aprons over their school uniforms and went to work Thursday evening, October 8, in the new teaching kitchen at St. Philip's Academy, an Episcopal school in Newark, New Jersey.