We give 20% of our profits to support impactful change across Sub-Saharan Africa, funding girls' education and empowering communities through targeted initiatives. Every purchase you make helps uplift lives, creating a ripple of positive impact that lasts
If you educate a man, you educate an individual. If you educate a woman, you educate a nation.
Our mission is to empowering African girls, starting in Senegal, through education so they can pursue careers as doctors, scientists, engineers, leaders, or whatever they dream of. This will drive economic growth, improving healthcare, infrastructure, technological innovation, and the overall well-being of communities.
Little by little, the bird makes its nest.
Through circumstances beyond their control, girls and young women in Senegal (and in many countries) don’t have as many opportunities to earn an education. In fact, only 39% of Senegalese women aged 15 years and older are literate, compared to 62% of men.
Economics are a top reason Senegalese girls don’t attend or finish school. According to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), in addition to economic reasons, unequal access to quality education, distance to school, unsafe roads and poor infrastructure of school buildings, as well as the low quality of education constitute some of many impediments to girls’ enrollment, retention and completion of education. Many families still only send boys to school, keeping girls at home to help with housework or look after siblings. Additionally, girls often marry and bear children at a young age, which prevents their completion of school.
Senegal’s Human Development Indicator (HDI) of 0.514 ranks the country 166 out of 189 countries and territories. The HDI is a summary measure for assessing long-term progress in three basic dimensions of human development: a long and healthy life, access to knowledge and a decent standard of living. Knowledge level is measured by mean years of schooling among the adult population, which is the average number of years of schooling received in a life-time by people aged 25 years and older; and access to learning and knowledge by expected years of schooling for children of school-entry age, which is the total number of years of schooling a child of school-entry age can expect to receive if prevailing patterns of age-specific enrolment rates stay the same.
If you think education is expensive try ignorance.
UNESCO (and Expedition Subsahara) strongly believes in empowering young people, particularly young women, through Computer science programming, such as those in the STEM fields. We don’t want finances, access, or quality of education to prevent girls from furthering their education in STEAM fields. We believe women should have the education and tools needed to choose her own destiny.
Twenty percent of our annual profits are donated to fund girls education across Africa.
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
We have a small team who work tirelessly to bring Expedition Subsahara customers quality, authentic African goods. Together, we can change the narrative on how African goods are bought and sold, and at the same time create sustainable and meaningful work within the continent. It’s the long game but little by little the bird builds her nest.
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