Your journey to creating lasting change
begins here.
When you choose to support Mona Foundation, you're joining a global movement that believes in the power of education to transform lives, communities, and our shared future.
Join us and become a part of something bigger than yourself.
Millions of children worldwide are deprived of their fundamental right to quality education.
Poverty is their biggest obstacle, especially for girls.
The question isn't whether you can make a difference, but how your contributions can create the most meaningful, sustainable impact.
At Mona Foundation, we've spent over 25 years evolving an effective, efficient, and transformative approach that works: supporting visionary local educators who understand their communities' unique strengths and needs.
Rather than imposing outside “solutions”, we partner with grassroots leaders who are already creating educational breakthroughs in their communities.
This approach means:
- Vulnerable children are enabled to go to school.
- Girls are empowered to live a life of their own choosing.
- Students develop as change agents who uplift themselves, their families, and communities.
- Grassroots organizations are supported long-term to build capacity for sustainable and scalable change, promoting empowerment not dependency.
- Outdated social norms give way as experience changes hearts and minds on the importance of education for all
- Communities overcome cycles of poverty and inequality to achieve overall well-being
Scaling Social Impact
As of 2024, seven of our 23 partner organizations have reached a tipping point where their impact is exponentially multiplied.
They are rising, in collaboration with their government, other nonprofits and businesses, to catalyze system change, mobilizing to rewrite and reshape the narratives, policies, and social norms which to date have inhibited millions of students, especially girls, from fully participating in the life of society.
Here are just TWO examples of this impact:
Badi School,
Panama
Badi School began in 1993 in a trailer carport and has since become one of Panama’s top K–12 schools, serving over 400 students with a blend of strong academics, arts, technology, and a moral leadership curriculum rooted in service.
Recognizing the impact of Badi graduates on their communities, Panama’s Ministry of Education adopted the school’s moral education program as the national standard, now reaching 950,000 students across 3,400 schools.
Study Hall Educational Foundation, India
SHEF's Aarohini Girls' Empowerment Program equips teachers to help girls in India claim their agency, assert their rights, and resist child marriage and domestic violence.
Focused on shifting mindsets through schools and communities, the program's success led to a 5-year partnership with the Uttar Pradesh Ministry of Education to train over 2,000 teachers across 746 public residential schools—empowering more than 100,000 girls.
Our Impact in Action: Watch Light & Air
Experience the transformative power of our approach through our 25th anniversary documentary
Light & Air: Breathing Life into Dreams – an inspiring story of how education is changing lives and communities at the Barli Development Institute for Rural Women in India.
This is just one example from among our 24 partner organizations across 15 countries, each a beacon of hope and progress, where your support creates ripples of change that extend for generations.
Your Impact Starts Today
When you support Mona Foundation, your contribution creates immediate and lasting change in the life of a child in need:
- $11 provides a month of education
- $132 sends a child to school for a full year
Beyond this profound difference, your gift supports community-led solutions that continue to multiply in impact long after your donation.
Shape the future with us.
Your monthly gift of $11 enables aspiring dreamers to become inspired students and capable agents of change.
As a monthly donor, you'll receive:
- The joy of knowing you’ve made a difference in the life of a child
- Quarterly impact updates from the field
- Exclusive stories from students and teachers
- Annual impact report showing your contribution's effect
- Special invitations to virtual events with our partner
From One Donor to Another
The journey toward a more just and equal world begins with a single step.
Your decision to become a donor today creates a ripple that transforms lives for generations.
Every child deserves the opportunity to develop their potential.
Every community deserves the chance to shape its own future.
Together, we can make this vision a reality—one student, one initiative, one community at a time.
