One-room schools (GyanSetu), India - These schools provide out-of-school children in city slums and poor rural villages around Lucknow with access to education so they can catch up to their grade level and transition into the school system. Mona supports 116 one-room schools educating 3,200 students. Watch the video to see the faces of students in these schools. Cost: $7 per month per student.

Ruhi Arbab and Simmons Schools, Colombia provide high quality K-12 education to children in rural and semi-urban areas. Most are of Afro-Colombian and mestizo descent from single-mother households. In addition to teaching academics, technology, and the arts, the schools offer spiritual/moral education that inspires students to be of service in their communities and promotes their personal and social transformation.
Cost: $17 per month per student.

Hope Academy for Girls, Sierra Leone is a formal six year Junior and Senior Secondary School serving at-risk, low-income girls from five villages. It is the only girls’ educational institution on the south end of the peninsular in the Western Rural Area District of Sierra Leone.

Enable girls in one of the world's poorest countries to go to school and build their capacity as future leaders of their nation.  Cost: $30 per month per student.