Our Mission
Bringing Hope to Those Without Hope.
Educate the MIND for life-long learning.
Educate the HEART to lead the community and to achieve greater fulfillment.
Educate the SOUL to be transformed for greater service to God through our Savior, Jesus Christ.
Committed To Helping Those In Great Need.
For I was hugry and you gave me food,
I was thirsty and you gave me drink,
I was a stranger and you welcomed me.
Matthew 25:35
Let all that you do be done in love.
1 Corinthians 16:14
Our Story
The Inspiration Behind the Collins Geigert World Education Foundation.
Although formally founded in 2021 as a Foundation, the Collins/Geigert family has for years been personally supporting the education of young people who have no means of continuing education beyond 8th grade.
The Collins Geigert World Education Foundation is a non-profit foundation promoting education for qualified young people primarily on the African continent. CGWEF offers grants and scholarships on a selective basis to promising college level students who are orphaned, or from extremely poor single parent homes. All of our students have been recommended to us, based upon their desire to work hard, and be educated.
How Did We Begin This Mission
I was the first in my family of siblings and cousins to complete a university education. I became a teacher. One day I found out one of my students had been turned over to social services with bruises all over her body and was taken away from her parents. That night I came home and talked to my husband, who was in graduate school at the time, about taking this little child into our home.
Why Support Education?
Increasingly, globalization places new demands on students and decision-makers. Education is the key to meeting those challenges.
According to UNESCO, in Africa, there are more than 105 million children who have either never gone to school, or have only gone to grade three. In Madagascar, for example, we are told that education is required for children ages 6-14 in those areas that have a school. And of that group only 68% complete elementary education. However, most rural communities have no schools, so the statistics are skewed toward the communities that have schools, which means in rural communities, often there are no children in schools.
Without resources many will never be able to meet these challenges. The goal for our African children's education charity is to offer needed resources. We envision our students becoming leaders in their communities, cities, and governments. When asked about their goals in general, we talk about expanding their world vision for themselves. Today’s students must understand the interconnection of their community, their cities, their country, and the world.
Our Students
Hear from some of our students in their own voices
Please take a moment to read what some of our past and present Scholarship Students have to say
about how the CGWEF scholarship program has been of benefit to them.
Meet
Billy L., Kenya (Fatherless)
Geospatial Engineering
“Before I received this amazing sponsorship, I had no hope and only a negative perspective of ever getting any further education. I could not even afford engineering textbooks nor field trips. I was trying to work, and then go to University one month at a time, but the attempts became futile. When the Collins/Geigert Foundation intervened in my life, by a miracle from God, I can now comfortably go to University without struggling for basic ne
Meet
Yvone N., Kenya (Fatherless)
Secondary School, Level 10
“I would like to show my gratitude for this opportunity that the Collins Geigert Foundation has granted to me. It has really changed my life and I can now afford to smile. Without the education I am now getting, I would probably be a prostitute, like my mother, with kids in my little town. I promise to work hard, get good grades for university, get a good job and build a house for my mother and help others who may be in a similar situation as me.”
Meet
Cyril C., Zimbabwe (Orphan)
Data Scientist
“ My life completely changed, from what I thought I would be to where I am, now, through you, God worked wonders. During my undergraduate and honors years at Wits university, I lacked nothing. I had wonderful accommodation, 3 hot meals a day, fully paid school fees and tuition and pocket funds. When I struggled with academics. I had a private tutor. Most of the time my mind was peace and focused on academics only. I will forever be grateful.”