At APU we view everyone who participates in our vision as investors rather than donors.   There is a very important distinction to be made between donors and investors and we believe strongly that when you invest in human potential, particularly that of adolescent girls living in poverty, your investment is one that grows and strengthens with each coming year as our students move towards becoming independent women capable of creating change in their communities and families.

Invest In A Girl – And She Will Do The Rest!

SPONSOR A GIRL

Each year, 80 young girls are chosen to attend APU.  This depends of course on whether we can find sponsors for all 80 of the girls.  Our girls begin their secondary schooling at APU in Form 1 and spend the next four years completing their secondary schooling. We are always looking for new sponsors and a sponsorship can begin at any time during the school year.

Our sponsors are matched with individual girls and are sent pictures and a biography of their sponsored student.  Sponsored students will write to their sponsors twice a year, once in late November and again at the end of June. 

We have recently changed our policy regarding communication between sponsored students and their sponsors as there has been a great deal of inequality and therefore jealousy between girls whose sponsors write to them, and those whose sponsors do not write (the majority of sponsors).  

Unlike larger organizations, we simply do not have the capacity to administrate a large-scale communication effort and we choose to put our funding into education rather than the hiring of staff to attend to this effort.  In order to equalize the communication between sponsor and student, sponsors are asked not to write letters to their girl(s).  Rather, your girl will write to you!

Your sponsorship of $1000 per year ($85/month) for four years will cover the cost of tuition, food, mattresses and bedding, uniforms, medicine, textbooks and field trip costs for your sponsored girl. 

If the cost of sponsoring a girl on your own appears daunting, become a GROUP SPONSOR  and join together with friends or family to share the cost.  

To become a sponsor:

Download our sponsorship application and mail in your cheque(s), OR become a sponsor online.

JOIN OUR BRICK BY BRICK CONSTRUCTION CAMPAIGN

Construction Photos

We are currently raising money to be put towards the construction of the following projects:

• Staff Duplex #4     ($60,000)
• Hostel #6             ($85,000)
• Legacy Building     ($205,000)

The Legacy Building will be built in 2 phases.  It will be a major construction project that is estimated at $205,000.  This year we are hoping to raise $80,000 to lay the foundation and begin the construction of the first level of the building.  The building, when complete, will have rooms dedicated to computer studies, a library, health center, micro-credit loans office, administration offices for both the secondary school as well as the Teacher Training College.

• a.     Computer Lab                                       $35,000
• b.     Health Center                                        $25,000
• c.      Library                                                 $30,000
• d.     Micro-credit loans office                          $15,000
• e.     Teacher learning spaces
•     i.     2 Classrooms at                                 $20,000 each
• f.      Administration Offices
•     i.     4 Offices at                                        $15,000 each

To join our Brick By Brick Campaign:

Download our Brick By Brick Donation Form and mail in your cheque, OR make your donations towards our specific projects online.