Poverty is a cycle. Education breaks it.

We help children stay in school, healthy enough to learn and nourished enough to focus, while empowering the mothers who support them. Because when poverty ends, potential begins.

A Project PEARLS scholar at graduation as a child and as a young adult
813active scholars in 2025
235,000+meals served in 2025
3,724medical consultations in 2025
320+women trained across livelihood programs

Rosalie’s story

Poverty tried to define her future. Education rewrote her destiny.

Rosalie’s journey is one of many that show what becomes possible when a child has the chance to learn. With opportunity, tools and support, she rose, dreamed bigger and built a life beyond what poverty allowed her to imagine.

Today, she is a Project PEARLS Scholarship Program Coordinator and an assistant teacher in the Time to Learn Program, mentoring younger peers as they take their own next steps.

“Project PEARLS has been my second family, the reason I learned to dream, not just for myself, but for others too. Now, my greatest goal is to reach back for children who were once like me: hungry, hopeless, and still waiting for someone to believe in them.”

- Rosalie

Project PEARLS is not just a feeding program. It is a movement for futures that poverty does not get to define.

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Rosalie as a childRosalie at college graduationRosalie, Project PEARLS Scholarship Program Coordinator

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