The Masa Memorial Essay Contest This year’s contest is underway. This year, a number of teachers have strongly recommended that a special focus be placed on the female students, who, particularly, need to be encouraged more than their male counterparts. As a result,...
Meet 13-year old Akouvi Y., a face of change you’ve been helping to grow from the ground up. Akouvi is one of our elementary students, in their final year, who are getting ready for the 2016 middle school entrance exam. The exam will take place in June. This year,...
Donors of The Children of Lavie: Over the last few weeks, I have received kind words from many of you, congratulating us on the NYU Award for Humanitarianism given to The Children of Lavie in October 2015. I’m not only deeply honored to accept this award, I’m proud to...
— Written By Marguerite Marty, Esq. | Photo By Milla Magri On October 24, 2015, NYU opened up Lavie, the remote, little known village, and its children to its prestigious academic community in New York and around the world by honoring Kofi Amouzou (’99), the...
The 3-day national entry exam into middle school, that started on June 16, 2015 in Togo, ended on Thursday, June 18. The exam took place in Lavie and other designated exam centers around the country. 246 children of Lavie and its surroundings (from 12 schools in...
Herve’s Mom and Dad are farmers, subsistence farmers whose only tools are hoes and machetes. We met them in 2012. His father said he couldn’t wait for Herve to grow up and help out on the farm. Dad’s arguments for his only son, Herve, to help him on the farm, were as...
It costs a dollar a year for Kofi to go to school. In his African village of Lavié, that is a lot of money. When Kofi turns 13, the worst happens. His parents have no money to pay the fees. Out of school and facing a future of working on the farm he hates, he...
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