Empower more kids to complete high school.
Empower women and girls.
Women and girls hold the keys to lifting communities out of poverty. Learn more about our Women's Empowerment Project.
Co-Develop
Partnership and community input are at the heart of what we do. Click below to learn more.
One-to-One Sponsorship
Story Time pairs 20-30 students with their own individual donor. Click below to learn about how no student sponsored by Story Time has dropped out.
Big Impacts
Attendance rates near 100%, double the girls attending high school, 28 students sponsored annually; all with a budget smaller than $5k. Click below to learn more.
Domestically and internationally, we strive to co-research, co-develop, co-implement and co-fund projects that the local communities we partner with would create for themselves if they had the financial means. Story Time is currently partnering with Nsondole (CDSS) Community Day Secondary School near Zomba, Malawi to provide educational support to students and their communities.
Current Projects
We take great pride in constantly updating our research to ensure that we identify the adverse conditions that face the communities and students we partner with.
You are able to decide where your donations go, track them with progress updates provided to you by Story Time, and be comfortable knowing your donations are making the impact you intend.
Mobilizing communities by managing and overseeing construction projects.
Delivers school supplies on a case by case basis to students who need them.
Equips community leaders with the skills and tools they need to provide a quality academic environment.
Mobilizing communities by establishing technological resources such as electricity and wireless internet.
Promoting sustainable agricultural practices and entrepreneurship for improved nutrition and financial independence.
Aims to make education more accessible to sponsored students that lack basic school materials.
Individual donors are matched with students who are identified as most likely to drop out. $20/mo. covers the basic school fees for one student per year.
Stories
Featured stories from the Story Time blog.
In the realm of education, every student's journey is unique, but few stories encapsulate resilience and determination quite like that of Zalimba, a Form 4 student and beneficiary of Story Time.
Through student sponsorship, mentoring, women’s empowerment, teacher training, and food security initiatives Story Time endeavors to provide holistic support to students facing various challenges, including inflation and hunger. Here's a glimpse into our activities during Q1 of 2024.
The year 2020 has brought great change around the world. Malawi has seen its share of floods, elections, and regulation changes due to COVID-19. If you haven’t had the chance to keep track of it all (who does?), Story Time has put together a brief rundown of what has happened in Malawi this year, and where things stand now.
The government of Malawi closed high schools mid-year in April 2020, and in November, the government invited Form 4 (Senior) high schoolers back to school in order to study for the exams that they were originally supposed to take in May. Senior students will take their government exams, and all students will advance grades in February. The government has mandated masks, hand washing, and social distancing, but in rural Malawi, at our partner high school, students are not able to buy these items
Teacher training workshops have started and are continuing this year. Dr. Zikani Kaunda, Story Time Vice President said, “It’s good that we have all the teachers on board, the progress will be demonstrated in the students’ performance.” Each teacher will have a plan of action, from today until the end of the term, to see what has improved in terms of students’ performance.
Through the stories of Ahamadu, Emma, and Sunganini, the changing narrative surrounding women’s health within the community is explored.
Chisomo is a previous Story Time participant in the Women’s Empowerment Project, and since graduating, has become a volunteer facilitator and learner guide for CAMFED on the topic of sexual health and reproduction. She feels that because she went to school, “maybe I should do business. I should do something on my own.” But her mall business is not without struggle, due to the recent drought.
As a primary school teacher who happens to live very close to the secondary school, Ms. Changuya generously started volunteering her home in 2013 as a safe space for girls to pick up pads from WEP and use a sanitary restroom. Learn about Ms. Changuya's path to teaching in this story.
Find out the latest on the Malawian government's standardized testing policy, and we ask: how would your life have been different if a certain ACT or SAT score was required for everything from a business loan to a college application?
