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We Need Your Help

As you’ve discovered, many Central American children and their families lack basic school infrastructure and guidance. We are delighted you have chosen to offer your support. It is only with the help of friends like you that CAFRED is able to help these deserving children and their families by furthering existing programs and beginning new projects in far-flung communities across the region.

The Mission

CAFRED provides educational opportunities for rural Central American young people by locating, building and staffing schools, developing and nurturing teachers, strengthening and refining community structures and developing and supervising programs.

The Vision

Girls dressed up for a gradeschool graduation.

We invite you to join us and our partners in our vision to build a just, prosperous and democratic Central America through the education of its rural children. CAFRED and our partners – local parents, teachers, village governments, ministries of education, local businesses and international donors -- see a world in which all young
learners in rural Central America can fulfill their promise and potential through access to a safe, comfortable school, staffed by competent teachers and administrators and supported and encouraged by their families, communities, and national governments.

Our Promise

This NGO will be advised by a team of volunteers who are specialists in the field of education, both in Central America and around the world. These professional educators will be in charge of the planning, decision making, execution, monitoring and follow up of all programs put in place by CAFRED.

We hope you join us to support CAFRED’S VISION to build a just, prosperous and democratic Central America through the education of its children.

Your Tax-Deductible Donation (By Check, Cash or Money Order)

CAFRED Federal EIN#: 32-0280053
2113 11th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001

Thank you for your support and your donation!

Question: What do this man and this boy have in common???

Answer: This man and this boy were born in the same village in rural El Salvador.

Question: What differentiates them???

Answer: The man in the picture had never seen or smelled a new book in his entire life until the founders of CAFRED entered his village. And the boy??? The boy is growing up surrounded by books!!