Pencils of Promise

Founded in 2008, Pencils of Promise is a charity based in New York, United States working on education, water & sanitation.

Pencils of Promise is a US-registered 501(c)(3) charity that works to improve access to quality education and student literacy. It builds schools and runs teacher support and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) programmes in Ghana, Guatemala and Laos. The organisation funds its programmes largely through private donors, events and corporate partners, and states that all online donations go directly to its programmes. It also monitors and evaluates its school projects and employs country directors from the countries they lead.