Andanje Foundation

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Our Mission

The Andanje Foundation was founded by a group of undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Massachusetts Amherst to provide computers and learning technology to youth in remote regions of developing African nations – starting with seven pilot programs in Kenya. The Foundation’s goal is to use computer literacy and modern technology-based learning strategies to open doors of opportunity to critically underserved children and give them access to the modern world – in short, to bridge the digital divide.

Become part of our global community. Donate your new or used computer and other learning technology to us, donate funds to help us offset our shipping and operational costs. Your donations will help us to successfully transport and install computers, connect schools to the internet and ensure the computers are used for the educational benefit of these students.

501(c)3 Non-Profit Organization

Statement Of Purpose

The digital divide between developed and developing nations widens each day. Most young people in developing nations go through primary and secondary school without access to a computer and to the world of learning, awareness and opportunity that a computer provides. The knowledge and information that can be found on the internet and the learning opportunities inherent in computer technology can make the difference between lives of isolation and poverty and lives engaged in education, commerce and social development. As technology oriented students – a number of them from Kenya – Andanje Foundation leaders know the difference that technology can make and seek to make it available in remote regions that are not being served by other initiatives. Each day, thousands of computers and peripherals are discarded when, with proper refurbishing or upgrading, they could find another life of service in an underserved African community. The Andanje Foundation seeks to reclaim a portion of this equipment, ready it for contemporary use and deliver it, along with the learning systems necessary for effective use, to the young people in our target communities.

Contact Us

Elly Tuti, President  etuti(at)andanje(dot)org

Jennie D’Ambroise, Secretary and Treasurer  jdambroise(at)andanje(dot)org

Eric Mwangi,  emwangi(at)andanje(dot)org

Mailing Address:  351 Pleasant St. Suite 180, Northampton MA 01060

Andanje Story

By Elly Tuti

The Andanje Foundation is named after my grandfather Melickzadeck Andanje, who is the inspiration behind the foundation. When I was a little boy, he told me a story of his livelihood. Born out of wedlock, he was very unlucky never to set his eye on his biological father who died in combat during the colonial period. Upon the death of his stepfather and mom, my grandfather, who was then married with kids, moved to his ancestral home where his paternal uncles assigned him a small piece of land and where he turned to cattle farming. He was successful in this, but it was not to last long because his sons and daughters were fast becoming of age and needed to go to school.

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