Program areas at NACEPF
Provided 4g and 5g high-speed, free or low-cost, mobile broadband service to schools, libraries, nonprofits, social welfare and healthcare organizations to increase Educational and workforce development opportunities, digital literacy, and broadband availability in both metropolitan and rural areas throughout the united states. We provided critical broadband service to more than 7,600 Educational and nonprofit organizations across all 50 states, Washington dc, and puerto rico. Our unlimited broadband accounts delivered more than 32,214,100 gb of data to keep communities connected when and where they needed it.
The center for disease control cites two major effects of hunger on academic performance: the inability to focus and excessive absences due to illness. Rhode island community food bank reported that 1 in 3 households in ri lack adequate food, demand for food assistance grew 25% between march 2023 and june 2023, and 41% of households with children are food insecure. Nacepf's charitable contributions from the vegetable produce it grows on its acreage addresses some of the root causes that impedes academic success by distributing 136,444 units or bundles of vegetable produce totaling 23,908 pounds in weight to local area soup kitchens and food distribution charities that serve the poor, needy, and homeless in rhode island.
Mobile beacon provided 9,657 donated devices to schools, libraries, nonprofits and Educational institutions during the fiscal year. With these donated devices and reduced-cost, unlimited data plans, these organizations had the broadband access they needed to fulfill their missions, expand program services in their communities, and connect their constituents who otherwise lacked access to technology.
Nacepf provided a grant to mary's meals, a nonprofit that provides one nutritious daily meal in a place of education in some of the poorest areas of the world. 64 million of the world's hungriest children do not attend school. In order to survive, they have to beg or work. With mary's meals program, children are motivated to attend school to receive a meal while making the most of their education. When the pandemic closed schools, mary's meals continued to provide vital meals in the form of community distributions, providing a lifeline to many families during this challenging time. Nacepf's donation enabled mary's meals to continue to feed and support 135,747 children in zambia, malawi, kenya, syria, haiti, south sudan, and ethiopia.
During this fiscal year, nacepf and buildon continued their crucial work, providing equitable access to education for children and adults through nacepf's grant, which funded the construction of 20 schools in eight developing countries (burkina fasu, guatemala, nepal, nicaragua, mali, haiti, senegal and malawi). Each school was built in partnership with the community it served, with the community members themselves taking the lead on the project. Through the addition of these new classrooms, learning conditions have improved, attendance and pass rates have risen, and more children have been enrolled in school. To date, nacepf has now funded 60 schools, with 14,702 students attending, 50% of whom are girls. Additionally, nacepf also funded the launch of 10 adult literacy programs in 2022 and 2023, which provided 598 adults with the education and skills needed to better their own lives and positively contribute to their communities.