By Irene Pritzker, President & Chief Executive Officer, IDP Foundation, Inc. I found my philanthropic calling in 2008 while visiting the Agbogbloshie market in Accra, Ghana. It was there that I met Paulina Nlando, a yam wholesaler and school owner. Her school was a refuge for children whose parents had…

By Irene Pritzker, President & Chief Executive Officer, IDP Foundation, Inc. Magdalene Sackey was in a bind. The proprietor of a low-fee private school in Ghana with ambitions to expand capacity, she had acquired land for a new campus in Mataheko, a town in greater metropolitan Accra. By April 2016…

By Irene Pritzker, President & Chief Executive Officer, IDP Foundation, Inc. In the opening of a video entitled Practical Ways to Make the Classroom Creative and Fun, “Sesame Street” Muppets Zobi and Kami are playing a new song for their favorite teacher, Ms. Efia, slapping out the rhythm on a…

By Irene Pritzker, President & Chief Executive Officer, IDP Foundation, Inc. Lily Baah began her school on a shoestring, in Apaaso, Ghana in 2005, with six nursery students. Fees were minimal based on a family’s ability to pay, and at one point she opened a cleaning agency to keep the…