Our needs
Specific needs. Real classrooms.
This is our live need list, the same one our team works from. Every item is a real thing a real program is waiting on in Utah, Ghana or Kenya. If you can fund it, donate it, or lend your hands to it, we would love to hear from you.
Utah
What Utah needs
Our Utah programs serve refugee and immigrant youth in Salt Lake City and Provo, free to every family.
People
- Changemakers to help with teaching in our after-school classes
- New changemaker sign ups across every program
- Tech professionals to come speak to kids about what they do, and how kids can get into tech
- Dance teachers for youth, grades 3 to 8
- Art teachers
- Needs at our UNP Hartland Partnership Center site, where our robotics bootcamp meets
Things and funding
- VEX robots and parts for the Robotics & AI Bootcamp ($1,000 budgeted for 2026), plus replacement batteries, motors and brains
- Competition team registration and event costs for our first VEX IQ competition teams ($175 per team)
- Cameras, memory cards and exhibition printing for our new after-school photography course, starting Winter 2027
- Laptops for robotics and financial literacy classes
- A venue for our gala
- Sponsorships for Utah programs
Ghana
What Ghana needs
Our Ghana work centers on Dadome D.A. Basic School in Mepe, Volta Region, where our founder's mother dreamed of educating the children of her village. Her dream lives on.
Classrooms and water
- Classroom refurbishing: 10 classrooms at $600 each ($6,000)
- Pipeline and water tank ($3,000), in progress
- Whiteboards for classrooms: 10 whiteboards, about $172 each for a 4 by 8 ft magnetic board, markers and a duster at Ghana prices, with installation arranged locally in Mepe
- Classroom supplies at $20 per child per year, bought locally
Technology
- Starlink internet for Dadome ($1,100: $350 hardware plus $55 per month)
- Solar installation for the STEM lab ($10,000)
- 20 desktop computers for the STEM lab
- 11 laptop computers for teachers
- VEX robotics kits: 200 across Ghana and Kenya, and a community champion for the robotics labs
Girls, learning and people
- Reusable sanitary kits at $10 each, purchased through the Sankofa Initiative, for 3,000 girls in 7 local district schools
- Books and desks for classrooms
- 700 backpacks for Dadome district schools, purchased in Ghana to support the local economy
- Permaculture school-based food systems
Kenya
What Kenya needs
Our Kenya work centers on Mijomboni Primary School in Kilifi County, where we have painted classrooms and filled shelves with books.
Classrooms and technology
- Classroom refurbishing: 10 classrooms at $600 each ($6,000)
- Whiteboards for classrooms: 10 whiteboards
- Starlink internet in Kenya ($1,100)
- Solar installation for the STEM lab ($10,000)
- 20 desktop computers for the STEM lab
- 15 laptop computers for teachers
- VEX robotics kits: 200 across Ghana and Kenya
- Classroom supplies at $20 per child per year
- Permaculture school-based food systems
Girls and learning
- Reusable sanitary kits at $10 each, purchased through the Sankofa Initiative, for 1,200 girls in Kenya
- 100 children's books for the school library
- 1,000 self-help, motivational and life-skills books
- 500 backpacks for students, purchased in Kenya to support the local economy
Across all our work
Needs that hold everything up
- Annual corporate sponsorship
- Program advisors to serve alongside our board members
- Video and social media content creation
- Website and storytelling
- Santa in a Box, our seasonal project making Christmas ornaments with refugee families ($4,000 budgeted)
- Organization structure and a fractional COO, in progress
- Financial health analysis, in progress
- Liability insurance for our programs
- Reviewed financial statements, which larger grants require
- Monthly donors, whose steady gifts cover recurring costs like internet subscriptions
Ways to help
Three ways to meet a need
Fund it
Give toward a specific need and we will put your gift to work on exactly that item, then show you the result.
Donate it
Have the item itself, a laptop, a camera, a robot kit, a venue? In-kind gifts meet needs just as well. Write to us and we will arrange it.
Be it
Some needs are people: teachers, mentors, speakers, champions. If that is you, sign up as a changemaker.
Dreamers Wish Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, EIN 87-1835814. Every gift is tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.