Parents in West Africa often cannot afford school uniforms and other school supplies their children need. If the parents can’t send the children to first grade, those children fall behind or fail to enroll in school at all. United Aid for Africa Foundation is requesting funding to help some of these children begin their educations on time. We also want to help the communities improve their schools in other ways. Our representative in Ivory Coast found that the villages are extremely disadvantaged, with no electricity or running water in most of the village.