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
- Permaculture school-based food systems, in planning
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: about $172 per classroom for a 4 by 8 ft magnetic board, markers and a duster at Ghana prices, with installation arranged locally in Mepe
- Classroom supplies: whiteboard markers, pens, pencils, erasers and exercise books, bought locally
Technology
- Starlink internet for Dadome ($1,100: $350 hardware plus $55 per month)
- VEX robots for Ghana, and a community champion for the robotics labs
- Computers to refresh the school's STEAM and ICT lab
Girls, learning and people
- Reusable sanitary kits at $10 each, purchased through the Sankofa Initiative. Together with Kenya, they keep 3,000 girls in 7 local district schools in school
- School supplies, books and desks
- Backpacks for students, purchased in Ghana to support the local economy
- Changemaker recruitment for the Ghana Solidarity Trip and our Ghana programs ($1,500 budgeted)
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)
- Starlink internet in Kenya ($1,100)
- Computers and STEM equipment to refurbish the school's computer lab
- VEX robots for Kenya
Girls and learning
- Reusable sanitary kits at $10 each, purchased through the Sankofa Initiative. Together with Ghana, they keep 3,000 girls in 7 local district schools in school
- Children's books for the school library
- Backpacks for students, purchased in Kenya to support the local economy
Across all our work
Needs that hold everything up
- Annual corporate sponsorship
- Video and social media content creation ($1,000 budgeted)
- Website and storytelling ($3,000 budgeted)
- Santa in a Box, our seasonal project making Christmas ornaments with refugee families ($4,000 budgeted)
- Organization structure and a fractional COO ($2,000 budgeted), 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.