Most parents in Sub-Saharan Africa region cannot afford to purchase education materials for their children. Incomes in Africa are very low. And therefore, Education Sub-Saharan Africa (ESSA) needs initial support to implement various education programmes.

Education Sub-Saharan Africa (ESSA) refers to the donor or lender practice of providing direct budgetary support to finance production and distribution of education materials in exchange for their good will in creating conducive learning environment.

Through interventions from working partners, Education Sub-Saharan Africa (ESSA) will have full capacity to implement all programmes in areas of need. ESSA is open to participations by supporting partners and is willing to work with them (partners) in different areas of interventions in the region. We are audited by recognized audit firms and are willing to be audited by any other firm or firms of our partners' choice.

African children - the future of the continent - are rightly at the center of the development process. Their education is key to sustaining democracies, improving health, increasing per capita income, and conserving environmental resources. Education lowers infant mortality, increases longevity, reinforces democratization and political stability, decreases poverty, reduces inequality, and lowers crime rates.

Teachers in schools and Community Educators are not providing enough information about these issues. Some of the major reasons are inadequate information due to lack of adequate education materials on the same. As a result diseases like HIV prevalence in countries like Kenya has rose from 5.1% to 13.2% among 15 to 24 year olds in the last 2 years. This is according to the current Kenya Aids Indicator Survey and is quite alarming.

As an intervention to these challenges, Education Sub-Saharan Africa was established through a support from Norway, the local governments and experts in Information, Education and Communication (IEC). Through the same partnership relevant (IEC) materials and programmes for schools were developed to bridge the missing links.
More emphasis are placed on developing education materials and evaluating methods and systems that are appropriate, relevant, affordable and effective then using this knowledge to influence others to bring about change in attitude and understanding.

With Education Sub-Saharan Africa (ESSA) technical support, our missions have generated a sea change in attitude with regard to community participation in education. And missions will help develop new, inductive curricula that teach African children how to probe, question, think, and solve problems.

It is stated that all programmes should ideally include improving health and peace, environmental conservation/management education and empowerment (capacity building), evidence gathering, documentation, dissemination and best practices and lessons learned to change and obtain support for specific policies, programmes, legislation, issues or causes for teachers in schools and their peoples.

When the benefits of education are realized in Africa, the resulting healthier communities, higher wages and productivity will increase the demand for goods and services and lead to increased trade opportunities and lives of community members in the region.