Fifteen years ago, we founded One New Education (ONE) to help young women in developing countries stay in school and reach their potential. We are a Flagstaff, Arizona-based 501c3 non-profit, and you can make a huge difference in someone’s life and community by donating.

The young woman in a traditional Nicaraguan costume on our cover is one of our newest scholarship recipients. Krisbell is now in 6th grade. She will be graduating from primary school in December and heading off to secondary school - and is she ever excited! She wants to be an orthodontist.

Dozens of studies have shown that educating women is one of the best investments we can make for the future of our planet. Women are the threads that bind societies, so access to an education helps both her and her family and the broader community as well.

More educated women translates into lower population growth and infant and child mortality, and an improvement in family health. When more girls are enrolled in secondary school, there are more women participating in the labor force and they can contribute more to household and national income.

Educated women are more politically active and better informed about their legal rights and how to exercise them.

There is also an important link between the number of educated women in a society, and less violence and extremism. The importance of educating women in ending the cycle of violence and poverty in these countries cannot be overstated.

The women in these countries often have children when they are as young as 13 or 14 and, by the time they are 20, they have several children and no way to support them, much less provide for an education. One New Education believes that one of the critical ingredients to end this cycle is education.

In the past 15 years, we have helped more than three dozen young women from Mexico, Haiti, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Kenya, Nepal, Nicaragua, Peru, Uganda, and Tanzania. We support young women through secondary school and post-secondary studies for as long as we are able.

ONE currently provides scholarships for 19 students, seven of whom are now studying in the university. Several more have already graduated from university or vocational school and are on their way!

2025 was a big year:

2026 promises to be an equally exciting year:

We are a small organization, and we try to keep a personal connection with as many of our students and in-country contacts as we can. Some of our scholarship recipients have been with us for more than a decade, and it’s been amazing to watch them grow from little girls into beautiful young women.

They are truly our "daughters.” They are bright, funny, dedicated, passionate, beautiful human beings, and we are so excited to help them accomplish their dreams.

Here are three illustrations of just how powerful our work has been for our students and their families.

1. When she graduated from her vocational program in accounting, we told Tatiana we would support her continuing studies in the university, since she had studied one year already (but had to drop for health and family reasons). She told us that she has a job and can pay for her own university studies, and that she wanted us to give her scholarship money to another girl, to help her move forward as we had helped Tatiana.

2. Belen wrote in a recent letter to us that she would like to work with us and help other young women.

3. And in her final letter to the foundation for her secondary studies, Raquel used a beautiful description of what this aid has meant. She said it was obviously helpful to her and her family, but that what was even more important is that it was “sowing hope.” We love that image.

So please help us sow hope for these and other young women. Anything you can give is greatly appreciated. University education costs more than primary or secondary (although not as much as in the United States), so we are trying to raise as much money as we can to help all our students succeed beyond secondary school.

We are running this fundraiser through the month of March, since this is the month in which ONE was founded. March is also Women's History Month, and March 8 is International Women's Day. We are in good company!

You can find out more about our organization and all our beautiful students at www.oneneweducation.org. Please join us in helping support young women in school—ONE at a time!