
Make A Real Change In A Young Person’s Life
FOTIS is a non-profit organization directed by volunteers and based in Geneva, Switzerland. Its purpose is to provide secondary education to students in developing countries who would otherwise not be able to continue their studies. A secondary education gives young people the opportunity to build a brighter future, both for themselves and for their communities.
Around the world the number of young people not attending secondary school remains high, the estimate is that over one third of all secondary school age children do not attend school. The situation is more critical in some regions, in Sub-Saharan Africa almost three quarters are out of school, in South Asia close to one half. The barriers to secondary education are essentially financial. Young people are needed by their families to work and help provide livelihood. Secondary education is expensive as the families not only have to provide the school fees, but also books, uniforms and often transportation.

FOTIS is dedicated to providing access to secondary school education for children in developing countries around the world
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Reimagine Rural Education – Rural Honduras
Educate to Envision provides access to secondary education in remote communities of rural Honduras, their approach encourages students to create projects that benefit the community. The students during holidays create and work in small enterprises for coffee...
International Village School – Kenya
The International Village School is the only private secondary school in a rural area of Western Kenya. It provides high quality secondary education to children from poor communities. The students and teachers are highly motivated as shown by their remarkable academic...
The FOTIS 100 Resolutions for Education campaign 2022
A great thank you to all our friends and supporters who had participated in and donated to the FOTIS 100 Resolutions for Education Challenge, we almost reached our goal of CHF 40,000. The support to FOTIS’s students is of enormous importance: thank you on their...
FOTIS Patron Scheme 2025/26: Back to School
It’s back-to-school time for many children around the world and thanks to the generous support of our donors FOTIS students are also preparing for new semesters of learning.
For our 15th anniversary in September 2023 we launched the ‘Back To School’ campaign, an invitation to become a Patron or a Friend of FOTIS by pledging an annual support.
We are renewing the campaign this September 2025: It couldn’t be easier to sign up as an individual, family or corporate, just follow the link. In an increasingly difficult environment for non-profits around the world, FOTIS continues to raise and distribute funds, this year adding projects in Burkina Faso and Haiti.

100 Resolutions for Education 2024
Since 2008 number of students sponsored for 2 to up to 7 years of school:
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With the support of our donors this year FOTIS has sponsored 135 students, 31 have successfully graduated!
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