Our Mission
The Educational Development Initiative for Senegal (EDIS) is committed to creating a competitive academic environment for students in Senegal, encompassing grades K-12, by providing academic resources and financial support to facilitate their educational journey. Additionally, EDIS offers a mentorship program empowering students of African descent residing in the New York City area, ensuring equitable access to educational opportunities while fostering personal, academic, and professional growth for sustainable futures.
Our Values
Team of love
We are a team who appoints love as our leader. We will face hardships as a team and a community, but we will tackle everything with appreciation, understanding, love & respect.
Unity
Unity means acknowledging and accepting everyone’s unique differences, as we are all pieces that make up a whole.
Loyalty
Staying true to everything EDIS embodies. If we find ourselves going off course, we’ll bring ourselves back together as a unit.
Empowerment
Empowerment means providing someone with the knowledge, resources, and opportunity to make things happen. We provide individuals the chance to take charge of their own destiny and become confident in identifying their ability and agency within themselves.
Perseverance
Never giving up no matter the struggle; no matter the hardships. We will keep pushing and persevering until we reach our goal.
Justice
Justice is the quality of being reasonable, fair or right; fairness in the way people are treated.