buildOn is breaking the cycle of poverty, illiteracy and low expectations through service and education. For the past two decades buildOn has mobilized urban youth to lift up their communities and change the world through intensive volunteer service.

In buildOn’s afterschool programs across the U.S., urban youth contribute intensive community service tutoring children, feeding the homeless and volunteering at senior citizen homes. buildOn takes these same students, many of whom have rarely traveled outside their own neighborhoods, to some of the poorest countries on the planet to build schools.

To date, buildOn has constructed more than 453 schools worldwide and ground is broken on a new school every 5 days. buildOn student in the U.S. have contributed nearly 950,000 hours of service. Through buildOn U.S. students realize their ability to change lives, including their own. 95% of buildOn youth not only graduate high school, but go onto college. Learn more at www.buildon.org/.