Overview

The Roger Federer Foundation supports educational projects in Southern Africa and Switzerland. The programmes focus on the improvement of the quality of early learning and basic education. All activities are realised and implemented by local non-governmental authorities in close collaboration with the local communities. In order to evaluate our impact, we measure the changes in the levels of supported children's performance, rate repetitions, absences, or enrolment rates.

It is our responsibility to the children that we achieve the impact as cost efficiently as possible and use our resources economically and modestly. This is why we keep our administration costs below 10% and limit our engagement geographically and thematically.

Currently we are conducting School Readiness programs in six countries in Southern Africa (Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa) plus Switzerland. Since its start the foundation has spent 77.5 million CHF for its education initiatives conducted in 13'000 primary school and preschools. Over 2.4 million children have been benefiting from a better quality in education due to our engagement for almost 20 years. Each child receiving education at an institution supported by the foundation will only be counted once in the process.