Our Mission

The mission of The Dunstan Wai Memorial Charitable Foundation is to empower African girls through education. In African countries, as in much of the developing world, even girls with academic promise are often not able to attend school beyond the primary level. The Dunstan Wai Foundation provides girls in South Sudan and Uganda with the financial and emotional support to continue on to secondary school and beyond. Our work is based on the belief that educating a girl will serve as a critical tool to lift her out of poverty and enable her to realize her full potential.  

About Dunstan Wai

In 2006, the deep loss felt at the premature death of Dr. Dunstan Mogga Wai by his friends and World Bank colleagues led them to set up a charity in his memory to benefit the education of African girls. Born in South Sudan, as a child Dunstan fled the civil war there with his family to Uganda. Scholarships allowed him to attend Makerere and Oxford Universities and to gain his Ph.D. from Harvard University. Dunstan spent the bulk of his professional life at the World Bank where he made lasting contributions to developing countries. His career reflected his deep knowledge of Africa and his passion to improve the lot of his countrymen—a true inspiration to those who knew him. The Dunstan Wai Foundation honors his exemplary life through the empowering gift of education.