A year of school
$500
One child's full year — tuition, books, uniform, meals, transportation, and exam fees. The whole package.
Donate
99%
to the kids.
period.
We're an all-volunteer 501(c)(3). Operating expenses run about 1%. The rest goes to tuition, uniforms, books, and meals. Every donation is tax-deductible.
Tax info
EIN: 82-5215402
Status: 501(c)(3) public charity
Founded: 2018
Donations to Helping Hands for South Sudan are tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law. We'll email a receipt for any contribution.
99% of every donation · directly to the children
What $500 buys
One full year
of school.
Itemized. Not "operating expenses." Actual things a kid needs to be in school: a uniform, books, daily meals, a way to get there. Plus the teacher who teaches them.
Costs vary slightly by partner school and country. This is the line-item breakdown we use for budgeting at the Juba schools.
HHSS · School Year Receipt
One Student · East Africa · 2026
1× Tuition (1 year)
$250.00
1× School uniform
$35.00
1× Books + notebooks (1 yr)
$45.00
1× Daily meals
$100.00
1× Transportation
$30.00
1× Supplies
$25.00
1× National exam fee
$15.00
Subtotal
$500.00
Overhead (~1%)
$5.00
Total
$505.00
THANK YOU — ASANTE — APUOTH
501(c)(3) · EIN 82-5215402
tax-deductible
501(c)(3) · EIN 82-5215402
tax-deductible
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Pick a tier.
what your gift does →Tuition
$250
Tuition only for one student for a year.
Meals
$100
Daily meals for one student for the school year.
Books
$45
A year of textbooks and notebooks for one student.
School uniform
$35
A school uniform for one student.
Transportation
$30
A year of transportation to school for one student.
School supplies
$25
Pens, paper, and supplies for one student for a term.
National exam fee
$15
Fee to sit for the national exam, required to advance.
The steadiest way to help
$42 a month is
a year of school.
One child's full year — tuition, books, uniform, meals, transport, exam fees — runs about $500. Spread over twelve months, that's $42. Monthly donors are how we promise a school we'll still be there next term.
On the PayPal page, tick “Make this a monthly donation” before you confirm.
$42 is preset in the PayPal window. Pick monthly, or any amount and rhythm you like.
Or pick
your own amount.
Any amount, one-time or recurring. The PayPal window opens right here and the site waits underneath.
Other ways
Mail a check, gift stock, employer match.
- Check:Made out to Helping Hands for South Sudan, mailed to:
16575 Shannon Road
Los Gatos, CA 95032 - Stock or DAF:We accept stock gifts and donor-advised fund grants. EIN 82-5215402.
- Employer match:Many Bay Area employers will match charitable contributions. Ask your HR team.
Where your dollar goes.
~99%
Direct school costs
Tuition, uniforms, books, meals, straight to the partner schools.
~1%
Operating overhead
We don't pay anyone a salary; the board is all-volunteer.
Don't take our word for it
Our IRS filings are public record. Look us up by EIN 82-5215402 on ProPublica's Nonprofit Explorer — full Form 990s, revenue, and expenses, straight from the IRS — or in the IRS Tax-Exempt Organization Search.