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IFESH The International Foundation for Education and Self-Help (IFESH) was established as a non-governmental, nonprofit, charitable organization under the vision and leadership of the late Reverend Dr. Leon H. Sullivan. IFESH has the following specific objectives: reduce hunger and poverty empower people through literacy train and place the unskilled and unemployed in jobs provide preventive and basic health care to individuals in need deal with population and environment problems develop employment through economic development activities foster cultural, social, and economic relations between Africans and Americans, particularly African Americans, and others. IFESH's commitment to self-help principles is based on the results of Reverend Leon H. Sullivan's work over a thirty-year period in the United States and Africa. That work is based on the premise that, in order for emerging democracies to be sustained in Africa and law and order to be upheld, a country's citizens must be literate and capable of making informed choices and education and training must be the cornerstones of economic and social reform. IFESH focuses on empowering individuals of developing nations through the operation and support of community-based programs in the areas of literacy, education, vocational training, agriculture, nutrition, and health care. The organization seeks the development and utilization of technical skills of all people, regardless of race, color, creed, or sex. The primary area of concern is sub-Saharan Africa. IFESH PROGRAMS include the following: Schools for Africa (Schools). Teachers for Africa Program (TFA). International Fellows Program (IFP). website: http://www.ifesh.org/