school is free and high school is not. in malawi where i've been trying to help girls go to high school, a few families can afford the tuition in high school, even though some students it's about $50 a year. and the families who do manage to come up with that kind of tuition money usually spend it on the boys in the family rather than the girls. only 7% of girls in malawi finish high school. that's why the k.i.n.d. fund established a girls scholarship program in addition to our school desks program. and when i conceived of the k.i.n.d. fund four years ago, i wanted to keep it simple, very simple. kids in need of desks. i wanted to get these desks into school schools in africa where teachers and students had never seen desks. simple, affordable concept, also a job program for workers in african factories who make these