£8 a month teaches a child to code.
£12 teaches them to swim.
CAFFE is a registered UK charity running a free after-school centre in Sylhet, Bangladesh: coding, game development, graphic design, cooking and swimming, for young people whose families could never pay for it. 2,000 students in 15 years.
- students taught
- 2,000
- taught to swim
- 60
- runs it for a month
- £900
Fund a student
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Four skills that change what a life can look like
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Computer skills
Coding, web and app building — and game development, our flagship. Students publish their own games.
Play them at caffe.games →
Graphic design
2D illustration, pixel art and 3D modelling — the skills local studios and online clients actually hire for.
Swimming
14,000 children drown in Bangladesh every year. 60 of ours now won't.
Cooking
Kitchen skills students sell at community events — a first taste of earning from what they can make.
Every year 14,000 children in Bangladesh drown.
Large areas of Bangladesh stay submerged through the monsoon, and children who grow up beside water are exposed to the risk of drowning every day. For this reason, we built a teaching pool, where so far, sixty students have learned to swim.
Don’t take our word for it — play what they made.
Every game on our arcade site was designed and coded by a CAFFE student in Sylhet. It’s the clearest proof your £8 does something real.
£900 a month runs the centre in Sylhet.
To provide for 100 students, we have four teachers, a pool to keep running, electricity, gas and internet bills as well as class materials.
Read our accounts on the Charity Commission register →- Staff salaries (4 people)
- £600
- Utilities — electricity, gas, internet
- £180
- Class and cooking materials
- £50
- Pool maintenance
- £40
- Transport
- £30
- Total per month
- £900
Pick what you want to pay for
Direct Debit through GoCardless. If you are a UK taxpayer, you may be eligible to give Gift Aid at no extra cost to you.
- £8Most popularComputer skills for one student, for a month
- £12Swimming lessons for one student — a skill that saves lives
- £20Computer skills and swimming for one student
- Your amountGive what suits you — or fund a whole class
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Our volunteers raise 75% of everything, one sale at a time
We run pop-up sales of new and sample clothing donated by Tesco F&F — every pound goes to Sylhet.
Next sale dates at caffebd.shop →Latest from CAFFE
All news →
Game jamOur students built five games in 48 hours
The poolSixty students can now swim
CentreA new term, a new intake of beginners
One student. Eight pounds. Every month.
Gift Aid makes it £10 to us, and still £8 to you.
If you are a UK taxpayer, you may be eligible to give Gift Aid at no extra cost to you.