Team Dayā is pleased to announced its 2025 school building dates. For our supporters that want to bear witness to Building Change, and see for themselves the impact of primary school education in fighting poverty and illiteracy, consider joining us.

Curious? Have questions? Contact our Head of Recruiting Jaryd Knutsen. You can also contact any Team Dayā member (scroll through our site). Each participant on a Team Dayā school build covers 100% of her own cost, and commits to raising money towards our school construction fund.

If you work in advertising or technology, there is almost certainly someone you know among our team members and supporters! Read the first person accounts of school building and listen to some of our Team Dayā members, just below.

Team Dayā 2025 school builds:

Nicaragua, Central America
Sunday, February 9, 2025 – Saturday, February 15, 2025

Malawi, East Africa
Sunday, June 22, 2025 – Saturday, June 28, 2025

Nepal, South Asia
Sunday October 26th, 2025 – Sunday, November 2nd, 2025

Listen to just a few of our Team Dayā members on our school building sites around the world:

Nicolle Pangis, former Ampersand, WPP in Malawi:

Jordan Mitchell, former IAB Tech Lab, Rubicon Project in Guatemala:

Mike Benedek of Datonics in Senegal:

Suman Chagarlamudi of Pinterest in Nepal:

Jeff Green of The Trade Desk in Senegal:

Lauren Rose of OpenWeb in Nepal:

Michel de Rijk, 19Volt in Nepal:

A big Team Dayā thanks to #CannesNYC and its organizer Andrew Kraft. The perennial event for those in the #same300 that are not in the South of France has selected Team Dayā as its charity partner.

There will be table tents with photos of our school building work from around the world driven by advertising and tech executives. Attendees can follow a QR code to this message from Kraft encouraging attendees to support our work.

Team Dayā members Lauren Rose and Neepa Shah will be at the event to talk about our work Building Change – raising funds and building primary schools in developing countries around the world. Advertising and technology executives can support the team in many ways – from financial support, to lending their expertise, to traveling to a future school build. As the event takes place, team members will be traveling to Senegal where the next project starts the week of June 24th.

Please consider supporting  our Team Dayā. We cannot build these schools without your support. Example investment opportunities:

• $100 Five shovels for excavating the school’s foundation
• $250 All the nails, nuts, and bolts to build a roof for the school
• $500 In-country mason during the entire construction of the school
• $1,000 Paint for a school
• $40,000 Builds a school

Team Dayā 2024 Plans

In 2024, we plan to build schools in Nepal (March), Senegal (June 2024) and Guatemala (December 2024). These ground breakings will be our second school in each of these countries.

The exact start dates are:

• Sunday, March 17, 2024 – Nepal (arrive Kathmandu) [groundbreaking completed, construction in progress]
• Sunday, June 23, 2024 – Senegal (arrive Dakar) [scheduled]
• Sunday, December 1, 2024 – Guatemala (arrive Guatemala City) [spots available]

If you are curious to learn more about joining a build, please reach out to our Head of Recruiting Jaryd Knutsen.