Knowledge matters. What we do with it changes everything.
Great ideas can begin anywhere: in a classroom, on a farm, around a workshop table. World Education Foundation brings these worlds together, connecting academic knowledge with the experience and ingenuity of local communities.
Founded by Marques Anderson in 2010, WE creates opportunities to learn through doing. Our work brings people across disciplines and borders into a shared process of listening, designing and putting ideas into practice.
Portraits, shared moments and everyday journeys. The Foundation’s exhibition photographs invite us to pause, look closer and listen to the stories around us.
Photography by Marques Anderson for the World Education Foundation. Oslo exhibition event photographs by Rasmus Kongsøre.
07 THE THREAD THAT CONNECTS US
Every person brings a piece of the possibility.
The foundation grew from Marques Anderson’s journey from professional sport into global learning and community development. That journey became a question at the heart of WE: how can people with different experiences learn from one another and build something useful together?
The foundation’s American football archive records clinics across nine countries from 2010 to 2014, connecting Marques’s experience in professional sport with opportunities for young people.
Across the work, the commitment is the same: respect local knowledge, connect people across borders and create space for practical learning.
MARQUES ANDERSON Founder, World Education Foundation
