Maiya School funds and runs education centres for adolescent girls in refugee camps.

Why We Exist

Maiya School was founded to provide teenage girls affected by displacement around the world the opportunity to attain an education, improving their own life, and the lives of those around them.

We are motivated to increase opportunities, raise self-confidence, and inspire a generation of girls living in refugee camps where female education is largely inaccessible.

Maiya School is a not-for-profit run by two young Australian women. We are currently implementing projects in the Rohingya camps of Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.

  • We educate women because it is smart. We educate women because it changes the world.

    Drew Fuast

  • Young women who want an education will not be stopped.

    Freida Pinto

  • Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.

    Queen Rania Of Jordan

  • When girls are educated, their countries become stronger and more prosperous.

    Michelle Obama