The Aslan Fund·a 30th-birthday build

The Aslan Fund

Help 200 girls get the one thing standing between them and school — a place to stay.

The school is built. The girls who need it most can't reach it. A girl with nowhere safe to stay is within reach of exploitation. One dormitory changes that: 200 girls, housed free and in the classroom. School is the way out, for good. Build it once, and a new 200 take their place for a generation.

Give now Why a lion?

Give

Put your name on a place to stay.

Secure, tax-deductible, and finite. Two minutes. One building. Two hundred girls.

Secure & tax-deductible through The Artists' Commission, a registered 501(c)(3).

The match

While the match lasts, every dollar is doubled.

You give $50 → $100 arrives

A matching gift doubles every donation up to ______. Give early — this is when your dollar is worth the most.

Why a lion

The picture that wouldn't leave me was a lion.

When I prayed about what to do for my 30th, the picture that wouldn't leave me was Aslan — the lion from Narnia. There's a moment where he gives himself up, and the crowd jeers and tears at him, and something in you recoils. Not at the violence — at the wrongness of innocence being treated that way. It's the same thing we feel, and too often forget, about the cross.

A dormitory is a wall between her and the worst the world has to offer — and a door into a classroom.

Half a world away there are girls this close to losing that same innocence. Where this school sits, a girl with no safe place to stay is a girl within reach of the worst the world has to offer. A dormitory is a wall between her and that — and a door into a classroom. That's the whole idea: protect the innocent, and give them a way out for good.

Build a place to stay

What $40,000 builds

One building. A home that keeps working.

The school already stands. This is the last piece — the safe place to sleep that turns "too far to attend" into "lives here, learns here, free."

200
girls at a time
Free
housed at no cost to families
A generation
a new 200 every few years
$40K
to build it, start to finish

Why give

You'll see exactly what your gift finishes.

01

Finite, measurable, done

One building. One number. One deadline. This isn't a bottomless cause — you see exactly what your gift finishes, and when.

02

Tax-deductible & legit

Every gift runs through The Artists' Commission, a registered 501(c)(3). Secure, receipted, and accountable.

03

Your dollar works twice

While the match lasts, a partner gift doubles what you give. Give early and your dollar lands as two.

From the ground

This is real. Here's the ground.

Photos from the site in Tanzania, 2026.

A new block building under construction with a green roof
The most recent school building going up
A finished classroom block painted orange with a map of Africa mural
A finished classroom block
Children washing their hands at a tap of clean running water
Clean water at the school
A finished staff and administration building with a green roof
Staff & administration building
The church on site, set in green landscape
The church on site
Power lines and poles reaching the site
Power reaching the site

Why now

Build it once. Like planting a tree you'll sit under one day.

This isn't something I'll run every year. It's one stake in the ground — a thing we build once, together, and get to look back on for a generation. I won't ask you again.

Give now

I won't ask again — I'll just show you what it became.

Thank you. — Johan