Through the Serena Williams Fund, Serena has helped to build elementary schools in Uganda, Kenya, and Zimbabwe in conjunction with Build Africa, and she also partnered with Helping Hands Jamaica to help build a school in Trelawny Parish, Jamaica. And by build, we don't mean she donated money — she literally helped build those schools.
For her, helping black girls get an equal opportunity for education is essential. "Now, sometimes in Africa they send only the boys to school," she wrote in Wired in October 2015. "So we had a strict rule that our schools had to be at least 40 percent girls. It was impossible to get 50-50 boys to girls, and we really had to fight for 60-40. But we got it."
