Current and proposed activities of the Hilde Back Education Fund include:

• Awarding modest monetary scholarships to exceptionally bright pupils in primary and secondary schools who are unable to carry on with their studies due to financial problems

• Creating local resource centers where pupils from poor families can access important school materials such as text-books and also get free information regarding local and foreign institutions of higher learning.

• Sponsoring activities that provide children from poor families with the motivation to excel in their studies, eg awarding trophies for pupils who come first in selected subjects such as mathematics, English, science, or organizing writing competitions in the rural areas.

• Providing special academic orientation and encouragement to hardworking pupils, e.g. personal tutoring, to enable them achieve their full potential

• Referring pupils who do not meet HBEF funding criteria but who have a demonstrable need (e.g. AIDS orphans or physically and mentally handicapped children) to other local and international organizations that can provide needed assistance

• Contacting local and foreign benefactors who can assist the needy children on individual sponsor-to-child scholarships

• Introducing children from disadvantaged communities to skills hitherto beyond their access such as foreign languages, computer, theater, music, poetry etc

• Mobilizing individuals and institutions with interest in education to donate materials useful for the education of disadvantaged children such as old computers, second-hand books, music instruments etc.

• Linking up bright pupils with similar pupils from schools in other parts of the world and encouraging mutually-beneficial exchange programs through locally-based Embassies and other institutions

• Organizing motivational lectures by successful community members in order to underscore the value of education and create positive role models