Education = Gender Equality + Quality
Helping to reduce poverty and inequalities
Gender-equality
“Girls drop out of school at a higher rate which can be largely attributed to the intersection of poverty
and gender norms, involving issues such as transactional sex, early marriage, and the burden of
having to perform a disproportionate share of household chores.”
-Article dans “Out of school children Sierra Leone”, written by Government of Sierra Leone, Irish aid, UNICEF, 2021.
Julius Maada Bio, the current President of Sierra Leone, made Education a priority as Sierra Leone’s literacy rate is lower than the average in West- Africa and is among the lowest in the world. His government launched free education for Primary and Secondary children. This initiative brings increased access to the government assisted schools. However, its economy remains fragile and corruption is widespread.
We believe that every child deserves access to quality education, regardless of their background or circumstances. Our projects are designed to bridge the gaps and provide the necessary facilities for children to thrive. We reach isolated communities in rural Sierra Leone and encourage parents to send their children to school, particularly girls who are often marginalized. Prior to our project, there was no access to primary education in the area around the villages of Masantigie and Malimba. Parents could not afford to pay for their children's tuition. The average family income in these villages is less than one dollar per day which is already not enough to feed a big family.
Quality education
"The lack of quality education is the greatest threat to my generation, if we do not act now it will only get worse."
Mohamed Sidibay,
Youth advocate, Sierra Leone
“Education For All” aims are:
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To attain high quality of education in both schools by assisting and guiding teachers and providing the school with an adequate curriculum and supporting learning materials.
02
To stress the importance of a basic education for girls, and encourage parents to keep their daughters in school until they finish elementary school.
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To supply furniture, uniforms, textbooks, notebooks, pens, pencils to the 700 children attending both schools.
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To sponsor the best students and grant a yearly scholarship to the students whose parents cannot afford to pay their children’s Secondary Education fees.
Learn more about our recent projects and how you can join us in our mission to provide education for all.
Attain high quality education
Improve the quality of education in the school by assisting and guiding the teachers and providing the school with an adequate curriculum and supporting learning materials.
Encourage parents to keep their daughters in school until the end of primary school
Girls are now attending the lower classes but start to drop out as they grow older because their parents want to keep them at home to fulfil domestic chores. One of the goals of the project is to stress the importance of a basic education for girls, and encourage parents to keep their daughters in school until they finish elementary school. By that time the girls can read, write and master basic mathematics.
Our school is online
Thanks to donations, the school now has an internet connection and enough tablets for an entire class. Today, we offer IT classes to all year 4 students. We also offer IT pedagogical training to all teachers.
Supply of furniture, uniforms, school supplies to all students attending the school
In 2012, we sent 712 boxes of clothes, books and second-hand laptops, and 55 mattresses from the International School of Geneva, via Antwerp.
In 2015, we sent up to 2’000 boxes with clothes, books and school supplies.