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What We Want To Achieve This Year

Our work is all about providing educational opportunities to the most deprived children and communities with a particular focus on those whose lives have been devastated by war. We believe education is the single most effective way to enable future generations to overcome the cruel cycle of poverty and deprivation by gaining the skills required to live healthier, safer and more prosperous lives.

OUR PRIORITIES

  • Working with the most margnalised and hardest to reach communities
  • Empowering women to enable them and their children to have better life chances
  • Building the capacity, resources and confidence of local partners and communities to enable them to become self sustaining
  • Promoting positive health messages 

There's a lot we need to complete this year to reach these ambitious but vital goals to change the lives of a further 190,000 children. With your help we can reach these goals, making a positive and long-standing change to the lives of whole communities and their children. This is what we need to achieve in each country we work in: 

LIBERIALiberia

  • Finalise the construction of a vocational training centre to enable 300 women who have missed out on an education to gain the skills they need to earn a living for their families
  • Set up a new girls education programme which will benefit over 12,000 girls

  • Expand our teacher training programme to two new geographical areas to reach 300 more teachers, benefiting 15,000 children every year 

EAST TIMOREast Timor

  • Begin training 400 teachers which will ultimately benefit over 20,000 children every year

  • Complete the pilot phase and begin the implementation of a specialist multi-grade teacher training programme for teachers in remote areas 

SIERRA LEONE Sierra Leone

  • Develop a new girls education programme to reach 12,000 girls in remote areas
  • Train a further 135 teachers in HIV/AIDS education (to reach 7,000 vulnerable children each and every year)
  • Provide desperately needed water and sanitation facilities for four schools benefiting 1,200 children

  • Continue to help our local partners to develop their organisational capacity so they can reach more children directly 

AFGHANISTANAfghanistan

  • Set up and run five community education programmes for 1,000 of the hardest to reach and most vulnerable children in Kabul
  • Set up and run two new schools for 200 children in the marginalised Kuchi community, Kabul
  • Continue with child rights training for local community members

  • Continue with social worker training in orphanages and for other caretakers of children

democratic republic of congoDemocratic Republic of Congo

  • Extend our teacher training programme to 300 teachers from schools not currently reached across the Plateau to benefit 15,000 children every year
  • Build two schools to offer a safe and secure learning environment for 600 children every year

  • Continue with our women’s literacy programme for 50 new women in the South Kivu district

CHINAChina

  • Complete a training cycle for 50 midwives in Nancheng county (who will go on to deliver over 2,500 babies per year) significantly increasing the life chances of both mother and baby

  • Develop additional activities to complement the midwife training programme, including health education in primary schools

UKUK

  • Complete our youth-led film project to support our drug and alcohol prevention programme to reach thousands of children in London and beyond
  • Provide resource packs for teachers, including an interactive CD rom, which will directly benefit all 23,000 children in Southwark, plus will be available online for teachers across London and Leeds
  • Expand the drug and alcohol education programme to all 80,000 primary school children in Leeds, with special emphasis on schools for children with behavioural, emotional and social difficulties. 
  • Pilot the training of teachers, parents and local community members in Drug and Alcohol Education