From Child Labour to College: Support Her Future

The project continues to work toward its target of maximum enrolment of school age children and higher completion rates of primary level schooling. In order to help them to do this the project team gather information on their activities as well as the results of these activities. This allows us to evaluate what is working and what needs changing.

We are really happy the way the project is progressing.

• 927 children in the project area enrolled in primary school this academic year. This is a significant increase since the team first started their work.
• The project provided 1,044 of the poorest children with study material. This includes notebooks, bags, books, stationary and geometry boxes. They would not have got these without the project and its supporters.
• 246 local teachers were trained in the latest teaching methods. Creative and interactive class room exercises are the best way to engage children’s interest, keep them in school and out of hazardous child labour. As part of the training, teachers were brought to an award winning school to see an example of these classroom methods at work.
• In three months the mobile library van visited 36 schools in 25 villages. 1152 children borrowed some of the 625 books on offer. This will be the only opportunity many of these children will have to access such reading material.
• Work on digital classrooms has started in five schools in the area. The classrooms will provide laptops, interactive whiteboards and LCD projectors.