The project objectives is to significantly improve and increase access to quality basic education in formal and non-formal settings, providing modern, free basic and secondary education services for 200 girls age 6 to 15 for safe, inclusive, equitable, corruption free, and relevant to needs in order to impact productive economic activity.
Education is the bedrock of every society. Development of education as a cutting-edge catalyst is at the heart of the development agenda of the government. As the government seeks to develop human capital and improve academic performance, access to quality free education has become the flagship program for the government. The aim is to further ensure that education is modernized and made relevant to the development needs of Sierra Leonean society. Education in Sierra Leone has been a challenge.
The trend of this project is expected to continue, especially with the introduction of the Free Quality School Education Programme, and could result in more girls of age 6 to 15 than boys being in senior secondary school in the next five years. It is therefore critical to ensure that girls do not only enroll in school, but continue with and complete their education. The project is a strategy to ensure that this materializes with a pilot phase of 200 girls in four chiefdoms; Kakua, Bumpe, Tikonk
This is a pilot project we plan to implement. In pursuit of the project objectives, we desire to engage with all who matter in this issue. The use of dialogue meetings, workshops, drama and other media shall be employed to embark on this sensitization and advocacy drive. To achieve this, our target group shall include PTAs, traditional leaders, girl child missing out of school, and mothers/caregivers.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
