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| Project Name: | Small School Project |
| Project Description: |
| Small School Pilot Project: CARE Rwanda has prioritized basic education, particularly for girls, as a program area of high impact and great need. More than half of Rwandan women cannot read and write, severely limiting their chances of breaking the poverty barrier. Because more than a third of all households in Rwanda are headed by women and girls, the ripple effects of illiteracy are profound. Barriers to girls education are both structural (inadequate quantity and quality of public schools) and cultural (little value placed on educating girls). CARE proposes to pilot a Small Schools project in Rwanda, a methodology that has proven successful in Egypt, North America and England. Small Schools are community-launched and community-managed, and have a strong focus on linking academic (reading, writing, mathematics), vocational (skills development, income-generation activities, cooperative principles) and life skills (gender role, peace education, conflict mitigation, social justice, leadership, HIV prevention). With initial funding from private sources, CARE will test Small Schools in a handful of villages. Institutional donors have expressed interest in funding a larger project pending the success of the proposed pilot.CARE- Rwanda will make an intervention of the and Small School and Pilot project to address the issue of dsienfranchised out-of- school youth especially girls. The project will empower them with literacy and numeracy skills,develop their critical thinking potential and strengthen their capacity to create employment and gerate income for livelihood security.The strategy to achieve these objectives is partnership and participation of all the stake holders in project design,planning and implementation processes. At the end of the project the beneficiaries will be encouraged and facilitated to form associations through which put into practice the principles and skills acquired .The project counterparts include: Ministry of Education, Ministry of Youth, UNICEF,The Youth Council, Association of Scouts andamp; Guides, Local authorities and the community. |
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