IN SOMALIA
Lack of
Help Yateem
Firstly, an orphan education project called “Help Yateem” are based in Somalia and are a non-profitable organization who help Somali children to be educated. Without education, these orphans are destined to repeat this never-ending cycle of poverty. Orphans who are not educated are mostly condemned to live on the streets of begging or even worse. Help Yateem aims to empower the orphans with free education and welfare. The children who receive this education do not take it for granted, they value every second of education they get and they work extremely hard.
CARE
Also, another organization that tries to fight Somalia's crisis is called CARE is working with 258 schools and building 12 new ones. They’re renovating and refurbishing 265 primary classrooms, providing 62 schools with water and sanitation facilities, providing 103 schools with learning materials and finally providing 1500 girls conditional education grants. This project’s work is aimed at long-term re-establishment of a public education system that is accessible to all parts of the population, with a harmonized national curriculum and examination system, well-trained teachers, quality assurance systems, adequate infrastructure, and well-managed schools. They will help the communities of Sool, Sanaag, Toghdeer, and Mogadishu. These are areas where education is very dense in Somalia.
African Education Trust
Other projects are projects such as African Education Trust, Africa Educational Trust helps grow the education of Somalia. Since the collapse of the education system, communities have taken different approaches to establishing locally run education services. While any progress made in the face of the collapse of public education is impressive, all these systems face enormous challenges. Girls and women, disabled people and displaced people fare worst in times of uncertainty and extreme poverty. Very minimal amounts of students have opportunities for vocational training and higher education. African Education Trust programs support government and community efforts to re-establish formal education at both primary and secondary school level. They have also partnered with local and Ugandan universities to support the training of teachers and managers to help rebuild the school system. Over the past ten years, their long history of working with education ministries has led us to support the development of the national curriculum framework. They also provide non-formal education opportunities for people who have missed the chance to attend school. They also provide classes for displaced people, out of school youth and adults living with disabilities, in basic literacy and numeracy, alongside much-needed vocational training. In all their work, they focus on excluded groups including pastoralists and people in remote rural communities, families displaced by conflict or drought, ethnic minorities, people living with disabilities, and girls and women. They have also provided education to former combatants and police officers, in order to support the development of a more peaceful and democratic country. They preach to improve accessibility and quality of formal education, improve the quality of learning and transition to higher education, promote women’s and girls’ education, establish recognized non-formal education, provide skills training, develop a culture of literacy, and finally learning and reconciliation.
UNICEF and Save the Children
Unicef runs a project called ICDC. This program aims to build new classrooms, provide more textbooks, and more teachers. People who work in Somalia don't have experience of success in organization development. ICDC is designed to help build capacity in the areas of planning and policy, human resources and financial management. It also helps to increase gender equality and ensure high education standards.
Another plan that UNICEF runs and Save The Children is going to co-lead is going to help the education of Somalia. Already, most of 10,000 teachers across the southern and central regions are dependent on incentives paid through the support of Education Cluster partners. Results state that in Lower and Middle Juba as well as Bay regions, up to 50 percent of teachers may not return to the classroom when schools reopen. It will cost more than 20 million dollars to carry out the plans. Support is urgently needed to establish temporary learning spaces in camps for the internally displaced, support additional classroom space to accommodate new learners in host communities where people have migrated, provide water and sanitation facilities, provide school kits of essential education and recreational material to 435,000 children and finally to provide incentives to 5,750 teachers and strengthen the Community Education Committee’s involvement in schools. Plans are also underway to provide food vouchers through schools to benefit learners and their families and provide an incentive for children to stay in school, or to enroll for the first time in their lives. The rapid assessment conducted by the Education Cluster carried out by 14 NGO’s. Examining conditions at 589 learning centers, including private, community and internally displaced schools.
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