DOHA: Educate A Child (EAC), a programme of Education Above All (EAA), has partnered with two NGOs — buildOn and Building Tomorrow — to provide quality learning environments and enrol out-of-school children in Haiti, Senegal, Mali, Malawi, Burkina Faso, Nepal and Uganda.
Dr Mary Joy Pigozzi, Director, EAC, said, ‘As we make steady progress towards fulfilling our goal of reaching 10 million children by 2016, we are delighted to be working with buildOn and Building Tomorrow.
“These partnerships have allowed us to extend our commitment in countries where we have projects such as Haiti and Uganda and open opportunities to reach out to more children in new countries such as Nepal and in East Africa’.
Working in partnership through a co-funded model, EAC and buildOn will build 520 schools in current buildOn impact areas in Haiti, Senegal, Mali, Malawi, Burkina Faso and Nepal over the next four years to help children access education.
Working with Building Tomorrow also through a co-funded model, EAC will contribute to providing education facilities for nearly 51,000 out-of-school children in rural Uganda by 2019 through Building Tomorrow’s Educate 51k programme.
“Since our founding in 2006, we have been working towards this moment,” said George Srour, Building Tomorrow Founder and Chief Dreamer.
‘We are grateful to EAC for support, thrilled to have this opportunity and have hit the ground running.”
Educate 51k will leverage support of a network of partners, including the Ugandan Ministry of Education and Sports, over 300 villages in the country and an international community of donors.
By July 2019, EAC and Building Tomorrow will open 60 new community-built, locally sustained primary schools, scaling construction to break ground on a new school every three weeks.
Building Tomorrow partners with communities where at least 300 children between four and 14 years are out of school; no formal and accredited primary school exists within a 2.5km radius; and parents and families make a financial and in-kind commitment to support their children’s education.
EAC’s partnerships with buildOn and Building Tomorrow are an example of its momentum to achieve its target of reaching 10 million out of school children by 2016.
These new partnerships will see 91,000 out of school children are provided with access to a quality primary education.
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