Street Child’s largest programme to date, in partnership with Educate A Child (EAC) a global programme of the Education Above All (EAA) Foundation, supported by the Qatar Fund for Development, officially launches across Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria.
Global charity Street Child have launched their most ambitious project to date “Education for Every Child Today (EFECT)”, challenging the current education crisis in West Africa and helping 96,000 vulnerable primary school aged children to access their right to a quality education, transforming their lives forever. This multi-year, cross country programme uses a range of proven interventions to overcome the multiple barriers to accessing education and learning for out of school children at scale. These three countries have been chosen by Street Child due to the high numbers of out of school children, slow national progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 4: Quality Education, and lack of sufficient resources to tackle the out of school crisis, which was only worsened by COVID-19.
Across four years and through our network of incredible local partners this programme will target the most marginalised and those who are most often left behind; children of extremely poor families, street-connected children, children affected by conflict, children living with disabilities and girls.
At the launch of the programme, Emily Tunnacliffe, Street Child’s EFECT Senior Programme Manager said, “With one in ten children worldwide currently out of education, this project sits right at the heart of Street Child’s work. In hard-to-reach and rural communities, and in crisis-affected contexts across Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Liberia we will be supporting 96,000 out of school children ensuring they are safe, in school and learning.”
Dr Mary Joy Pigozzi, the Executive Director of Educate A Child added “ EAC is pleased to partner with Street Child in three West African countries to reach 96,000 out of school children at the primary level—children who have dropped out of school or have never enrolled. The hardest to reach out of school children are often invisible and excluded from official statistics or education systems. We look forward to working with Street Child on their largest project to date and ensuring that many more of the most marginalised children can access their right to a quality primary education, the foundation for all other learning”.
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About Street Child
Street Child is one of the world’s fastest-growing international children’s charities, established in 2008. Street Child works to ensure children are safe, in school and learning even, and especially, in low resource environments and emergencies. We work with an expanding network of 95+ local organisations and a focus on the power and purpose of inspirational local level organisations sits at the heart of all we do – and has done so since our first partnership in Sierra Leone in 2008. Today Street Child works across 20 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and Europe.
About the Education Above All (EAA) Foundation
The Education Above All (EAA) Foundation is a global education foundation established in 2012 by Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser. EAA envisions bringing hope and real opportunity to the lives of impoverished and marginalised children, youth and women, especially in the developing world and in difficult circumstances such as conflict situations and natural disasters. We believe that education is the single most effective means of reducing poverty, generating economic growth and creating peaceful and just societies, as well as a fundamental right for all children and an essential condition to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). For more information, visit educationaboveall.org.
EAA is comprised of four programmes: Educate A Child (EAC), Al Fakhoora, Reach Out To Asia (ROTA) and Protect Education in Insecurity and Conflict (PEIC). In addition to providing access to education for children around the world, EAA advocates to safeguard inclusive and quality education for all.
Educate A Child (EAC)
Educate A Child (EAC), a global programme of EAA, aims to trigger significant breakthroughs and a material difference in the lives of children who have no access to primary education. EAC has been helping millions of the hardest to reach out of school children (OOSC) around the world.
Through partnership and innovation, millions of children continue to be supported to overcome the barriers blocking their path to education. Playing a catalytic role in the field of OOSC and quality primary education, EAC strives to achieve individual and social outcomes for these children, their communities and a more sustainable world for us all.