Learning
OUR APPROACH
All children have the right to learn. Street Child supports children to read, write, count, complete school, and attain skills for sustained success, which sets them up for life.
Our programmes increase the capacity of schools and state systems to provide excellent equitable education – focused on foundational learning and, as appropriate, on life skills and livelihood skills that support lifelong learning.
We also focus our efforts on teachers and increasing their capacities to deliver compelling lessons and ensure safe, supportive learning environments.
Many children fall behind in their learning when they miss school. This happened worldwide during Covid-19 when millions of children couldn’t go to school. Other reasons for missing school include families fleeing conflict, becoming a teen mother, or needing to work to support the family. When children are out of school, they often get discouraged from going back because they struggle to catch up. Our teams help solve this problem with our accelerated learning programme. We use a method called ‘Teaching at the Right Level’ (TaRL), which groups children by their skill level, not by their age. This helps children get back into learning, gets them up to speed quickly and enables them to return to formal school.
In many schools, children can’t get a proper education because their teachers aren’t qualified or there aren’t enough teachers. This makes classrooms overcrowded.
Since we began, we have helped train over 12,000 teachers through our local partners, helping them earn important qualifications. We give teachers face-to-face training and peer support. We also create printed self-study materials, so teachers can keep teaching while they work toward their qualifications. In places like South Sudan, this has helped teachers in remote schools get their Secondary Education Diploma.
In areas where children are out of school due to conflict or emergencies, Street Child runs programmes focused on expanding and improving access to non-formal education. In Cameroon, these pilot projects use approaches like improving school safety, teaching life skills, and providing livelihood support to help out-of-school children access some form of learning.
Learning in numbers
595,014
Children have been directly supported into education.
19,858
Adults have benefited from alternate forms of learning, including training on parenting and case management.
21,841
Teachers benefitted from training/mentoring or getting formal qualifications.