Mobile Resource Teacher
We have been funding a mobile teacher since 2009. We employ one qualified, full-time teacher who uses a donkey and cart to travel between the 5 villages in the area. He spends one day a week in each of the villages, dividing his time between 3 main goals - teaching the children, training the government hired teachers and working with the parents to create Parent Councils. Education 4 Change has worked with approximately 2400 students to date.
We are happy to report that 2 of our original villages are running their schools independently, now that their teachers have been properly trained and the Parent Councils are in place. We will continue to check in with these villages but we now have the opportunity to bring our mobile school to 2 new villages! We are very excited that our support has helped to create quality and sustainable education.
Unfortunately there are 40 villages in just the Kelafo area and hundreds more villages and towns in the rest of the Somali Region. So working with 5 - 7 villages is only a small start. With your help, we would like to hire more mobile resource teachers so that we can service more villages and help to improve their schools as well.
Teacher Training
Many of the villages in the Somali Region have schools with government hired teachers who work there. However, many of these teachers are not qualified and do not have any classroom supplies to work with which means their students are not learning the proper curriculum. Our qualified teacher has many years of teaching experience, was a principal and worked for the School Board. He provides on-the-job training for the local teachers so they know what to teach and learn good teaching practices. He demonstrates how lessons should be taught and provides the government teachers with resources to use in the classroom. We have trained 33 local teachers, to date, by equipping them with the skills they need to educate children and providing on-going support for them throughout the year.
We have recently partnered with the Educator and Leadership Institute (ELI) which is affiliated with Wilfrid Laurier University. They work to build teaching and leadership capacity in communities globally by bringing Canadian educators to work side-by-side with teachers in other countries. They have already run successful programs in Haiti, Nepal and Egypt using a "train the trainer" model. We are working with them to organize some teacher training sessions for the teachers of the Somali Region in Ethiopia in the summer of 2020. If this is successful we will continue to expand these sessions and offer more each summer.
We have recently partnered with the Educator and Leadership Institute (ELI) which is affiliated with Wilfrid Laurier University. They work to build teaching and leadership capacity in communities globally by bringing Canadian educators to work side-by-side with teachers in other countries. They have already run successful programs in Haiti, Nepal and Egypt using a "train the trainer" model. We are working with them to organize some teacher training sessions for the teachers of the Somali Region in Ethiopia in the summer of 2020. If this is successful we will continue to expand these sessions and offer more each summer.
Parent Councils
The parents now work together to make the government-hired teachers accountable and to stay involved in their child's education.
The Donkey Cart The donkey cart is equipped with needed educational resources as well as sports equipment such as balls, nets, etc. The villages provide food and water for the teacher and the donkey.
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ChildrenThe children of each village congregate at their local school for their lessons.
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Abdulhamid , Ali
Our qualified Mobile Resource teacher |
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We can always use cash donations. They help to cover the costs of shipping books and resources to the Somali region, as very few resources can actually be purchased in the area. Cash donations also pay for educational supplies and cover the teachers and librarians salaries. Please visit our Donate page if you'd like to help out.
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