Education Programs

Overview

Transforming lives through education

World Learning believes that education is the driving force behind positive change. Making inroads to improve opportunities for the more than 115 million children not in school and 876 million illiterate adults is essential to the development of human potential worldwide.
 
World Learning focuses on children whose circumstances leave them especially vulnerable and underserved, including those from ethnic and religious minorities, street children, HIV/AIDS-affected children, child laborers, and disadvantaged girls.

We work directly with children to raise their awareness about the importance of education for now and the future and to provide them with equitable and quality access to academic and skill development opportunities. Projects range from improving teacher training, curricula and materials, to mobilizing community parents and leaders to recognize education’s importance and value. Such programs prepare children for lifelong learning by strengthening the commitment of local, regional and national civil society and governments to operate thriving education systems.

Program sustainability can only be achieved with the full cooperation of local communities. We recognize that power must come from within and that comprehensive understanding of a particular case can only come from the community itself. To this end World Learning facilitates resource sharing between central and local governments, civil society, education authorities, teachers, and communities.

Featured Project – Ethiopia:  Community School Partnership Program (CSPP)

The goal of this project is to improve educational and health outcomes for children in 1,800 targeted primary schools in Ethiopia. USAID CSPP will improve the quality of education provided in primary schools and increase use of key health services and products, while enhancing coordination of education and primary health care at the school level and more broadly in communities and students' households. The project will provide technical and managerial support to 1,800 primary schools and communities in Afar, Benishangul Gumuz, Gambela, Somali and peripheries of Oromiya, Amhara, Tigray and SNNP regions. In targeting selected zones and woredas with significant vulnerable and pastoralist populations, the program will reach 900,000 students and 200,000 households.