Mali- education and training

 

Mali - Education and Training

 

  
 Background 
 
This project is the continuation of the excellent collaboration that binds UNITY FOUNDTION with the NGO VICTORY  since the year 2000. This new project has 2 major components: to facilitate the establishment of primary schools and conducting a program for pre-youth. The school curriculum is to develop the capacity of individuals and institutions to create and manage their own schools. This approach helps them take ownership of their school and to take responsibility right from the beginning by participating in the construction of the school and in the financial support of teachers. The community, the Association of Parents of Pupils and the teachers are involved in running schools.
 
Project Description
 
Community schools established since 2001 are just finishing the primary cycle of 6 years and become increasingly autonomous, because their capacities are better developed, and institutional structures such as the regional and local state such as CAP (Center for Educational Animation ) support these schools through training, visits and the provision of textbooks. This is one reasons why VICTORY decided to become more of a training center for the schools and lower educational monitoring will be done within each school by those that the EPA (Association of Parents of Pupils ) has designated as a school principal, under the supervision of the CAP.
 
After the brilliant results achieved by pupils at the end of the review of the undergraduate (99% success) in the first 3 schools of the project, VICTORY  has seen the enthusiasm of the parents and students wishing to pursue studies up to the 9th grade and the exam of graduate Diploma for Basic Education (DEF) by the end of the 9th year. Our Malian partner responded to this request by extending the school curriculum until the 9th year as the nearest graduate schools are in towns many miles away from the villages in question, and a large percentage of students would not have no opportunity to access them.

 

Once students have passed the DEF or the end of the 2nd cycle, the ones having the capabilities will be encouraged to continue their studies in the 3rd cycle and even graduate to university. Those students  wishing to be trained as teachers during the training cycles from the NGO in order to be able to teach in their schools and to ensure the continuity and eventually establishing their own schools, will be trained in this. Thus the system can be perpetrated and perpetuate.

 

Duration of the project: 2009-2012

Link: to the pictures of this project

 

	Year 1	Year 2	Year 3	Year 4	Total
MAE*	59.885	45.065	38.274	41.840	185.064
UF	19.962	15.022	12.758	13.947	61.689
Apport local	14.400	14.400	14.400	14.400	57.600
TOTAL €	94.247	74.487	65.432	70.187	304.353

 

* MAE = Ministry of Foreign Affairs

 

Note: Between 2002 and 2008, from a population of about 5.500 inhabitants spread over 13 villages, some 2.164 children aged between 7 and 14 years have been sent to school progressively and received a basic school education reaching from year 1 to 6. This represents a quite considerable percentage of 39,53%.

(Report of evaluation 10/2008)