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Over 5.5 million children are benefiting from Schools for Africa supported interventions

Angola

  • 383 schools and 1,532 classrooms built or rehabilitated
  • 54,000 teachers trained benefiting 2,430,000 children
  • 79 schools provided with clean water and 121 schools with sanitation facilities
  • Development of National Early Childhood Development Policy supported

Malawi

  • 117 schools and 584 classrooms built or rehabilitated
  • 10,000 teachers trained benefiting 600,000 children
  • 566 schools provided with furniture and learning materials
  • 97 schools were provided with sanitation facilities and 188 with clean drinking water
  • Over 100 communities were trained in participatory school management in previous years

Mozambique

  • 91 schools and 275 classrooms built or rehabilitated
  • 246 schools received water facilitates benefiting 98,400 children
  • 6,146 teachers and principals trained benefiting 370,000 children
  • Sensitisation on development issues carried out through school theatre activities continued

Rwanda

  • 162 schools and 800 classrooms built or rehabilitated
  • 162 schools were supplied with safe water and sanitation facilities benefiting 546,000 children
  • 5,108 teachers trained
  • Child-Friendly Schools norms and standards adopted as quality norms for nationwide replication in all primary and secondary schools

South Africa

Comprehensive Child-Friendly Schools implementation plan for scaling up of CFS developed in 3 provinces, Eastern Cape, Limpopo and KwaZulu Natal
  • 12,950 teachers trained benefiting 441,595 children
  • In service teacher training curriculum taught by the University revised to include Child-Friendly Schools components
  • Government supported to form Girls and Boys Education movements structures in 22 districts across the country

Zimbabwe

  • 130 schools provided with sanitation facilities, 130 with safe water, 90 schools and 222 classrooms were built or rehabilitated
  • 184 schools were supplied with furniture benefiting 36,800 children
  • 17,243 teachers trained benefiting 689,720 children
  • 760 caregivers and teachers also trained in the previous years in early learning for better school readiness


NEW COUNTRIES THAT JOINED SFA IN 2010

Burkina Faso

  • 74 schools and 222 classrooms built or rehabilitated
  • 74 schools provide with sanitation facilities and safe water
  • 919 teachers trained benefiting 13,320 children
  • Establishment of the Child-Friendly School concept within the education sector being supported

Ethiopia

  • 78 schools and 1,037 classrooms built or rehabilitated
  • 923 schools provided with furniture
  • 3,000 teachers trained benefiting 123,080 children
  • 11 schools provided with sanitation facilities and safe water benefiting 8,800 children
  • Revision of school improvement programme guidelines being supported

Madagascar

  • 95 schools and 146 classrooms built or rehabilitated
  • 55 schools provided with sanitation facilities
  • 827 teachers trained benefiting 124,182 children
  • Early Childhood education strategy developed with teacher training modules

Mali

  • 90 schools and 30 classrooms built or rehabilitated
  • 60 schools provided with sanitation facilities benfiting 18,000 children and 26 schools provided with safe water
  • 2,820 teachers trained benefiting 126,600 children
  • Standardized curriculum for pre-school developed

Niger

  • 36 schools and 99 classrooms built or rehabilitated
  • 30 schools provided with safe water benefiting 2,400 children and 37 schools provided with sanitation facilities
  • 2,832 teachers trained benefiting 113,280 children
  • Model community kindergarden included in the National Programme for Education (2011-2013)

Latest Field Results: December 2010

Children read from a shared lesson book in an outdoor classroom at a settlement in the village of Nyamukwara near the Mozambican border, Zimbabwe. © Giacomo Pirozzi Mozambique. © UNICEF Two girls with pails walk towards latrines at Umubano II Primary School in the town of Gisenyi in Western Province, Rwanda. © Giacomo Pirozzi