Hi, I am Barry Sesnan,
quality adviser and co-founder of Education Base.
Education Base is a small organisation in Uganda which is dedicated to helping youth who can't stay in school, usually because they have to work to help their families.
We do this by running local drop-in centres (Echo Bravo centres) which provide a place to learn, often in the evening, a place to be (when home is overcrowded and has no space or light), a place to improve skills, a place to charge a phone or consult the internet and the support to study in breaks during the working day with distance education manuals and on their smartphones.
Sometimes this level of support is enough to discourage migration to Europe by providing some hope of a better footer at home. We are starting such centres in Mali, Central African Republic and D R Congo where we have local and competent members.
The current problem: There is a massive influx of refugees into Northern Uganda from the renewed civil war in South Sudan. Our recent study there shows that the refugee youth need exactly this kind of support so they can use this time in exile profitably, even if they have no work to do.
The centres, having libraries and copying equipment, also serve to support the teachers (often volunteers) and new schools to avoid each school having to be fully stocked at first.
In the second phase, not covered by this plea, we want teachers to have laptops / tablets with all the support they need to teach the curriculum.
We want to set up as many as 11 centres in the camps one of which, the Mother Centre will be more advanced and complex and will supply the others with materials and a rotating teaching staff.
The money will be used to provide two rooms and a small office (with solar power and small generator) in each centre (often situated in a school or admin centre), a mother centre of four rooms with wi-fi and a stock of books, charts and materials. There will be a stipend for a local teacher or senior youth to look after the centre.
This is an urgent need with the new year, and because the centres can roll out easily one by one the funds can be put to good use quite quickly. With three thousand pounds we can do a small centre and run it for six months. We would need 9000 pounds for the mother centre. A field motorbike would be required at approx approximately 2000 pounds.
This is very important to us because we have done it successfully before; indeed some of the older centres set up during the last crisis (but in a slightly different area) are still open. The current refugees are often the families of those who benefitted from the system in the 90s and they wholeheartedly support us setting up these new ones. In those days the centres were the only connection for the refugees to the outside world and served as post office, community centre, home for clubs and sports and training centres.
During the start up phase we will be hoping to get further funding to supplement funds hopefully raised by this phase.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/12/26/fleeing-war-south-sudanese-create-booming-camps-in-uganda.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fworld+(Internal+-+World+Latest+-+Text)
Education Base is a small organisation in Uganda which is dedicated to helping youth who can't stay in school, usually because they have to work to help their families.
We do this by running local drop-in centres (Echo Bravo centres) which provide a place to learn, often in the evening, a place to be (when home is overcrowded and has no space or light), a place to improve skills, a place to charge a phone or consult the internet and the support to study in breaks during the working day with distance education manuals and on their smartphones.
Sometimes this level of support is enough to discourage migration to Europe by providing some hope of a better footer at home. We are starting such centres in Mali, Central African Republic and D R Congo where we have local and competent members.
The current problem: There is a massive influx of refugees into Northern Uganda from the renewed civil war in South Sudan. Our recent study there shows that the refugee youth need exactly this kind of support so they can use this time in exile profitably, even if they have no work to do.
The centres, having libraries and copying equipment, also serve to support the teachers (often volunteers) and new schools to avoid each school having to be fully stocked at first.
In the second phase, not covered by this plea, we want teachers to have laptops / tablets with all the support they need to teach the curriculum.
We want to set up as many as 11 centres in the camps one of which, the Mother Centre will be more advanced and complex and will supply the others with materials and a rotating teaching staff.
The money will be used to provide two rooms and a small office (with solar power and small generator) in each centre (often situated in a school or admin centre), a mother centre of four rooms with wi-fi and a stock of books, charts and materials. There will be a stipend for a local teacher or senior youth to look after the centre.
This is an urgent need with the new year, and because the centres can roll out easily one by one the funds can be put to good use quite quickly. With three thousand pounds we can do a small centre and run it for six months. We would need 9000 pounds for the mother centre. A field motorbike would be required at approx approximately 2000 pounds.
This is very important to us because we have done it successfully before; indeed some of the older centres set up during the last crisis (but in a slightly different area) are still open. The current refugees are often the families of those who benefitted from the system in the 90s and they wholeheartedly support us setting up these new ones. In those days the centres were the only connection for the refugees to the outside world and served as post office, community centre, home for clubs and sports and training centres.
During the start up phase we will be hoping to get further funding to supplement funds hopefully raised by this phase.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/12/26/fleeing-war-south-sudanese-create-booming-camps-in-uganda.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fworld+(Internal+-+World+Latest+-+Text)
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