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Support the education of a child and their local community for only £12 per month.
On average your £12 per month is spent in the following way:
The costs of sending children to school can be a difficult burden for many families in Ethiopia. For those children who are able to enrol in a government school, their families do not have to pay school fees. However, children must have pens and paper to attend, and often a school uniform. Their studies are greatly enhanced with extra resources such as a dictionary and text books.
Here is how your sponsorship will help your individual child. You will be ensuring your child has:
Sometimes, depending on your child’s situation, you can help towards:
How does this get administered?
Thanks to the regular support of people like you we are able to buy the educational resources that young people in Ethiopia need in bulk, and therefore keep costs low.
We assess the needs of your individual child and ensure they receive exactly the resources they need. The receipt of these gifts are acknowledged officially and transparently and we provide you with photocopied records.
The real focus for improving education in Ethiopia is improving the local school. With your regular sponsorship we can work with your child’s school and identify projects that will benefit not just your sponsored child, but the hundreds and often thousands of other young people who also attend the school.
What sort of project will we fund?
Most of our partner schools in the north of Ethiopia have insufficient classrooms, which means that class sizes can be large and that the school is unable to cater for the many local children who don’t yet get an education. We work with the local community to jointly finance and construct new classrooms, desks and chairs - in the most rural of schools we try to enable a new classroom to be built year on year. These projects open up access to education to many local people who would otherwise have no experience of schooling.
For children attending school, basic facilities are often lacking. Toilets and clean running water are taken for granted in much of the world but, in Ethiopia, schools are fortunate to have such infrastructure. This has an impact on the health and well-being of pupils and subsequently on school attendance. The needs of schools in this regard can vary widely and we work with the local community to finance decent and appropriate water supplies and sanitation facilities.
Quality of education is another major focus. Teaching resources in schools will generally be scarce. Text-books, where they exist, are often old and dated, visual aids are rare, more modern technology such as computers can be unheard of. We support schools with the provision of these resources and work with teachers to encourage more effective usage of them. In many rural schools the standard of teacher training is basic and we work with the local Teacher Training College to introduce more pupil-centred teaching techniques which compare favourably to the traditional method of teaching by rote.
We value the continued support of donors throughout the world and we want to ensure you are regularly updated on the developments of your sponsored child and its school in Ethiopia.
As a child sponsor you will receive each year:
Please get in contact if you would like to join our child sponsorship scheme, or if you have any questions. Contact our Project Director, Matt Stockdale, at matt@linkethiopia.org. Thank you!