Education 4 Change (E4 Change) Yearly Report

Education 4 Change (E4 Change) yearly report

E4 Change Work Site:

Kelafo District, Somali State,Ethiopia

Subject: Report (1st June, 2015 -31st March, 2016)

Introduction

In accordance with our project proposal, we hired a qualified teacher with a BA degree in June, 2014. The qualified teacher operatesthe mobile school which is serving five villages. Integral to the role of the qualified teacher is the training of the teachers in the five villages he visits.The qualified teacher spends one day per week in each village doing onsite training of teachers. In addition to the full-time, qualified teacher, another part-time, qualified teacher was hired by E4 Change for the village of Ala’aminfrom June 2014 to February 2015.Thecommunity of Ala’amin has a highly motivated group of citizens and community elders who are committed to helping with their children’s education and E4 Change is helping to make this happen. As a result, Ala’aminis setting an example for other villages to emulate by building their own small school for their children. The teacher for Ala’aminteachsthe Ala’aminchildren (up to grade 3)in the morning and the mother’s adult school at Barguun village in the afternoon. This adult education program is a pilot project for this year and it is the only one being run by E4 Change among the 5 villages it is operating in.

Mobile School Project

Effective in August 2014, the Mobile school project was started in five schools inthe Kelafo district. This included:

1. ALA’AMIN community primary school.

2. BARGUUN primary school.

3. MACRUUF primary school.

4. GOBLE primary school.

5. KELAFO primary and intermediate school

Our qualified teacher, Mr. AbdihamidAbdullahi, has been delivering on-the-job training toteachers onsite. This is to help them to continue to develop effective ways of designing and delivering the curriculum in a variety of subjectareas in the 5 schools mentioned above. He visits each school once aweek to carry out the project’s plan and guidelines of E4 Change asit relates to the Mobile school project. He has given onsite training in the five schools mentioned above as follows:

1. Giving job training on site to publicly employed teachers as well as the E4 Change hired teacher in Ala’amin.
2. Continues to meet and consult with the selected school’s committees made up of community elders and parents.He continues to emphasize to the community of elders the value of education for their students, encourages them to take control and ownership of their children’s education, and monitors teachers’ and students attendance.
3. Working with and consulting with Kelafo District School Board as well as administration officials
4. He facilitates community mobilization of local resources for the benefit of the educational improvements within the respective communities.
5. He facilitates the establishment of a community based parents’ school council so that they can work hand in hand with teachers as well the district school board.
6. He facilitates onsite teacher training to help teachers keep abreast with and maintain high standards of curriculum delivery and teaching techniques.
7. He empowers parents’ council/elders to explore opportunities for local fundraising (cash or in kind) and general improvement opportunities for individual schools.

Status of Mobile School Project

ALA’AMIN community school

The community of ALA’AMIN village has constructed a community school consisting of three rooms through community contributions. So far, the school has accommodated 26 students. Enrollment is expected to increase in the near future as more families are expected to be settling in on the community-owned school idea. It is also expected that more community contributions will be forthcoming in order to expand the current school to accommodate the anticipated increase in number of students. The village currently hasa volunteer teacher who replaced the teacher E4 Change had hired. This volunteer teacher teaches the students of ALA’AMIN community school in the mornings as well as the Adult school at BARGUUN village in the afternoons.

Adult School at BARGUUN School

Several discussions with community elders of BARGUUN, MACRUUF and ALA’AMIN villages with the help of community elders, has resulted in the opening of an adult school consisting of 77 students from the above mentioned villages. The Adult school program operates in the afternoons in BARGUUN and was started at the end of October 2014.

Library Project

E4 Change staff met withrepresentatives ofthe Kelafo district school board as well as the District administration and it was agreed that a library should be built at Kelafo high school. We are in the process of hiring a project coordinator who will carry on the overall project responsibility and supervision. We are planning on bringingin some resources from Canada. While some books will be brought from Canada, it is anticipated that most books / texts will be sourced locally from Ethiopia.The plan is to build a one room library which is equipped with the needed resources and the first of its kind in the district. E4 Change will equip, maintain and upgrade the library for the duration of the project. A library clerk will be hired for the library and his /her salary will be taken care of by E4 Change.

Conclusion

In order to improve the educational standards of the students in the Kelafo district of the Somali Region, E4 Change as an organization has been funding the Mobile School project at 5 schools in the Kelafo district. The objective of the Mobile school project is to enhance educational standards by training school teachers onsite, and resultantly, raise the educational standardsof students. In addition, school supplies will be provided toboth the BARGUUNAdult School and ALA’AMINschool by E4 Change to facilitate teaching and learning.

The district education officer of Kelafo, on becoming aware of our activities related to the Mobile school projects, hashighly appreciated our activities. He has asked if it would be possible for E4 Change to provide additional assistance in the area of libraries and additional educational support toolsfor the Kelafo district.

On behalf of E4 Change, I will like to apologizefor the late submission ofthis reportwhich was due to logistical reasons. We are working to put structures in place to avoid lapses of this nature for the future.

Sincerely,

TegeneHailuMengste

Coordinator ,

E4 Change