PROJECTS

The project sets out to improve the educational status of girls and boys in the provinces of Balkh, Kandahar, Nangarhar in Afghanistan, by increasing access to primary education and spreading awareness of the importance of education. 

Community-Based Education (CBE) provides direct access to quality education for children who do not have access to formal schools. CBE is the only education modality in Afghanistan that has successfully provided educational services to more girls than boys to counteract the gender disparity in education. Afghanistan’s education sector has been growing exponentially and CBE is a major part of this success story. CBE is formally recognized and adopted by the Ministry of Education as a tool to reach rural, remote, and underserved populations. 

• Children in no formal education will be enrolled and provided education through schools and community based education (CBE). 
• This project will support the process of identifying locations for CBE centers, set them up including all the required resources and equipment, as well as train and deploy teachers to the CBE centers or schools.
• A management team will also be set up from each CBE, to ensure longer term leadership and engage with local parents, elders and CBE management about the importance of education and children’s rights.

This project also supports Khoog Koor School (Sweet Home School) where 370 orphaned students study from primary to the end of secondary education. The ongoing support for this school was lost, and this project will provide funding for the school to continue for a further year until 2024 with the years 2022 and 2023 being supported with funds raised during CW2021.  

• Any vulnerable children starting will receive quality teaching during the one year of secondary level of education to be well prepared to continue school at the high school level. They will also receive learning materials including school uniforms, school bags, shoes, and stationery.​
• The project will also provide teacher salaries and support the running costs of the school in Jalalabad.

The project aims to contribute to the fulfillment of basic rights and core needs for vulnerable communities in Blantyre District. Vulnerable adolescent girls, including orphans, cannot regularly attend school as their families cannot afford the sanitary dignity kits. 

• Alongside other interventions, this project will provide sanitation dignity kits to adolescent girls.

The arrival of refugees’ community in Sabah started in 1972, which came as refugee for asylum seeking. Sabah, located in East Malaysia or Borneo Island is recorded as the poorest state in Malaysia according to the Malaysian officials. 3 local schools are currently in very poor condition and lacking in many terms including facilities and infrastructure. Besides, electricity and water systems are also very limited and sometimes none in these selected locations.

• This project focuses on refurbishment of infrastructure at 3 Alternative School for stateless community in Sabah. 
• In this project, we aim to assist in improving the water, sanitation and hygiene system in these schools as an effort to promote healthy lifestyle and hygienic environment amongst the stateless/undocumented community in Sabah.

In the last 5 years the number of Rohingya refugees has increased in Malaysia. Among the challenges as a refugee in Malaysia, one is their restricted access to education. Schools

provided by the government often only serve the locals, and refugees cannot afford to pay expensive education fee at international schools. Many also struggle with travelling further distances due to lack of personal transport. Thus, the only option is bringing education to them. 

• Islamic Relief Malaysia has taken a big step by initiating an Alternative Learning Centre for refugees, particularly Rohingyas in Taman Kajang Utama, namely Refugees Intellectual Skills & Excellence (RISE).

• This project will support these efforts by providing educational materials and training to teachers to deliver the Cambridge syllabus, as well as covering running costs of the school and for activities for the students.

Women and children in Mali are disproportionately affected by ongoing protracted crises and escalating humanitarian needs, and as one of the most vulnerable social demographics, harmful practices and violence against women and children, particularly girls, are driven largely by harmful traditional and cultural beliefs and practices. This project is working in various regions within Mali. 

• Interventions seek to raise community awareness on the dangers posed by Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), Gender Based Violence and Child Abuse in the intervention communities. 
• A faith-based approach will be used, where religious leaders will educate communities quoting scriptures. It has been noted that Faith leaders are trusted and valued and that their messages are well received by the communities.
• Alongside this, the project will support women and girls, including those who previously pracriced FGM and have now stopped, to strengthen their economic and social status through supporting income generating activities.

Rakhine state is highly susceptible to frequent cyclones and disasters. The Rohingya people are a stranded community whose movement is frequently restricted, denied or access to basic needs and services are extremely controlled. 

• This project will construct a cyclone shelter which will also operate as a school.  When needed, the shelter will be a point of refuge and communities will be educated on how to access it and use it during a cyclone. 
• Outside of this, the shelter will be a school, fully equipped with all learning materials and equipment. 
• There will also be water and sanitation facilities, including showering/bathing points, improving the safe and private access to bathing facilities for women & girls. 
• One shelter allows for schooling for 600 children (morning & day shifts)
• 50 showering / bathing points, improving access to 1250 women & girls.

Note: This project has been dedicated as a Sadaqah Jariyyah for our beloved brother and team member Bilal Mohammed, who was dedicated to both education, and giving back to his community, and served as his uni MSA Treasurer and the CW Texas Finance Rep. He passed away earlier this year, may Allah grant him the highest ranks of Jannah. Ameen. 

Children in the Saga Gorou village currently are taught in classrooms built from straw, which is exposed to all the weather conditions and also requires annual repairs and rebuilding from parents, leading to missed classes. There is also a lack of water and sanitation facilities, alongside not enough adequate seating (children sitting on the floor, or bringing their own chair in) and teaching supplies. Despite this there is a willing organisation to run the school long-term, but require the support for a concrete built school with the necessary facilities. 

• This project will construct 4 classrooms and an office 
• Construct water & sanitation facilities
• Provide all the necessary furniture and equipment 
• Provide resources for teachers
• Setup and conduct training sessions for school management committee

Lack of access to adequate water supply, insufficient toilet and proper handwashing facilities, and non-practice of hygiene behaviour in schools remain key contributors to hygiene and sanitation challenges. Toilets, handwashing facilities and drinking water points are still evidently inadequate in Gaza schools, according to Ministry of Education and international Water, Sanitation & Health guidelines according to UNICEF. The ratios for student-to-toilet and student-to-handwashing facility are still very high. On average, one toilet caters for 71 students in Gaza and one hand-washing facility caters for 130 in Gaza. The student-to-water point ratio was one water point catering for 158 students.

• This project aims to improve the Water, Sanitation & Health services at 6 public schools in Gaza Strip, to enhance the access of most vulnerable students to safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene in an inclusive and effective learning environment
• The project includes awareness raising activities to promote the importance of good hygiene and cleaning practises

More than 50% of primary school aged children in Somalia are out of education. This is further heightened with a disproportionate impact among girls, extreme poor & rural children.

• This project aims to improve the access to education opportunities, by strengthening governance structures and school safety
• Developing flexible classes, remedial support and intensive basic education

All of which provide viable alternatives for students who have other responsibilities which limit their ability to access traditional education.

Children can find themself in unfortunate circumstances where the primary breadwinner suddenly passes away, leaving them and any relatives in need, in the midst of their education and livelihood. 

• This project aims to support Orphans to provide the funds  to continue and complete their education and cover any needed livelihood costs. 

Schools with poor access to safe drinking water and sanitation facilities can lead to students becoming sick from water-borne infections and other ailments. The ​​Thandokwethu School has no permanent ablution facilities. 

• This project alongside improving the general physical environment of the school, will work on installing proper hand wash, ablution and toilet facilities for the school and conducting awareness sessions in the schools and its surrounding areas to empower teachers and students alike community wide. 
• This will increase access to safer and cleaner ablution facilities that will in turn make the students’ learning experience a more pleasurable one.

Sri Lanka has been experiencing multiple disasters both are of manmade and natural which lasted for more than four decades. Communal violence that takes place once in a year on an average for the last 4-5 years’ time and natural (Tsunami, frequent floods and drought), in addition to the Covid-19 outbreak continue to have significant impacts on the most vulnerable.

• This project aims to build a catch up education mechanism to address the gap found in the education sector and to encourage students to continue their education. 
• One aspect will be to provide bicycles to students who walk long distances to schools to ensure access to education.

Many children are out of education, even at a primary school level. Recently the government of Zanzibar made a commitment to the zero out of school initiative. 

• This project works to identify and enroll children into education. 
• Whilst also working on improving school infrastructure and supporting teaching staff.