Schools for Change, reducing school desertion

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Schools for Change, reducing school desertion

See all photos	Summary Reduce school desertion, by introducing management skills to schools in order to help them improve their performance, generate resources and get involved with their community

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Parents living in poor conditions consider that, starting from a certain age, their children are capable of working at jobs that generate additional income for the family. Also the impact of repeating grades is a factors that drive students to abandonment. For low-income families, the economic cost of a child repeating a grade is nearly impossible to bear. 30% of children from low-income families have significant difficulties to continuing primary school and 50% at the secondary level.

Activities

During capacity-building working meetings, the school members share and exchange opinions and ideas about school desertion and elaborate an action plan to implement during 9 months. A facilitator from Compromiso accompanies this process

Funding Information

This project has been retired and is no longer accepting donations.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

Resources

Project's External Homepage (http://www.compromiso.org)

Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Lower desertion levels. Higher commitment on behalf of school members. Better generation and assignment of resources.Team planning. Taking into account the needs and demands of the students. Better way of thinking of the organization’s goals.