The aim of the project was to create a group of 50 local teachers — literacy facilitators — who, after completing their training, began working in 50 centres teaching the basics of reading and writing as well as introducing the basics of healthcare prevention. Each of the centres was attended by approximately 25 pupils — children and adults (1,250 in total). The project was carried out in the Libolo district of the Kwanza-Sul province in Angola. The funds were used for travel costs for the literacy facilitators, their small remuneration and teaching materials (boards, notebooks, pens, chalk). The project was supported from the state budget of the Slovak Republic through the SlovakAid official development assistance programme with the sum of EUR 79,268.
Project tasks:
- providing basic education to everyone in remote communities
- training new literacy facilitators
- improving healthcare
- making the study of first-stage pupils more effective
- building a value system for children and teachers
- improving economic independence
- supporting gender equality and the position of girls and women
- engaging the local population in the interest of sustainable development
- oversight of the work of the literacy facilitators
Results achieved:
- reducing the illiteracy rate
- making it easier for young adults to enter the workforce
- making study at state schools easier (tutoring)
- making the work of the literacy facilitators more effective
- reducing economic dependence
- the human, social and economic development of local communities
- access to basic education for the socially disadvantaged
- supporting gender equality and the position of girls and women
- fighting HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
