Education is the key to development and to the improvement of the lives of young people, and as such has been identified as a priority area in internationally agreed development goals, including the SDGs. Education is important in eradicating poverty and hunger and in promoting sustained, inclusive and equitable economic growth and sustainable development. Increased efforts towards education accessibility, quality and affordability are central to national and global development efforts. We promote an integrated education and life skills promotion program that emphasizes the development of both academic knowledge and critical life skills. Evidence shows that whether at school, work or in our personal lives, everyone needs life skills in order to deal effectively with the challenges.
More importantly, education experts believe that such skills, when instilled in learners, are used to boost their education qualifications. Our non-academic school-based interventions are layered with existing school activities. For community engagement in promotion of young people’s education, we work with households and communities to advocate for increased access to quality and affordable education for all. We work and coordinate with communities, schools, CSOs and government institutions to reduce gender inequity in education by promoting education of the girl child. For In-school environmental protection and climate change awareness creation activities, we target schools around protected areas to implement our school-based climate change education programs using the “UN CC: Learn | Integrating Climate Change in Education at Primary and Secondary Level” resource guide.
