The main challenges are poor and unsustainable educational and life outcomes of learners due to unfriendly and unsafe learning environments in schools (e.g. bullying, abuse, mockery, violence) which affect negatively learning and to some extent lead to school drop outs. The risk of school dropouts is increasing due to lack of connectivity to appropriate support systems.
The innovative model improves learners’ four core abilities which are ability to Connect (to their educational and support systems), ability to Relate (with their educational and support systems), ability to Learn (for educational and life outcomes) and ability to Act (be performance/ goal oriented).
Children in targeted schools showed marked improvement in academic performance, participation in class, love for reading and learning, improved classroom attendance, social interaction and behavior. The boy child transformed to being respectful, supportive and kind to the girl child due to the social emotional strengths which we enhanced in the learners. The girl child’s confidence and courage improved their participation in classroom and their academic performance.
It has a handbook and uses technology to enhance learning and upscale.
https://reach-all.org/our-impact/
The program has reached about 1500 children (Literacy skills and environmental awareness) who improved in academic performance, literacy proficiency and acquired responsible behavior. Some learners who benefitted from our programming were able to open reading/ literacy clubs in other schools thereby contributing to improvement of literacy proficiency and academic performance of other learners.
https://reach-all.org/beneficiary-learners-expanding-literacy-initiatives-to-another-school-zambia/
The organization has trained 250 teachers and various partner organizations so that it may reach about 10 000 children in the next two years.
If any institution or individual would like to try out or adopt the solution to their context they should do the following:
1. Contact us so that our Education Program Coordinator can hear your plan and context: https://reach-all.org/contact-us/
2. Training - 2 days online capacity building training to understand the model
Our trainer is https://reach-all.org/priscilla-mwambo/
