Table Of ContentDeborah Glassman Kristin Helmore
Associate Editor
Jordan Naidoo
Fred Wood Chloe O’Gara
Editors Contributor
Community Schools
in Africa
Reaching the Unreached
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Community Schools in Africa
Community Schools in Africa:
Reaching the Unreached
Co-Editors: Deborah Glassman
Jordan Naidoo
Fred Wood
Associate Editor: Kristin Helmore
Contributor: Chloe O’Gara
Co-Editors: Associate Editor:
Deborah Glassman Kristin Helmore
Jordan Naidoo
Fred Wood
Contributor:
Chloe O’Gara
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Dedication
This book is dedicated to the children, communities and schools who
implemented the community school initiative with Save the Children in four
countries. Their vision, dedication, commitment, savvy, and hard work to
improve their collective and individual futures are the essential heart of each
community school.
Contents
List of Photographs.....................................................................................................ix
Abbreviations and Acronyms.................................................................................xiii
Summary....................................................................................................................xvii
Jordan Naidoo
Contributing Authors............................................................................................xxiii
Acknowledgments.................................................................................................xxix
Chapter 1.......................................................................................................................1
Community Schools: The Solution to Local Needs
Fred Wood
Chapter 2.......................................................................................................................9
Mali, 1992–2003: The First Experiment
Deborah Glassman and Mamadou Millogo
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Chapter 3.....................................................................................................................37
Malawi, 1994–2003: Training on a National Scale
Amy Jo Dowd and Lester Namathaka
Chapter 4.....................................................................................................................75
Ethiopia, 1992–2001: Helping Communities Fill the Education Gap
Fred Wood and Mengistu Edo Koricha
Chapter 5..................................................................................................................101
Uganda, 1999–2005: Transferring to Government Control
Bonita Birungi, Hadijah Nandyose, Fred Wood and Catherine Kennedy
Chapter 6..................................................................................................................133
USAID and Community Schools in Africa: The Vision, the Strategy,
the Commitment
Yolande Miller-Grandvaux
Chapter 7..................................................................................................................155
Supply-Side Education: Africa’s Home-grown Schools
Joe DeStefano
Chapter 8..................................................................................................................171
What’s Next for Community Schools?
Jordan Naidoo
Index..........................................................................................................................195
List of Photographs
Schoolchildren in Mozambique at a Save the Children community school..................1
The village of Niamou, Mali, site of a Save the Children community school..............9
Village children in Mali........................................................................................11
Girls in Blakala classroom....................................................................................13
Girl pounding maize..............................................................................................14
Bohi village school committee meeting......................................................................16
Classroom in Blakala, Mali..................................................................................17
Boys plowing a field................................................................................................17
A student leads the class........................................................................................19
Teaching in French in Mali...................................................................................20
School children in Blakala, Mali...........................................................................23
School children at work in a classroom at the Blakala school..................................24
Blakala classroom, Mali........................................................................................25
School children at the Blakala school......................................................................27
Malian school children in a race.............................................................................28
A girl gets a drink of purified water at the Blakala school......................................29
School children in front of their village school..........................................................31
Malawian school children in front of the Malenga primary school, which
serves 96 pupils. SC is working to provide new classroom blocks, school
materials and furniture......................................................................................37
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Children at the primary school in Nikisi stage a drama in English. Their
cement block classroom, built by the community with help from SC,
accommodates 327 students...............................................................................39
Community members build a new school in Namisi................................................41
A teachers’ training workshop................................................................................44
Students act out a scene to practice their English.....................................................48
Children study math using the mayerengero in Standard Two.................................49
Community members gather for a meeting while children play with tires..................52
A teacher in class at the Malenga primary school...................................................55
Teaching a large class outdoors at the Namisi school while the new school
that Save the Children is helping to build is being completed...............................56
Students act out a scene as part of English class.....................................................59
A crowded classroom at the Malenga primary school, before the new school
was built...........................................................................................................62
Children attend class outside at the Namisi school until the new school that
Save the Children is helping to build is completed...............................................65
Teaching in Ethiopia at a Save the Children school that is under
construction.......................................................................................................75
A mother brings her child to the Gode Therapeutic Feeding Center in
Ethiopia...........................................................................................................77
A nomad in front of her home................................................................................78
School children attend class outside while their new school building is being
constructed.........................................................................................................83
Two girls wait for their PIE school to open.............................................................84
A teacher in a PIE school uses cut-out letters to teach the alphabet.........................86
Children playing ball outside their school................................................................87
A school committee member teaches his children while a new school is being
built..................................................................................................................89
Teaching in a classroom under construction.............................................................91
A class in session in a sponsorship school...............................................................92
An Ethiopian boy.................................................................................................94
List of Photographs xi
Teaching in a newly constructed classroom...............................................................97
A six-year-old girl with her exercise book...............................................................98
Learning English at a Ugandan school................................................................101
A CHANCE school in the village of Kibuye......................................................103
Help with the lesson.............................................................................................106
CHANCE school, Kibuye Village.....................................................................108
Teaching at a CHANCE Learning Center........................................................109
Teaching the digestive system at a CHANCE Learning Center..........................112
A class works out a problem at a CHANCE Learning Center..........................114
Pupils at a CHANCE school work together to solve a math problem..................118
Pupils study human and animal anatomy.............................................................120
Students work together at a CHANCE school...................................................123
Help from the teacher...........................................................................................127
A pupil at a CHANCE school..........................................................................129
