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“It gives me great pleasure to support the work that LCD is undertaking in Africa. Their initiatives are giving hope to many of our rural communities”
The Most Reverend Desmond Tutu, LCD Patron |
At LCD our vision is a world where all children have access to high quality education.
Our mission is, through innovative approaches and projects, to promote access to quality education in rural communities in sub-Saharan Africa.
Striving to improve education
Children in Africa have to overcome many challenges in order to achieve an education. One of the biggest obstacles is a lack of skills and training among teachers and school principals. Whereas many children in Africa can now have a better chance of getting to school, the quality of education they receive there may be poor.
HIV/AIDS and other causes of ill-health represent major barriers to education. Sick children either miss school or perform badly when they are there. Ill-health keeps teachers away from school. Children who are healthy, particularly girls, may be kept away from school to care for sick relatives.
At LCD we believe that well trained teachers working in a well
Across five African countries, LCD is…
· Working with over 2,500 schools
· Training tens of thousands of teachers
· Changing the lives of hundreds of thousands of children
managed school, which has the support of its local community, is essential for children to get a good education and a chance in life. We believe that children must be healthy in order to reap the benefits of education.
At LCD we try to achieve three things:
• To ensure that children can access education
• To ensure that schools provide quality education
• To remove the obstacles to education caused by ill-health and disease
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Our approach
Our approach is guided by three principles:
Innovation: We develop and deliver innovative solutions to address systemic problems within education and health systems.
District-wide interventions: We empower stakeholders (schools, communities, local and national ministries of education) to deliver solutions across entire districts, so that all schools in a given area, not just a select few, benefit from our interventions.
Replication of success: In order to achieve systemic and sustainable change we seek to have successful interventions adopted as standard practice and incorporated into national policy.
Our approach requires us to work in partnership with key stakeholders and within existing systems and resources. Our work supports the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, in particular Universal Primary Education, and development initiatives such as Education for All.
We believe that children in the richer countries of the western world can take action will which bring about positive change for their peers in Africa. We work with schools and teachers in the England & Wales, Ireland, Scotland and the USA to help them develop a greater understanding of what life is like for their peers in Africa. Ultimately we hope that this understanding will encourage them to make choices and take actions that will improve the lives of children in Africa.
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