Burundikids

Thanks to the progress made, there has been increasing demand among young people for more substantial training programs and school certificates. There has been an urgent need to build a school in Ruhororo so as to create additional schooling capacity, increase the educational level among children/young people and a) enable and b) improve the preparation of youngsters for vocational training. In collaboration with the local authorities, the decision was made in view of a shift demand in the population to change the training center in Ruhororo - which had previously offered a simple certificate - into an accredited school offering a four-year educational program (9th - 13th grade) culminating in the A2 certificate (a vocational baccalaureate diploma). As a result, the Ecole Technique de l’Education Environnementale (ETEE) was established with an official curriculum: specialist courses such as agroforestry, ecology, herbal medicine, microbiology and animal breeding, along with general subjects such as languages, math, etc. In the first academic year 2015/16, 50 school students (including 28 girls) had registered at the ETEE. Numbers are expected to double next academic year.

The expansion of the educational program in combination with the more rigorous secondary school standards applied by the Ministry of Education has now led to a lack of space, however. On the one hand there is growing demand among the population for school places, while on the other hand the ministries are applying regulations which are monitored in regular inspections.

This has led to a need for further construction measures as well as additional furnishings and fittings for the school rooms. This is the subject of the current application. The aim is to alleviate the lack of space by building a new classroom. This newly built classroom is to be equipped with school furniture. In order to meet the hygiene requirements of a boarding school, it is also necessary to upgrade the existing sanitary facilities. The existing multi-purpose room, which serves as a dining hall and a study hall, has to be fitted with additional furniture and cooking utensils due to the increasing numbers of students.

Approx. 100 school students at the “Ecole Technique d’Education Environnementale” (ETEE) in 9th - 13th grade, mostly highly underprivileged youngsters from rural areas and some former street children from the project sponsor’s welfare institutions.

2. Eight teachers at the school and one boarding director (the teaching staff is being successively expanded to cope with the increasing number of students and classes).

3. As an extended target group: the school community (at least 600 people: direct target group x 6 people/household).

All in all the study conditions will improve for 100 school students (academic year 2016/17), most of them highly underprivileged youngsters from rural areas in the province of Ngozi as well as former street children and child soldiers from the social projects run by the project sponsor. Fondation Stamm runs supervised residential units and homes for former street children and child soldiers in several regions of the country.

 

Contribute to improving the lives and educational situation of highly underprivileged young people in the rural community of Ruhororo.

G1: Create a concrete basis for improved quality of education and enhanced study conditions for approx. 100 secondary school students.

G2: Add a new classroom for theoretical study and vocational preparation in the area of modern agriculture, cattle breeding and resource preservation.

G3: Add a multi-purpose room for use as cafeteria for boarding school students and create study corners on the school premises.

G4. Additional sanitary facilities for the school and boarding facility.

The aim is to improve the quality of study conditions and the educational level of approx. 100 school students from the rural area in the academic year 2016/17. Learning capacity and student achievement will be raised by the school cafeteria since it creates space for afternoon teaching, examination preparation and boarding school requirements.

1. Furnishings and fittings for a classroom

2. Furnishings and fittings for a multi-purpose room

3. Expansion of sanitary facilities

By installing school furnishings and fittings, additional study capacity is created in the form of a classroom for theoretical teaching, thereby addressing the school’s acute problems of space that are currently impairing the quality of education.

The installation of furniture and fittings and the expansion of the sanitary facilities should ideally start in October 2016 (start of the academic year). It would also be possible to start later, however.

A subsidy of EUR 9,777.12 is requested for this project. The project sponsor’s own contribution and that of the applicant cover the building of the school and running the school and boarding facility.

See attachment for budget details. Partial funding of the budget proposal is possible.

This project does not generate follow-up costs: it is a one-off procurement and development measure.

The school ETEE is run by Fondation Stamm and in part by burundikids e.V.; it is partly funded by its own revenue (e.g. school fees and contributions for food at the school cafeteria).

What is more, the mid-term goal is to cover most of the school’s costs (all costs in the long term) from the school's own revenue (tuition fees paid by students, revenue generated by the complex for services provided by the school laboratory, for example).