EAC partners with buildOn and Building Tomorrow
Commenting on the partnerships, Dr. Mary Joy Pigozzi, Director of EAC said: "As we make steady progress towards fulfilling our goal of reaching 10 M children by 2016, we are delighted to be working with buildOn and Building Tomorrow. These partnerships have allowed us to extend our commitment in countries where we already have projects such as Haiti and Uganda, and open opportunities to reach more children in new countries for us such as Nepal and in East Africa".
Working in partnership through a co-funded model, Educate A Child and buildOn will build 520 schools in current buildOn impact areas in Haiti, Senegal, Mali, Malawi, Burkina Faso and Nepal over the next four years to help children in these countries gain access to education.
Commenting on the partnership with Educate A Child, Jim Ziolkowski, Founder, President and CEO of buildOn, said:
“The agreement with buildOn will allow EAC to reach 40,000 out of school children through 520 schools. The partnership will also enable the completion of latrines for girls and boys, procure furniture for all the schools and engage community leaders to help monitor and enrol children into primary education.”
Working with Building Tomorrow also through a co-funded model, EAC will contribute to providing education facilities for nearly 51,000 out of school children in rural Uganda by 2019 through Building Tomorrow’s Educate 51k programme.
George Srour, Building Tomorrow Founder and Chief Dreamer, explains:
“Since our founding in 2006, we have been working toward this moment. We are grateful to Educate A Child for their support, thrilled to have this opportunity, and have already hit the ground running.”
Educate 51k will leverage the support of a network of partners, including the Ugandan Ministry of Education and Sports, more than 300 rural villages across Uganda, and an international community of donors. By July 2019, EAC and Building Tomorrow will open 60 new community-built, locally sustained primary schools, scaling construction to break ground on a new school every three weeks.
Building Tomorrow partners with communities where at least 300 children between the ages of four and fourteen are out of school; no formal and accredited primary school exists within a 2.5-kilometre radius; and parents and families make a financial and in-kind commitment to support the education of their children.
Educate A Child’s partnerships with buildOn and Building Tomorrow are an example of its momentum to achieve its target of reaching 10 million out of school children by 2016. These new partnerships will see 91,000 out of school children be provided access to a quality primary education.
