What We Do - Education

Education is key to human development. Church World Service supports partners engaged in a variety of locally-designed educational and training initiatives targeted to vulnerable groups such as women, street children, migrants, minorities, indigenous peoples, and the urban poor. Overall, the programs coordinate with and/or strengthen local educational structures.

Examples of current projects:

School Safe Zones Program
Improving small-scale businesses and literacy in the Korogocho slums, Mathare Valley, Kenya
Two communities in Kenya and Uganda gain water – and education for girls
Two communities in Kenya and Uganda gain water – and education for girls
Support for KOINONIA's 2007-2009 Triennial Plan, Brazil
Blankets and mosquito nets for ethnic minority boarding schools in Laos
Akha access to education, Laos
Basic Primary Education Improvement, Laos
Micro-Credit for Poor Women in Majiacha Village, Gansu, China
Sitting Down to Learn in Mozambique
Improving Schools in Quan Chu, Northern Vietnam
Preparatory Education Program for Roma School Children, Serbia
Providing Education and Vocational Training for Young People in Haiti
Services for Children Working as Domestic Workers, Haiti
Training Afro Colombian Organizations to Influence Public Policies, Colombia
Advocacy and Services to Children Working as Garbage Collectors and their Families, Uruguay
Community Health Organizing & Advocacy, Chile
Roundtable Program, Egypt
Skills Training, Laos
Battambang-Banteay Meanchey Partnership, Cambodia
Girls' Education and HIV/AIDS Awareness, Mozambique
Christian Council of Mozambique Core Activities Program, Mozambique
Orphan & Vulnerable Children Micro-Enterprise/Scholarship Fund, Rwanda