Our strategy 

Our mission:

What we do

In education we work within local development plans to:

• Help build the capacity of schools, communities and local government staff to work together to improve data collection, planning, monitoring and evaluation at school level, resulting in a ‘school development plan';
• Provide training and mentoring of school management committees for better school governance;
• Carry out teacher training; and
• Construct classrooms, water supplies, toilets, teacher accommodation, staff rooms, resource centres, as well as provide books, desks, etc.

We pay special attention to ensuring that communities understand their right to a good education for their children. We also work hard to ensure girls access the education they are entitled to. Inevitably we work in the most isolated schools, which government bodies often find hard to reach.

In our income generating programmes we work together with other partners and government to:

• Tackle people's ability to save and to access credit through the setting up of savings and loans groups and working with banks to gain access to credit;
• Train farmers in modern agricultural practices;
• Supply start-up materials and resources like seedlings, seeds and oxen;
• Increase people's knowledge of and access to good markets, linking suppliers to producers;
• Support individual producers to work together to jointly purchase materials and equipment, bulk sell produce and gain peer support; and
• Raise awareness of policies, opportunities and support available to entrepreneurs and those seeking work.