Uganda's School for Life: Educating out of Poverty - Rebel Education
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ม.ค. 2017
- In the 21st century, for many young people "finding a job" is just not an option. And in Uganda, with youth unemployment at around 66 percent, the highest rate in Africa, schools need to tailor their education to meet the different needs of society.
Educate! is an experience-based education model where a mentor goes into a secondary school with 40 "scholars". The mentor spends time with the scholars, delivering sessions on entrepreneurship, leadership, critical thinking and problem solving.
The pedagogy enables the use of games, group work and encourages public speaking. The scholars are encouraged to set up businesses, which are open to everyone in the school. They are also encouraged to be responsive to the needs of their local communities.
"Uganda has such a huge young demographic, over 70 percent of the population is actually young people under the age of 30, and the challenge that we are having is that there is a mismatch between the number of students that graduate from school, and the available jobs in the market," Emmanuel Kalyebi, the programme coordinator of Educate! says.
Educate! focuses on making entrepreneurship - not just the theory, but the practise of it - a key part of what they offer.
"One of the things you go through in Uganda's education system [is that] they give you a lot of theoretical knowledge ... What typically happens to most of us is that after school you cannot find employment. You don't have the right skills for you to get employed. So, if an employer is going to give you a job, they have to first train you again [with] skills that ideally education should be providing to you," Kalyebi says.
Lilian Aero Olok joined the Educate! project in 2009 while she was at secondary school. Her project provides counselling and community support to over 100 widows and women affected by HIV/Aids. She mobilises funds for the project by teaching women how to make recycled paper beads which she then buys from them. She is now working with more than 230 women and exports the beads all over the world.
"I want to see a change, I want to see a transformation from being an impoverished community to being a middle income earning community, because poverty, HIV/Aids and single motherhood and widowhood is so high in this area.... Running my own business has helped me pay for myself at school, it has also helped me take my daughter through school, and it also helped me get the lovely house that I have now," Lilian says.
Educate! currently works in over 350 schools in Uganda, with another 100 lined up in the near future. It's vision for 2024 is to measurably impact 1 million students, and reach 4 million students more broadly, across Africa each year.
The film follows a mentor and the "scholars" as they set up a new business in the school. We also track the students as they juggle their studies, home life, and the pressure of making the business successful.
Funds are limited and the only money they will have to invest will come from their profits. But the business skills they learn through real-world projects will prepare them for a future where they will be able to support their families and play a leading role in their communities.
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This is a much needed innovation for Africa. A big thank you to everybody behind it!
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Educate is inspiring..keep it up.
One of Africa's major problem is the lack of actual knowledge and science. You can go in one of these "schools" forever without actually learning anything useful. What a shame.
Check out Kasese Humanist Schools, their motto is 'with science we can progress".
transferable skills for the new 21 century global citizen.. very nice school
it humbles me to see how the girl making pads says they invest their profits in other peoples skills that its not all about money but also about the community, we have lost this in the west, our selfishness has made us blind.
Ive liked it. its really good and educative
proud Ugandan
Education in uganda is just a business for may business men, very few are innovative to introduce the changes required because they look up to the profits.
I can recall going there in the past what a nice gesture still going on I wouldn't mind going down to travel and sightsee and reminisce
We need a documentary about this
EMMA, CAROL its a good one i love it
So Amazing ❤
Fundraising. Construction and Finance are most critical after learning to read, write, and do arithmetic. Poleni sana watu wangu!
Ubuntu Ma'at Ase'🙏🏿 Uhuru
Its Funny Educate are also unemployed Youth. But Africa
bagus lah sekolah2 di uganda ni ajar budak2 buat macam2.. make it improve more skill
African mostly hit with poverty, equality and practical education will help to slowly alleviate it.
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We’re was these school
Tbh, you do not teach people to survive out of school by treating them like 'children'. Stop applying kindergarten methods on teenagers. EVERYTHING that I was taught using such methods evaporated as soon as I left that classroom. Try to be MORE STREET, coz that is what you are PREPARING THEM FOR. Not how to imitate numbers. Teach them HOW to THINK.
I am a little bit confuse on how young women gonna use that, "washable sanitary pads" whereas menstruation bloods are kinda sticky, of course it would be dirty and at the same time, it could cause odor. So, I really think they should just promote their self-made sanitary pads instead of commanding a washable one because in my own opinion, it could really be weird.
Betty's washable pads are reusable when washed in proper soap. The way cloth diapers were the norm for babies in the United States up into the 1970s. This idea is very Green and economical. Ase'🙏🏿 Uhuru.