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The mission of the Ishahayi Beach School Foundation is to promote and foster the education of Nigerian children, particularly in the remote Ishahayi/Ikaare area of Lagos State.

"To provide special children with education & training facilities to enhance their capabilities and rehabilitate them in the society" To provide medical, psycho-educational, speech & language assessment and therapy services to CWDs (Children with Disabilities) enrolled at Rising Sun Institute or referred by different specialists & professionals Human Resource Development for teaching and training of Rising Sun and other similar institutions To promote Inclusive Education by orientation of regular school teachers about special needs and inclusive education so that more and more special children are given education along with their peers in their own environment To create community awareness about needs of Inclusive Education for CWDs and role of community & to prepare literature for the parents of CWDs and to train them to look after their children

Goal AdvocAid's goal is to strengthen access to justice for girls, women and their children in conflict with the law, foster an increased ability for women to understand and claim rights and to empower them as active citizens. Objectives 1. Strengthen access to legal education; legal advice and legal representation for girls and women in conflict with the law 2. Provide targeted preventative legal education messages and training to groups of vulnerable girls and women in conflict with the law 3. Ensure that girls, women and children who are detained are able to reintegrate successfully into their communities after release through provision of skills training education and welfare support 4. Engage in strategic capacity building, advocacy and public awareness raising in relation to issues affecting girls, women and their children in conflict with the law

The Latin Programme - Via Facilis improves English literacy in underachieving State Primary Schools through the study of Latin and English grammar. The Latin Programme is conscious that "one in six people in the UK struggle with literacy. This means their literacy is below the level expected of an eleven-year-old" (Department for Education, 2003). This underachievement in literacy is particularly evident in the case of disadvantaged children, "In 2007, only 35% of five year olds in the most deprived areas reached the expected level of attainment, compared to 51% of pupils in other areas [] This gap grows throughout school years so that by GCSE levels only 21% of disadvantaged pupils achieved 5+ A*-C GCSEs including English and Maths in 2007 compared to 49% of nonFSM pupils" (Department for Children, Schools and Families, 2009). As a result The Latin Programme is committed to finding innovative ways to help State Primary School children achieve a better performance in literacy and improve their life prospects. We concentrate on the link between literacy levels and future prospects because individuals with good literacy skills "are more likely to have higher self-esteem, better health, better jobs and higher wages than those with poor literacy skills." (National Literacy Trust)

The Learning Farm goal is to empower vulnerable youth across Indonesia to become independent, contributing, and responsible members of community. Mission: Establishing a safe, nurturing and productive learning environment Instilling essential life skills and core values through the learning medium of organic farming Developing environmental responsibility Creating a sustainable network of alumni who are actively engaged with the community Ensuring continuous staff development Maintaining accountability to all stakeholders

Vision: One day all children will attain an excellent education. Mission: Create a movement of lifelong leaders working from within various sectors to eliminate educational inequity in the country.

To enable health professionals, institutions, patients and health consumers working in the health care sector, to obtain the best evidence from systematic research, in order to ensure accurate delivery and availability of optimal health care services.

is to work at provincial, district and school levels, together with partners, to create positive societal attitudes, policies and practices that promote equity for girls in terms of access, retention, performance and quality of education.

ITA's mission is to "actively pursue universal access and standard setting in education as a comprehensive learning experience for human evolution and consciousness by creating contemporary education systems for all children without discrimination due to gender, class, age, religion, color and ethnicity and, endeavoring to address educational bottlenecks through timely resource mobilization and influencing of public policy".

We seek to improve the habitability conditions as well as promote resilience of indigenous, rural communities in Mexico by facilitating a sustainable self-management of the social, economic and environmental factors for rural development. We employ holistic approaches that recover traditional knowledge and improve the relationship between society and nature.

Vision: A developed democratic country with good governance, respect to constitutional rights of people (women and men) and good relations with international community Mission: To contribute in enhancing peace and development in Afghanistan in linkage to the regional and global changes Purpose: To contribute in changing the perceptions and behaviors of Afghans through awareness raising, civic education, capacity building, advocacy, research, campaigning and service delivery

The mission of OBLF is to bring basic English comprehension and Computer skills to children attending the mass schooling system in India, to provide them an equal opportunity to gain meaningful employment on reaching adulthood. The foundation works as a partner to the state government and adopts state run/public elementary schools in India. In a country with a billion plus population about 70% of 200 million children who are in elementary schools attend public schools. Reports have told us year on year about the massive learning deficit in the public schooling system. Some of the issues this system is plagued with are poor content, teacher absenteeism, learning by rote and very poor teacher ratios. The foundation uses the existing infrastructure of public schools mainly in remote rural areas. The children in the adopted schools are divided into levels/groups based on their English skills (and not according to age). The foundation has designed its own child friendly syllabi for each level and uses laptops and tablets (technologies these children have never been exposed to) and other fun filled teaching techniques to teach. The foundation's strategy is to train and employ semi-educated rural women on a part time basis (this doesn't disturb the rural ethos) to teach in the adopted schools. These women whom we call coordinators are mainly homemakers and live in the rural communities where the adopted schools are. Every adopted school has several children divided into three levels (Junior, Middle and Senior), a few coordinators to do the teaching and urban volunteers who take ownership of the school and mentor the coordinators and supervise the work being done in the school. Children undergo baseline assessments at the beginning of the school year and then another assessment at the end of an academic year. We also assess a small number of children who attend the schools but are not in the foundation's School Adoption Program. Children who are in the program have consistently performed way better than the ones in the control group.