By Lauren Thorn | Online Community Manager
More than 67 million children worldwide are not in school, including one in four in Africa. Education unlocks and fuels a child's potential as a proven path out of poverty, and Opportunity is putting education into action in Uganda. With your support, Opportunity’s Education Finance initiative is positively impacting schools and students throughout the country where 100,727 children are positively impacted by the program. Some of these students attend Jet Valley Primary School, an Opportunity School Improvement loan client that launched a girls club that embarked on a social enterprise project aimed at having a positive impact on the environment. The students brainstormed to solve issues the school and student body were facing and identified a common desire to address a soil erosion problem that was putting the school compound, its buildings and classrooms at risk of structural issues.
After completing research, they adopted a solution to plant grass and flowers within and surrounding the school compound to provide cover and reduce erosion. The young leaders compiled an action plan and showed excellent teamwork, exhibiting their newly developed confidence as they presented it to school administrators. Club members developed a budget implementing what they had learned in their Planning and Budgeting training to develop a realistic request of $24.88 to purchase seed, fertilizer and gardening equipment. The administrators agreed and the group began demarcating and tiling quadrangles around the school in April 2015 and began planting in June.
The club and school proprietor are quite pleased with the progress and impressed with the new level of pride students are showing in the school. This project and the Planning and Budgeting training the students received gave them a broader understanding about the importance of budgeting and practical plans for putting savings into practice. This holistic approach to education has kept girls in the classroom and helped Jet Valley Primary School improve infrastructure and quality of education for its many students.
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