Development Ratings

Improving literacy rates: Primary education support is key to achieving basic literacy and numeracy.

Expanding educational opportunities and quality: A weather-proof classroom is clearly preferable to more make-shift arrangements. More regular primary attendance, and lower drop-out rates, will result in improved literacy and potential graduation to secondary school. School plans will impact quality and results. This will improve overall levels of education and exam results, and impact life-time earnings potential.

Spreading entrepreneurship: Vocational skills & enterprise training helps young people become independent wage-earners. The successful pilot loan scheme borrowers and other trained youth have improved their position as buyers and sellers of goods & services. This impacts the local economy.

Broadening HIV/AIDS and gender awareness: Villagers benefit from awareness projects. Infected young people can be supported by the charity to find ways to earn themselves a living.

Improving sanitary conditions: Improved toilet facilities and running water clearly positively impacts the overall health of pupils. Less over-crowding in schools that have larger classrooms built means disease transmission is lower. Girls are less vulnerable with more secure toilet facilities.

Improved focus: Child sponsorship does not tackle the main causes of poverty and tends to encourage dependency. Education and youth training impacts development and is self-sustaining.