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More than two-third population of our beneficiaries study in the rural areas and majority of them do have the means to finance their school needs.They have for years lived in the situation of extreme deprivation and poverty and even now they barely manage to provide themselves more than bare minimum. Needless to say, education and schooling of children was never
a priority for the communities in these villages. In addition due to many reasons including social taboo, inaccessibility, violent situations, child labours, and severe lack of awareness in people the children here were never encouraged to attend school. But now with schools close by these children are looking ahead to a good future. EFAO is out to induct youths especially those who have never been to school, or are school drop-outs, and gives them basic education, coupled with nutrition and health care. Child-friendly facilities, including interactive learning tools and games allow these children to grow up in an environment conducive for their holistic development. EFAO also provides counselling to parents to make them understand the importance of education. Promoting developmental workshops among the rural tribal communities is also a part of the project
VISION STATEMENT
EFAO don't yet have the words to describe the hope you give EFAO for the future. Your initiative to join EFAO is full of promise, and we hope you will be happy and helpful to EFAO, so you can explore it fully. You've already given EFAO a reason to reflect on the world we hope live in as our children with special needs will be given a reason to be.
• Like all Organizations, we want the new generation to grow up in a world better than ours today as engage an inspire youths
Provide capacity building trainings through workshops
Promote access to information
Guidance and consultancy
Initiate and implement youth support projects
Initiate community needs projects
Provide innovative solutions, to the numerous social issues faced by our people especially youths,girls,underprivillaged and also the physically challenged...
While headlines often focus on what's wrong, in many ways the world is getting better. Poverty is shrinking. Knowledge is growing. People are connecting. Technological progress in every field means your life should be dramatically better than ours today. EFAO will do it part to make this happen, not only because we love you, but also because we have a moral responsibility to all children in the next generation. We believe all lives have equal value, and that includes the many more people who will live in future generations than live today. Our Organization has an obligation to invest now to improve the lives of all those coming into this world, not just those already here. But right now in rural communities, we don't always collectively direct our resources at the biggest opportunities and problems your generation will face. We consider Education first . Today we spend about 50 times more as a society training people who are ignorant than we invest in research so you won't get in the first place without considering education first as a priority. Education has only been a real asset for less than 100 years, and we've already seen complete reasons for some failures of development as progress for mankind in rural communities. As technology accelerates, we have a real shot at preventing, curbing or managing all or most of the rest in the next 100 years. Once EFAO realised that education is an everlasting solution to problems facing mankind and that if EFAO influence Education in rural communities, next generation may not have to suffer , we collectively have a responsibility to tilt our investments a bit more towards the future to make this reality. Curing disease will take time but educating on causes will or may be a permanent solution. Over short periods of five or ten years, it may not seem like we're making much of a difference. But over the long term, seeds planted now will grow, and one day, EFAO will make the world to see what we can only imagine: a world without illiteracy. There are so many opportunities just like this. If EFAO focuses more of its energy on these great challenges, EFAO will leave the new generation a much better world. Our hopes for children living and future generations focus on two ideas: advancing human potential and promoting human resource development. Advancing human potential is about pushing the boundaries on how great a human life can be. Can you learn and experience 100 times more than we do today? Can we connect the world so you have access to every idea, person and opportunity? Can we harness more HUMAN RESOURCE so you can invent things we can't conceive of today while protecting the environment? Can we cultivate entrepreneurship so you can build any business and solve any challenge to grow peace and prosperity? Promoting education is about making sure everyone has access to these opportunities -- regardless of the nation, families or circumstances they are born into. Our society must do this not only for justice or charity, but for the greatness of human progress. EFAO goodwill initiative 2016 is your own turn
Today we are robbed of the potential so many have to offer. The only way to achieve our full potential is to channel the talents, ideas and contributions of every person in the world. Can our generation eliminate poverty and hunger? Can we provide everyone with basic education? Can we build inclusive and welcoming communities? Can we nurture peaceful and understanding relationships between people of all nations? Can we truly empower everyone -- women, children, underrepresented minorities, and the unconnected? If our EFAO makes the right investments, the answer to each of these questions can be yes -- and hopefully within our lifetime. This mission statement -- advancing human potential and promoting equality -- will require a new approach for all working towards these goals. The greatest challenges require very long time horizons and cannot be solved by short term thinking. We must engage directly with the people we serve. We can't empower people if we don't understand the needs and desires of their communities. We must build technology to make change. Many institutions invest money in these challenges, but most progress comes from productivity gains through innovation. We must participate in policy and advocacy to shape debates. Many institutions are unwilling to do this, but progress must be supported by movements to be sustainable. We must back the strongest and most independent leaders in each field. Partnering with experts is more effective for the mission than trying to lead efforts ourselves. We must take risks today to learn lessons for tomorrow. We're early in our learning and many things we try won't work, but we'll listen and learn and keep improving. Our experience with personalized learning, internet access, and community education and our children outreach programs like our workshop of 12th July has shaped our philosophy. We need children to grow up in classrooms where they will all learn the same things at the same pace regardless of our interests or needs and at the same time will benefit from our upcoming community human resource centers like the present project in Banten villagge. EFAO will set goals for what our children want to become -- like an engineer, health worker, writer or community leader. Tomorrow will have technology that understands how children learn best and where they need to focus. They will advance quickly in subjects , and get as much help as they need in rural communities or most challenging areas. EFAO will explore topics that aren't even offered in schools today. EFAO team will also have better tools and data to help youth achieve their goals. Children in rural communities around the world will be able to use personalized learning tools , even if they don't live near good schools. Of course it will take more than technology to give everyone a fair start in life, but personalized learning can be one scalable way to give all children a better education and more equal opportunity. We're starting to build this strategies and capabilities now, and the results are already promising for EFAO and it partners. Not only do students perform better on tests, but they gain the skills and confidence to learn anything they want thanks to our past scholarships even though not the best. And this journey is just beginning. EFAO and it partners have both seen what it takes to make this work. It will take working with the strongest leaders in education to help schools around the world adopt personalized learning. It will take engaging with communities, which is why we're starting in our Nkum Area community. It will take building new strategies and trying new ideas. And it will take making mistakes and learning many lessons before achieving these goals. But once we understand the world we can create for your generation, we have a responsibility as a society to focus our investments on the future to make this reality. Together, we can do this. Many of the greatest opportunities will come from giving everyone access to education in rural communities in Africa. Some people in rural communities take education for granted. But for the majority of people in the world, Education can be a lifeline. Yet still more than half of the world's children -- more than 14 billion peuples -- don't have access to teacher nor the means to study. If EFAO connects them, we can lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. We can also help hundreds of millions of children get an education and save millions of lives. This is another long term effort that can be advanced by community outreach programs and partnership.
