Education Charities
In the developing world, as everywhere, it’s education that provides children
and adults with the skills they need to address social issues, break the
cycle of poverty, and improve the health and well- being of their communities.
Prospero uses the term in two ways.
Firstly and echoing the UN Millennium Development Goal that by 2015, children everywhere will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling, Prospero uses the term to highlight targeted projects that deliver education either through a formal or an informal curriculum. This includes both primary and secondary educational projects.
Secondly, Prospero uses the term to highlight organisations undertaking educational projects to benefit the community at large. This includes disease prevention, health education, skills training and social change.
| Charity | Description |
|---|---|
| Acid Survivors Trust International | Provides medical treatment and other support to the survivors of violent acid attacks in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Uganda and Pakistan. |
| Aseema | Works to provide Mumbai's street children and slum dwellers with an excellent early years education. |
| Beetje Beter | Supports children in Stung Meanchey, Phnom Penh's notorious rubbish dump, into education instead of child labour. |
| Better Burmese Health Care | Provides high quality healthcare to very poor families living in the slums of Yangon. |
| Burma Children's Fund | Practical support to orphans and vulnerable young children in Myanmar. |
| Child In Need Institute UK | Helps poor mothers and children in India by improving their education, health and nutrition. |
| Engaged Events | Organises the Palestine Festival of Literature (Palfest), promoting cultural exchange and understanding by taking international writers to the West Bank for a series of readings and dialogues. |
| The Haller Foundation | Promotes and enables ecological community development in Kenya. |
| Fotokids | Teaches camera and media technology skills to young people from slum areas in Guatemala. |
| Ibtada | Supports impoverished communities in Alwar, one of Rajasthan’s most marginalised areas, improving living conditions through education, adult literacy and microfinance initiatives. |
| I-India | Provides shelter, food, education and vocational training to more than 3,000 street children each day in Jaipur. |
| Link Emergency Aid and Development | Provides support to some of the 2.4 million victims of Cyclone Nargis in the remotest areas of Myanmar's Irrawady Delta. |
| MondoChallenge Foundation | Combines volunteer placements with development projects and strategic grants to bring long-term improvement to local communities around the world. |
| Off the Street Kids | Provides support, including accommodation, life-skills training and educational opportunities to marginalized young people in Cape Town. |
| Promoting Equality in African Schools | Builds schools in Uganda and pays teachers’ salaries for one year until each school becomes self-supporting. |
| Supporting Orphans and Indigent People of Cambodia for Development Organisation | Supports the education, health and nutrition of 100 children from chronically poor families in the slums of Siem Reap, Cambodia. |
| Sponsored Arts for Education | Encourages public education in Africa by empowering young people to use the arts to communicate health education messages in crisis communities. |
| The Synergy Theatre Project | Works with prisoners and ex prisoners in London, using theatre, both as a tool for rehabilitation, and as a method of engaging the public in the wider issues surrounding imprisonment. |
| Themba Interactive | Uses theatre forums and workshops in South Africa to change behaviour and prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS. |
| War Child | Works with children held in detention, living in conflict or post-conflict zones, including Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq and Uganda. |
| Zimbabwe Benefit Foundation | Works to provide relief for the most vulnerable people in Zimbabwe in rapidly changing conditions. |