The Canadian Corner in Magara is a all-women-managed library and community centre project by the NGD Foundation currently under fundraising process.
OVERVIEW:
- Title: Canadian Corner in Magara – “An all-women-managed Public Library and Community Centre.”
- Target Population: Young Girls in rural Burundi.
- Beneficiary Country: BURUNDI.
- Direct Beneficiary: More than 10,000 Young Girls directly and 10,000 Boys indirectly – mostly students.
- Sector: Education, Basic Education, Basic Life Skills for Youth, Basic Health, Reproductive Health, Human Rights, Ending Violence Against Women and Girls, and Infectious Disease Control.
DESCRIPTION:
NGD Foundation's project aims at improving the lives of children and youth in a disadvantaged rural zone in West-South part of Burundi, a Francophone nation of East Africa, residing in localities that were severely torn apart by a 12 year-civil war and couple of political crisis that Burundi went through. The project is designed to use seminars, courses, and book reading as tools to engage youth, especially young girls, in areas of life skills, gender equality, talents development (including leadership, discipline, tolerance, teamwork, and entrepreneurship), and disease and pandemic virus prevention (such as Ebola, Covid19, Malaria, and HIV/AIDS).
The project also aims at implementing a gender responsive and conflict sensitive education program for young girls affected by numerous civil and political crises that this nation has known. The project seeks to reduce barriers to education, especially for young girls in ghettos and rural areas, and empower them with self-confidence and teamwork skills through administrative roles at the Centre and apprentices programs. The project plans to develop new models of gender responsive methodologies, which support teenage girls, including adolescent mothers and girls with disabilities, to access alternative education, re-enter school system, and well integrate in society.
The Project activities include: (1) providing lessons and courses to help young girls advance well at school and perform better in academics; (2) establishing support mechanisms for learning techniques so that young girls may do better in classes; (3) organising friendly learning environments for strengthening interpersonal skills, developing learning skills and evaluating level of development; (4) increasing community engagement through leaders, educators, and parents to reduce barriers that are preventing education for girls, including those with disabilities; (5) supporting girls clubs and peer groups to develop knowledge and skills in and out of school; and (6) hand-on training skills for young adults through apprentices programs.
The project works in partnership with other local organisations. The project leverages NGD Foundation’s long experience working with the youth, saving lives and rebuilding brighter future for youths, and unique and proven gender responsive play based learning methodology through learning new skills and reading books.
EXPECTED RESULTS:
The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) increased equitable access to inclusive, safe, and gender-responsive education for girls, including those with disabilities, in rural communities; (2) improved innovative, protective, and gender-responsive learning in basic education for girls, including those with disabilities, in rural communities; (3) about children 20,000 participated in daily learning activities and developed strong skills; (4) over 100 youth led initiatives to address important community issues like health awareness, clean-up campaigns, and child protection issues like child labour and child abuse; (5) youth leadership skills will significantly increase and will result in empowered young people being able to spearhead change in their communities; (6) empowered girls will perform much better in the classroom and will demonstrate leadership roles resulting in community leadership.
These results will help children and youth, especially girls, to improve their life skills, such as leadership, cooperation and self-confidence, and become healthier, thanks to sports and learning to avoid illnesses and understanding reproductive health (for those in young adult age). Children and youth in participating communities will also be increasingly motivated to attend school because of the improved learning environments. Finally, this all-women-managed community centre in a rural Burundi area will be able, at the end of this project, to autonomously carry on centre and education programs while financially independently of NGD Foundation and external funding.
- Target Population: Young Girls in rural Burundi.
- Beneficiary Country: BURUNDI.
- Direct Beneficiary: More than 10,000 Young Girls directly and 10,000 Boys indirectly – mostly students.
- Sector: Education, Basic Education, Basic Life Skills for Youth, Basic Health, Reproductive Health, Human Rights, Ending Violence Against Women and Girls, and Infectious Disease Control.
DESCRIPTION:
NGD Foundation's project aims at improving the lives of children and youth in a disadvantaged rural zone in West-South part of Burundi, a Francophone nation of East Africa, residing in localities that were severely torn apart by a 12 year-civil war and couple of political crisis that Burundi went through. The project is designed to use seminars, courses, and book reading as tools to engage youth, especially young girls, in areas of life skills, gender equality, talents development (including leadership, discipline, tolerance, teamwork, and entrepreneurship), and disease and pandemic virus prevention (such as Ebola, Covid19, Malaria, and HIV/AIDS).
The project also aims at implementing a gender responsive and conflict sensitive education program for young girls affected by numerous civil and political crises that this nation has known. The project seeks to reduce barriers to education, especially for young girls in ghettos and rural areas, and empower them with self-confidence and teamwork skills through administrative roles at the Centre and apprentices programs. The project plans to develop new models of gender responsive methodologies, which support teenage girls, including adolescent mothers and girls with disabilities, to access alternative education, re-enter school system, and well integrate in society.
The Project activities include: (1) providing lessons and courses to help young girls advance well at school and perform better in academics; (2) establishing support mechanisms for learning techniques so that young girls may do better in classes; (3) organising friendly learning environments for strengthening interpersonal skills, developing learning skills and evaluating level of development; (4) increasing community engagement through leaders, educators, and parents to reduce barriers that are preventing education for girls, including those with disabilities; (5) supporting girls clubs and peer groups to develop knowledge and skills in and out of school; and (6) hand-on training skills for young adults through apprentices programs.
The project works in partnership with other local organisations. The project leverages NGD Foundation’s long experience working with the youth, saving lives and rebuilding brighter future for youths, and unique and proven gender responsive play based learning methodology through learning new skills and reading books.
EXPECTED RESULTS:
The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) increased equitable access to inclusive, safe, and gender-responsive education for girls, including those with disabilities, in rural communities; (2) improved innovative, protective, and gender-responsive learning in basic education for girls, including those with disabilities, in rural communities; (3) about children 20,000 participated in daily learning activities and developed strong skills; (4) over 100 youth led initiatives to address important community issues like health awareness, clean-up campaigns, and child protection issues like child labour and child abuse; (5) youth leadership skills will significantly increase and will result in empowered young people being able to spearhead change in their communities; (6) empowered girls will perform much better in the classroom and will demonstrate leadership roles resulting in community leadership.
These results will help children and youth, especially girls, to improve their life skills, such as leadership, cooperation and self-confidence, and become healthier, thanks to sports and learning to avoid illnesses and understanding reproductive health (for those in young adult age). Children and youth in participating communities will also be increasingly motivated to attend school because of the improved learning environments. Finally, this all-women-managed community centre in a rural Burundi area will be able, at the end of this project, to autonomously carry on centre and education programs while financially independently of NGD Foundation and external funding.
RELATED INFORMATION:
Information will be provided upon request to further explain the project and help understand points mentioned in this project proposal. As for our financial statements, kindly visit: http://global.nsengiyumva.org/financials/.
This All-women-managed Library and Community Centre, the only one in the country, will be a first project of its kind in Burundi, and probably in many parts of the World, and will raise the Canadian flag high by demonstrating the valuable place a woman has in society and proving to rural communities that women are as much able as men are.
Done at Magara, March 14, 2021