Building A Classroom for Quality Education
London, United Kingdom
Organization type:
nonprofit/ngo/citizen sector
Example: Walk us through a specific example(s) of how this solution makes a difference; include its primary activities.
Our model (the #aswegrow- blueprint) consists of three programs:
1) #aswegrow-we teach: Quality Education in the classroom starts with the teacher. This program works with organisations that create and implement teacher training, school methodology and vocational skills programs.
2)#aswegrow - we learn: Quality Education only works with good learning material. This program works with organisations that build the actual school buildings, provide writing equipment, classroom furniture and other vital study materials.
3) #aswegrow - we eat: Quality Education needs to be supported outside of the classroom. This program works with organisations that identify and resolve obstacles that keep a child away from school.
Our primary activities as a non-profit are raising funds and awareness for educational grassroots organisations. We started our activities (as stichtingangels.nl) in 2002 and always experienced problems in understanding/explaining how one (educational) problem related to the other. This overview gives us something very clear and 'universal' to go by. Potential donors as well as grantees now more easily understand the relation between one obstacle and the other and more importantly realise that by only focusing on one element of the classroom, it can never grow as a whole.
We use the model both as a checklist as well as an incentive for grantees to invest in areas where they haven't invested in before.
Marketplace: Who else is addressing the problem outlined here? How does the proposed project differ from these approaches?
We admire many non-profits and social enterprises but the two we feel the closest to are:
- Room to Read: because of their business approach to resolving an educational topic and their idea to relate education to (popular) reading, an activity that we all can identify with.
- Acumen Fund: because of its slow capital philosophy. The investment approach makes it very transparent, yet, due to the fact that a Return on Investment is not directly expected, people can take their time to make their business grow.
We greatly admire UNICEF in the way they gather and communicate about educational statistics in our world.
Currently we are different from the above mentioned organisations as we are smaller and specifically focus on Quality Education rather than on actual access to it.
Organization:
aswegrow
First Name
Aldo
Last Name
de Pape
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Organization Name
aswegrow
Country where this project is creating social impact
, LND, London