We do not consider our support as “Aid” in the conventional sense. These school projects are what the communities themselves want and have already committed themselves to by starting construction or gathering local materials. We are helping facilitate what they want to do by providing a local Engineer and supervised funding which are both currently beyond these local communities capacity to raise.

All school projects are only accepted on recommendations by our partners EYES after recommendation by the local Bureau of Education (BoE). We work in fully integrated manner with the BoE and local community. We only adopt any new community elementary school upgrading projects with a fully committed local community and school staff which are essential to any success. Few of our schools have any services like water, electricity or communications which is indicative of the areas we are working in.

When we commit to a school we do what we promise, although whatever we are able to do ultimately depends on our ability to raise funds.

Once a school is completed it is handed over in its entirety entirely to the community and BoE to maintain and provide teachers respectively, so it is effectively self-supporting from Day 1.

 A typical school project involves upgrading existing shacks to a modest, sunny and well-ventilated classroom from locally sourced materials as well as labour.  Schools are attended in two shifts. Our schools have installed solar electricity, which allows an evening class shift for those youngsters who are too busy farming to attend at day-time. 

Please get in touch with us if you would like to know more about our current and future schools projects. Email: info@a-cet.org