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In 2018, CouldYou? will train and equip 360 teachers with the necessary tools to identify illiterate students and work to get them literate in 5 months. This will impact 22,000 students and every future classroom
Sky-high unemployment rates and deteriorated families set the backdrop for Mozambique’s children.
Economic dependence on South Africa, severe drought, and a prolonged civil war slow the country’s development. Despite rich natural resources and sprawling agriculture,
Mozambique remains one of the poorest and most underdeveloped countries in the world.
With current political stability and economic growth, and the recent discoveries of vast reserves of coal, natural gas and oil, many doors are opening for work. Sadly, the lack of education perpetuates a void of educated workers and prevents locals from equitably benefiting from foreign investment.
Mozambique is embarking on an ambitious education initiative to leapfrog the current education gap in order to address the deficit of skilled laborers. CouldYou? developed a 20-year plan; a low-cost, sustainable model to improve education in Mozambique. This initiative will transform the education system in the country, ultimately dismantling the chains of extreme poverty with a goal to expand into all of Africa.
In partnership with the Ministry of Education, we are training teachers how to identify illiterate students and get them literate in 5 months. In addition, we are providing free community literacy classes for adults.
This is an unprecedented opportunity to impact every child in Mozambique. Over the next 10 years, our literacy program could impact 16.7 million school-aged children, as 62% of the population of Mozambique is between the ages of 5 and 25.
As a result of the initiative:
In addition, as Chair of the Africa Forum of Former African Heads of State and Government, President Chissano is uniquely positioned to replicate this literacy initiative to other African countries, so the impact can truly be continent-wide.
Our CY Literacy Country Director was just hired by the Mozambican Ministry of Education to teach his literacy class to 800 teachers in 2018!