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Partner

Compter sur Demain
Activity : The mission of Compter sur Demain is to help underprivileged children access schooling and live in dignity. The association promotes access to schooling and higher education; provides basic living resources for the most disadvantaged children: food, housing, medical care and prevention, emotional and psychological support; intervenes in emergency situations; supports development initiatives in urban and rural areas.
City : Paris
Country : France
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The Sponsor

Name : Arnaud Donetti
Brand : Fnac
Note from the sponsor : The outcome of this first training year is very positive and the PPR Foundation’s sponsoring for the second year is essential to pursue the association's activities, apart from also showing a strong encouragement for the quality of our action. We hope that during this past year we have convinced you of the integrity of our mission and we thank you in advance for your renewed support.

Training of young women from minority ethnic groups as teacher

Staff Project /
2009

Field	Training
Country	Laos
City	Luang Prabang
Beneficiaries	16 young women from minority ethnic groups in the province of Oudomsay
Number	Between 10 and 20

Context

The Project

Purposes

This project aims to train young women from minority ethnic groups as teachers, in order to address a dual issue:
- in rural areas, women rarely have access to higher education for lack of resources, which limits progress in women's condition;
- in remote rural areas, the lack of competent and motivated teachers is a major impediment for education.

Encouraging access to higher education for young girls from this region will help:
- improve the quality of education for children from minority ethnic groups, particularly girls;
- increase the number of schooled children;
- initiate a women empowerment action.

Activities

The 16 students were chosen during the summer 2009 according to specific criteria: geographic and economic situations of the families, intellectual abilities, motivation to study and teaching vocation. Since September 2009, they are all attending their first-year course to become elementary school or junior high school teachers at the Teacher Education Institute and at the Luang Prabang University for future high school teachers. The training curriculum lasts 3 years. With the help of the funds granted by CSD, the Provincial Government is in charge of financing their registration fees and housing expenses, two round-trips a year to their home province, as well as part of their university supplies and food.
After graduation, the Province has committed to hiring the young women to teach in a school located in their home area. The objective is to divide by half the overcrowded classrooms and open junior high and high school classes.
A women empowerment initiative will concurrently be implemented with the collaboration of the school principal, the heads of families and the Provincial Government. Through their advocacy actions, these teachers will become the spokeswomen of the right to education for girls.