EDUCATION

In Africa, the access to education and to training remains a male privilege, particularly in the rural areas. The deficiency of academic infrastructure, the number of students as well as the shortage of family revenue drives the parents to make a choice: quite often, all their children won't go to school, in particular, the girls. They think that school will be less useful for them, that their work is above all to help their mothers in domestic chores.

With the arrival of water in the villages, the girls don't have to help their mothers anymore and are able to go to school.

Eau Vive helps education while constructing classrooms and accommodations for the teachers. In order to ensure the sanitary environment of the children, the schools are equipped with latrines and clean water.

School management is entrusted to a Parent-Teacher Association (PTA). This puts the families in the main role of the children's future education and incites them to send their children to school. It brings support to the teachers so as to integrate them into the village.

The PTA is also in charge of collecting school fees, which allow them to buy furnishing, to support the school and to pay the displacement fees for the examinations.

Eau Vive equally supports the training of adults in the literacy programs and functional education (corresponding to the needs and the day-to-day work), notably to the objectives of women.

This training promotes stimulation, reflection, decision-making, permitting women to free themselves.

Some examples of projects supported by Eau Vive

MALI - The school at the center of development for N'Dienso