EDUCATION 4 CHANGE FOREIGN CHARITY
ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDED DEC, 2015
SUMMATED፡-TO THE FEDERAL CHARITIES AND SOCIETY AGENCY
JAN, 2015
ADDID ABABA
1. Introduction
1.1 Executive summary
Education 4 Change is non-political, non-religious ,and non-governmental Charitable organization , originated from Canada and registered here in Ethiopia as a foreign charity based on Ethiopian charities and society proclamation number ,621/2001 and provision of ministries of council number 168/2001.The objective of the charity isto increase education opportunities for the people living in the Kelafo district, in the Somali National regional state as well as improve the quality of the education they receive. Education 4 Change tries to provide the necessary school materials and support for the most disadvantaged community with the collaboration of government , non-government organization and individuals (especially Canadian volunteers,who are very eager to help in any aspect) .
Specific objectives are:-
To foster and promote education in developing regions by developing sustainable educational opportunities and programs for all ages.
To give children the opportunity to receive an education that prepares them with sufficient knowledge and skills in order to be competitive on the global market.
To provide educational opportunities for all children in underserved communities thereby breaking the cycle of poverty through an enhanced quality of education.
To provideadult education (numeracy and literacy) for adult women in particular.
The objectives of this organization will contribute in creating a suitable environment for students, to make them sufficient and productive as well as economically,socially,mentally and physically competent citizens,who can lead a better life and play a vital role to their country.
To achieve their objectives, the organization works in close collaboration with government and non-government organizations. The following are the main activities of our organization:
Provide support materials to schools.
Provide support materials to students such as books, t-shirts,shoes, etc.
Provide a library and hire personnel to overseeit’s day to day activities.
Provide library resources to support the overall goal of promoting literacy.
Provide regular teacher training to help teachers keep abreast with and maintain high standards of curriculum delivery.
Operate a mobile school (ie. donkey cart) to help remove the barrier of accessibility for underservedcommunities. And all of the above activities have been conducted in the following schools.
1. ALA’AMIN community primary school.
2. BARGUUN primary school.
3. MACRUUF primary school.
4. GOBLE primary school.
5. KELAFO primary and intermediate school.
6. BARGUUN Adult school.
In order to meet the plan’sobjectives, multi-faceted and innovative implementation modalities havebeen taken and partnership, networking, sharing and learning have been introduced throughout the plan implementation. The total cost of the plan implementation of the year 2015 was 90,873.09.
2.The general Objective of the organization
The objective of the charity isto increase education opportunities for the people living in the Kelafo district, in the Somali National regional state as well as improve the quality of the education they receive.
Specific objectives of the organization:-
To foster and promote education in developing regions by developing sustainable educational opportunities and programs for all ages.
To give children the opportunity to receive an education that prepares them to gain sufficient knowledge and skills in order to be competitive on the global market.
To provide educational opportunities for all children in underserved communities thereby breaking the cycle of poverty through an enhanced quality of education.
To provide adult education (numeracy and literacy) for adult women in particular.
3. Implementation strategies
Education 4 Change used the following implementation strategies in order to achieve remarkable results:-
Strong planning, implementing, reporting, monitoring and evaluation systems will be designed with stock holders for the successful implementation of the project.
Signing project agreements with concerned government bodies for its smooth implementation.
Jointly working with concerned government bodies, especially the Federal charities and society agency, SomaliBoFED, BoE and Kelafo district other line offices.
The community will be empowered to participate at all levels of the project implementation.
Education 4 Change has been continuing its effortswith their mobile school and we work with each of five schools. We have strong collaboration with the government and the community at large, so as to exploit the local resources because we believe that if everybody contributes his/her knowledge, labor, time and other resources they will feel a sense of belonging. In this case the sustainability of the program will not be in question.
4. Major Activities
The main achievements of the organization for 2015 are described below, implemented in the following manner:-
4.1Educational Material Support
4.1.1 Books supply to Schools:-Education 4 Change has contributed (supplied) school support materials likebooks, which are important for the development of the English language. In this case the books were distributed to100mobile schools found in the Kelafo district. Equipping schools with different materials will continue in the future, so as to bring remarkable results in the area of quality education.
4.1.2Provide Donkey cart service to five MobileSchools: - this donkey cart is very important to bring any materials needed to schools. This service started on 2014 and continued this year and it will continue into the future.
4.1.3Provide different materials to students found in five schools:-Education 4 Change wanted to support students and fulfill all of their basic needs. However, due to shortage of finances, the organization gave only the following materials from Canada.
Table 1:-Shows the materials contribution of Education 4 Change, 2015
Type of Materials / Amount / No schools / RemarksT-thirst / 55 / 5 / for each school
Shoes / 20 / 5 / for each school
Ball / 15 / 5 / for each school
4.2 BuildLibrary inKelafoDistrict
In the project area there is no standardized library and as a result students have found it difficult to get additional information from a resource center. The organization discussed with the local government and community about building a library and on whatland it would be built. They also discussedcommunity participation and having the communities agree to participate in their knowledge, and to bring materials in kind so as to create the sense of belongingness.So preparation activities have been conducted and the full implementation will be taken in 2016.
4.3Teachers Capacity Building Training
Since the time of the project agreement, mid-August 2015, the Mobile school projects were started in five schools in Kelafo district. This has been conducting in the following schools:-
1. ALA’AMIN community primary school.
2. BARGUUN primary school.
3. MACRUUF primary school.
4. GOBLE primary school.
5. KELAFO primary and intermediate school.
It is obvious that for the development of a country, education plays avital role,especially for developing countries due to poor economic status. Apart from this, our country designed a policy and strategy to make primary education accessible to all and to maintain quality by involving all stake holders (government,non-government and the community).In this regard our organization, Education 4 Change, has been working with the above five schools to provide quality education. We hired one qualified teacher,who staffs our mobile school (a qualified teacher with BA) and who gives on-the-job training to teachers onsite.This is to help them with developing effective ways of designing and deliveringthe curriculum in a variety of subject areas in the 5 schools mentioned above. The mobile schoolvisits each school one day per week to carry out the project’s plan and guidelines of E4 Change as it relates to the Mobile school project. The organization has given onsite training in the five respective schools as follows:-
We have been giving on-the-job training on site to 27 male and 5 female teachers, totalling 32 employed teachers of the above five schools.
Continues meeting and consulting with the selected school’s committee made up of community elders/parents. The organization keeps highlighting to the community of elders the value of education for their students and encourages them to take control and ownership of their children’s education, to monitor teachers and students attendance.
Facilitated communities mobilizing their local resources for the benefit of educational improvements within their communities in five schools.
Facilitated the establishment of a community based parents’ school council that can work with teachers as well as the district school board.
The organization provided to 27 male and 5 female totally 32 teachers onsitetrainings to help teachers keep abreast with and maintain high standards of curriculum delivery and teaching techniques.
Empowers parents’ council/elders to explore opportunities for local fundraising (cash or in kind) and general improvement opportunities for individual schools, in this case the sense of belongingness will be high.
Table2:-StatusOf Mobile School Project
Name of schools / Total students from class 1-4 / Total students from class 5-8 / Total students / Total teachers / TotalM / F / M / F / M / F
1 / ALA’AMIN community school / 16 / 10 / -- / -- / 26 / 1 / -- / 1
2 / BARGUUN primary school / 164 / 138 / --- / --- / 302 / 4 / 1 / 5
3 / MACRUUF primary school. / 35 / 40 / -- / -- / 75 / 3 / --- / 3
4 / GOBLE primary school / 201 / 253 / --- / --- / 454 / 4 / 1 / 5
5 / KELAFO primary and intermediate school / 524 / 322 / 427 / 235 / 1508 / 15 / 3 / 18
Grand. Total / 940 / 743 / 427 / 235 / 2365 / 27 / 5 / 32
5. The main challenges the organization faces:-
Lack of funding and human resources to run its main activities properly is the major challenge during the year of 2015.
The remoteness of the project area from the center of the capital city Addis Ababa.
Lack of quick cooperation from stakeholders as much as the organization expects.
6. The remedy taken to solve the problems
Continually preparing and summiting proposals to possible donors and other organizations.
Hire part-time worker to give short period of solution.
Convincing the members of the organization to contribute more than what they did before.
Discussing with the stakeholders that in order to help the poor their cooperation is mandatory and other wise things will be difficult. In this case we have been rich on common consensuses.
1. Introduction
1.1 Executive summary
Education 4 Change is non-political, non-religious ,and non-governmental Charitable organization , originated from Canada and registered here in Ethiopia as a foreign charity based on Ethiopian charities and society proclamation number ,621/2001 and provision ministries of council number 168/2001.The objective of the charity is just contributing its effort to Somali National regional state kelafodistrict in all socio-economic aspects ,especially in the area of education is the major activity that what we are currently Doing (especially in the quality of education) by fulfilling the necessary schools materials support for the most disadvantaged community with the collaboration of government , non-government organization and individuals (specially Canadian voluntary ,who are very eager to help more in any aspects) .
Specific objectives are:-
To foster and promote education in developing regions by developing sustainable educational opportunities and programs for all ages.
To give children the opportunity to receive an education that prepares them to gain sufficient knowledge and skills in order to be competitive on the global market.
To provide educational opportunities for all children in underserved communities there by, breaking the cycle of poverty through an enhanced quality of education.
To provide adult education (numeracy and literacy) for adult women in particularly.
These objectives of the organization just to contribute in creating suitable environment for students to make them sufficient productive as well as economically ,socially ,mentally and physically competent citizens ,who can lead a better life and play a vital role to their country.
To achieve the objective of the organization worked in cloth collaboration with government and non-government organization and the following are the main activities our organization will conduct the following activities:-
Support materials to schools
Support materials to students such as Books,T-thirt ,shoes,Ex-books etc
Provide library and hire personnel to oversee their day to day activities
Provide library resource full to support the overall goal of promoting literacy
Provide regular teachers training to help teachers keep abreast with and maintain high standards of curriculum delivery.
Operate a mobile schools ie donkey car(s) to help remove the barrier of accessibility for unreserved communities. And all of the above activities have been conducting in the following schools.
1. ALA’AMIN community primary school.
2. BARGUUN primary school.
3. MACRUUF primary school.
4. GOBLE primary school.
5. KELAFO primary and intermediate school.
6. BARGUUN Adult school.
In order to meet the plan objectives multi-faceted and innovative implementation modalities will be taken and partnership, networking, sharing and learning are introduced throughout the plan implementation. The total cost of the plan implementation of the year 2016 is 518,100.00.
2. The general Objective of the organization
The objective of the charity is just contributing its effort to Somali National regional statekelafo district in all socio-economic aspects ,especially in the area of education is the major activity that what we are currently Doing(especially in the quality of education).
Specific objectives of the organization:-
To foster and promote education in developing regions by developing sustainable educational opportunities and programs for all ages.
To give children the opportunity to receive an education that prepares them to gain sufficient knowledge and skills in order to be competitive on the global market.
To provide educational opportunities for all children in underserved communities there by, breaking the cycle of poverty through an enhanced quality of education.
To provide adult education (numeracy and literacy) for adult women in particularly.
3. Implementation strategies
The association used the following its own implementations strategies in order to achieve remarkable results:-
Strong planning, implementing, reporting, monitoring and evaluation system will be design with stock holders for the successful implementation of the project.
Signing project agreement with concerned government bodies for its smooth implementation.
Jointly work with concerned government bodies especially the Federal charities and society agency, Somali BoFED, BoE and Kelafo district other line offices.
The community will be empowered to participate at all levels of the project implementation.
On the other hand the organization, Education 4 Change aggressively has been continue its effort in the following five mobile schools and hopefully we work each five schools with strong collaboration of the government and the community at large, so as to exploit the local resources because we believe that if everybody contribute his/her knowledge, labor, time and other resources they fill sense of belongingness in this case the sustainability of the program will not be in question.
Education 4 Change in 2016 fiscal year in collaboration with government, non-government such as individuals, community leaders, community, others will work the following major activities.
Support materials to schools
Support materials to students such as Books, T-thirt ,Shoes,Ex-books etc
Provide library and hire personnel to oversee their day to day activities
Provide library resource full to support the overall goal of promoting literacy
Provide regular teachers training to help teachers keep abreast with and maintain high standards of curriculum delivery. There is also training on the quality of education based on the quality of education packages (six packages).
Operate a mobile schools ie donkey car(s) to help remove the barrier of accessibility for unreserved communities.
Table3:-The detail financial and physical summary of E4C 2016 activities
Budget category / Project target and finance / Budget year 20161stquarter / 2ndquarter / 3rdquarter / 4th quarter
Juan / Feb / Mar / Apr / May / Jun / Jul / Agu / Sep / Oct / Nov / Dec
Direct program cost≥70% / Physical / Finance / Finance / finance / Finance / finance / finance / Finance / Finance / finance / finance / finance / finance / Finance
Schools supply
Provision of 600 text and reference books schools / 5 / 12000 / - / - / 3000 / - / - / 3000 / - / - / 3000 / - / - / 3000
Provision of table 30 for each schools / 150 / 7500 / - / - / - / - / - / - / - / - / 7500 / - / - / -
Provision of chair 50 for each schools / 250 / 15000 / - / - / - / - / - / - / - / - / 15000 / - / - / -
Computer to schools two for each schools / 10 / 60000 / - / - / - / - / 30000 / - / - / - / - / 30000 / - / -
Provide to T-thirt,ball and shoes to students found in five schools / 5 / 12000 / 1000 / 1000 / 1000 / 1000 / 1000 / 1000 / 1000 / 1000 / 1000 / 1000 / 1000 / 1000
Teachers Training on quality education packages / 32 / 4000 / 1000 / - / - / 1000 / - / - / 1000 / - / - / 1000 / - / -
Library construction / 1 / 249000 / - / - / - / - / - / - / 41500 / 41500 / 41500 / 41500 / 41500 / 41500
Teachers salary / 2 / 98400 / 8200 / 8200 / 8200 / 8200 / 8200 / 8200 / 8200 / 8200 / 8200 / 8200 / 8200 / 8200
Sup total / 457,900 / 10,200 / 9,200 / 12,200 / 10,200 / 39,200 / 12,200 / 51,700 / 50,700 / 76,200 / 81,700 / 50,700 / 53,700
Administration cost<%
Salary / 2 / 48,000 / 4000 / 4000 / 4000 / 4000 / 4000 / 4000 / 4000 / 4000 / 4000 / 4000 / 4000 / 4000
Utilities (telephone, print post, Email) / 3000 / 250 / 250 / 250 / 250 / 250 / 250 / 250 / 250 / 250 / 250 / 250 / 250
Annual self assessment / 1 / 5000 / - / - / - / - / - / - / - / - / - / - / 5000
Audit fee / 1 / 3000 / - / - / - / - / - / - / - / - / - / - / - / 3000
Stationary & Others / 1200 / 100 / 100 / 100 / 100 / 100 / 100 / 100 / 100 / 100 / 100 / 100 / 100
Sub total / 60,200 / 4,350 / 4,350 / 4,350 / 4,350 / 4,350 / 4,350 / 4,350 / 4,350 / 4,350 / 4,350 / 9,3500 / 7,3500
Grand total / 518,100 / 14,550 / 13,550 / 16,550 / 14,550 / 43,550 / 16,550 / 56,050 / 55,050 / 80,550 / 86,050 / 60,050 / 61,050
Ratio of ad/operational cost / 11.6%
Date------
Re/no------
To charities and society Agency
Addis Ababa
Subject:-submitting annual report of 2015 financial and performance report, and plan of 2016
As we indicated on the above the organization prepared the performance report of the year ended Dec ,2015 and 2016 fiscal plan of the organization and here with we attached ----page and we would like to thank you for your cooperation as usual.
Best regards