Supporting children for secondary education

Few people in the developed world would be able to cope adequately with modern life if they left school after six or seven years of primary education. People everywhere realise the importance of secondary education. In almost every developed country it is taken for granted that everyone will have at least three or four years of secondary education. Yet in many developing countries the majority of children who complete primary schooling are denied the opportunity to go to secondary school.

AET is working to improve both the opportunities for children and young people in Africa to go to secondary school and the quality of the education they get when they do go. With its partner the Danish Refugee Council (DRC), AET is building over 100 classrooms in secondary schools in Somalia and Somaliland. It is providing text books and laboratory materials to secondary schools and it is working with the BBC World Service to develop new audio materials to improve the quality of the teaching and materials in mathematics, science and English in secondary schools. It is also working in partnership with universities and colleges to support the training of secondary school teachers and teacher trainers.

Under the Colonel Johnson Memorial Fund which is managed by AET, the Trust is able to support young Aids/ HIV orphans in secondary schools in Swaziland. Over 750 young orphans in Swaziland have been able to attend secondary school through this funding.

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