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Welthungerhilfe, IBAN DE15 3705 0198 0000 0011 15, BIC COLSDE33Deutsche Welthungerhilfe e. V., Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 1, 53173 Bonn, Germany, Tel. +49 (0)228 2288-0, Fax +49 (0)228 2288-333, www.welthungerhilfe.de

2016 REPORT

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Your theme: Education

Bolivia/El AltoScholarships give disadvan-taged girls and women the opportunity to receive vocational training.

Congo/ButemboAfter they have become victims of sexual violence, women and girls are frequently cast out of their families. FEPSI is an association that helps them start out on a path to professional self-employment.

Publication details

Responsibility for content: Alexandra Shahabeddin, Tel. +49 (0)228 2288-419, alexandra.shahabeddin@welthungerhilfe.de

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Photos: Desmarowitz (p. 2), Düchting (p. 6, 7), Grossmann (p. 2), Krupar (p. 3), Welthungerhilfe (p. 3, 4, 5), Wolff (p. 1)

Title photo: Welthungerhilfe provided new classrooms after the earthquake in Nepal in 2015.

Dear friends of Welthungerhilfe,

“Leave no one behind.” This is a guiding principle that the United Nations has committed itself to in an agreement on the world’s future development: Agenda 2030. It is a promise that we also hope to fulfil for the people who are involved in our pro-jects. An important means to achieving this is edu-cation. Young people need prospects that are cur-rently often denied to them in rural areas. They see no future for themselves at home, and so they move to the big cities. There, they often find their dreams of a better life in their own country are crushed. Attempting a risky journey to Europe as a last resort, may seem to be the only way to escape.

This is why our training and educational opportu-nities focus particularly on adolescents. Their gen-eration represents the future for every country. On page four you can read about how training is pro-viding new opportunities to young women and men who have left their homes and are now fighting to survive in the Indian metropolis of Kolkata. Urban agriculture offers them a chance to work and build a stable livelihood.

I am very pleased to present our new education report to you, which also showcases mobile schools for educating the children of nomadic families in Mali. It is your support that is making such suc-cessful projects possible!

Warmest regards,

Mathias Mogge Executive Director Programmes

Knowledge provides the basis for a life free from hunger. We therefore support people all over the world, giving them access to educational and training opportunities.

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Iraq/DohukWelthungerhilfe is building schools in northern Iraq for children whose families had to flee from the Syrian civil war. This ensures that these young people do not face losing all future prospects.

India/Mayurbhanj districtNow that teaching materials and workbooks are written in the mother tongue of Adivasi children, boys and girls from this indigenous minority attend school much more successfully.

Myanmar/Htan TabinYoung people at a ‘resources centre’ learn to take responsibility for initiating development processes in their communities.

Ethiopia/Nefas MewchaWe support orphans and children from particularly poor families to attend school. They also grapple with sensitive topics such as HIV/AIDS through role playing and theatre.

Kenya/Kitui and MakueniThe level of illiteracy in Kenya is very high. Our project teaches women in particular how to read and write. This enables them to provide for their families more effectively.

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Your theme: Education

India: Tomatoes are sprouting on roofs

Any small area can be turned into a vegetable garden, such as the roof of the office occupied by our partner organisation DRCSC shown here.

You are what you eat: A healthy diet not only fills you up, it also strengthens your immune system and prevents disease. In the slums of Kolkata, Welthungerhilfe and its partner organisation Development Research Communication and Services Centre (DRCSC) explain the essentials for growing vegetables on even the smallest plots to unemployed young people. The produce they grow provides them not only with a level of subsistence, but also with a means to earn a living as businesspeople, supplying healthy food rich in vitamins to schools and hospitals.

The Indian government adopted a law in 2013 that grants all residents the right to safe food. However, this goal does not appear to have been achieved in many parts of the country. Conventionally-produced fruit, vegetables and meat can con-tain numerous dangerous toxins. Independent investigations have found high concentrations of pesticides, antibiotics and hormones. The development of sustainable approaches must be an urgent priority in a country in which 42 percent of all children under five years of age are suffering the effects of malnutrition and are therefore particularly vulnerable.

At the moment, untainted food is rarely available in the cit-ies. One solution is urban agriculture, but many people lack farming knowledge and skills. At the same time, the rate of

Teaching focuses on both plant science and business planning.

youth unemployment is very high. Welthungerhilfe has there-fore started a project to address both of these issues. In the metropolis of Kolkata in the east of India, 200 young people are now cultivating organic vegetables. These young people, like thousands before them, moved to the city from their rural homes in search of work. They end up living in slums – without any prospect of gaining adequately-paid employ-ment. Now, however, they are learning all about how to grow

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and cultivate vegetables in their own gardens, in yards or on rooftops. Welthungerhilfe and its partner organisation DRCSC help the young gardeners and make sure that mar-

keting is also a part of the curriculum.

The finer details of plant scienceThe students are enthusiastic and receive

comprehensive training. What can I culti-vate in a small area? What are the various needs of different plants? And how, for example, do I use compost from kitchen waste as valuable fertiliser? The curric-ulum covers all these topics and others every Saturday. And the lessons learned are, of course, put into practice when-

ever possible: The young gardeners have already planted two large beds during their

training. They selected the plants, decided on the layout, prepared the soil and finally

planted the seedlings. “In the courses we learn that the joint cultivation of different vegetable

varieties such as spinach, tomatoes and aubergines, carrots and beans, as well as spice plants is healthier for

the soil and therefore increases yields,” says Mahua, one of the trainees.

materials are in both English and Bengali, so participation is also open to those who have not had any higher educa-tion. The young men and women visit specialist suppliers to procure equipment, soil, seedlings and pots. They also, with the help of the training course leaders, make contact with potential purchasers of their products. These customers may include hospitals, childcare centres and hotels. In the future, 2,000 families should also be able to obtain cheap and vita-min-rich food from the city gardens planted by the young vegetable farmers in and around Kolkata. This will help spread the idea of resource-preserving and sustainable food production to other districts.

The young people put their learning into practice with great enthusiasm. “When I started working as a gardener, I quickly understood that planning is the most important task of all. I know exactly how many plants I need to plant and where,” says apprentice gardener Milan. A second cohort of students also want to acquire this knowledge: other young migrants from the slums of Kolkata have heard about the training course through Facebook, information brochures and adver-tisements in schools. They are due to start soon with the same aim of striking out in a new direction, building their autonomy and laying the foundations for a healthy life.

Which soil is most suitable? Hands-on learning during a trip to a specialist retailer.

Preparing well for self-employmentThe trainees have a clear goal in mind when growing whole-some vegetables: They want to have both a healthy diet for themselves and an opportunity to earn money and develop a livelihood that can lift them out of the poverty of the slums. This means that developing a small enterprise in a profes-sional manner, including business plans and financing, is an important component of the training course. All teaching

The simplest methods of cultivation: A flower pot made from a plastic bottle.

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Your theme: Education

For many months each year, thousands of nomadic families move into the north of Mali in West Africa. They come in search of grazing lands and water for their animals or to take advantage of bountiful fish stocks. In order to ensure their children’s educa-tion, an innovative Welthungerhilfe pro-ject makes it possible for the nomads to transport a mobile school on the backs of camels or on boats on the Niger.

“My parents have cattle, goats, sheep, donkeys and camels. The animals are everything we have. I would like to become a vet to prevent them falling sick. But first I have to learn to read, write and do arithmetic. Now I can finally do that!” says Djando Mahamane Dicko. The eight-year-old has just written all the num-bers up to 30 on the board, without any mistakes, in one of the Welthungerhilfe- financed mobile schools. Most nomads and fishing communities in the north of Mali have

Mali: The school comes to the children

never had access to any school-based education before. They have been excluded from many development

opportunities from the outset. They feel that the state has held them back, intensifying their conflict with settled farmers over ever- decreasing resources. Although this conflict has led to regular disputes, education will hopefully help prevent or peacefully resolve

problems in the future.

Everything is manufactured locally The outdoor temperature exceeds

45 degrees, but it is surpris-ingly cool inside the school

made of simple poles and raffia mats. Crafts-men from the region

produced the foldable tables and benches where Djando studies with almost 60 other boys and girls. This means that the school not only benefits those who are learning inside it, but also those who built it.

All aboard – the disassembled parts of a classroom are pulled along on the boat, following after the children.

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Girls can also join inDjando’s grandmother Kanga Dicko is proud of her hard-work-ing granddaughter: “The school opened our eyes. There were a lot of things we didn’t know about before. For example, how to store and boil drinking water, so our children do not become ill. We are learning so much from our grandchildren,” says the 55-year-old, who never had the chance to attend school herself. The grandmother is involved in the parents’ committee and ensures that as many parents as possible let their daughters study.

According to a report by the United Nations, 58 million children of primary school age in 116 countries still do not attend school. Girls in particular often have to stay at home, expected to work in the home and in the fields. Addition-ally, many parents believe that girls do not need an educa-tion anyway. Grandma Kanga Dicko sees things very dif-ferently. She is firmly convinced that only education can ensure that children in the poverty-stricken north of Mali will have a better life one day than her parents and grand-parents had. She has already been able to convince many mothers and fathers of this through face-to-face conversa-tions with them.

Despite the heat outside, inside the room made of raffia mats there is a comfortable environment for learning.

In Mali girls attend school for an average of

For boys, this figure is

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The grandmother sees another advantage in having a school. “Now we no longer have to drive far away to Konna or Mopti to have our letters read and written,” says Kanga Dicko, who is illiterate.

In total, 110 mobile schools were inaugurated by Welthun-gerhilfe in cooperation with a local aid organisation between 2006 and 2016. The Malian ministry for education has employed one teacher for each new school, and this teacher accompanies the community and the school when they move. Although the security situation in the north of the country has worsened significantly since a military coup in March 2012, around 10,534 girls and boys have been able to attend primary school. The entire village community monitors the children’s active participation at school, and only illness- related absences are considered acceptable. As a consequence, the average rate of school attendance is 98 percent.

A total of over 80,000 people have benefited from the pro-ject in the last ten years. This includes parents who have received training on how they can provide better protection for their children’s hygiene and health. Welthungerhilfe does not want to permanently take on the duties of the state after the successful development of this project, nor does the organisation wish to leave pupils, teachers and parents dependent on external support. So the project in this part of the Mopti region will be transferred to the Malian state. Welthungerhilfe and its local partners aim to transfer this model of successful project development to other regions with mobile societies.

In a few weeks Djando’s school will once again be disman-tled. The mats, poles, benches, chairs and blackboard will all move, along with the pupils and teachers. Until the day she actually gets into higher education, Djando will follow the lessons being taught at various locations that are not marked on any map. To realise her dream.

We don’t repair engines. We make hearts beat again.

www.youthencouragementuganda.org/skills

“Skill up!” – opportunities for young people

“Skill up!” is an international skills development and youth employment programme for young people in Africa and Asia. It provides young men and women in selected countries with the chance to find a job, be productive and generate a decent income. An eye-catching poster campaign in Uganda invites new participants and presents handcrafts as jobs worth striving for.

A carpenter in Uganda wouldn’t leave his workplace still wearing his overall. He does not want to be recognized as a craftsman – a profession that is considered inferior. “Skill up!”, a programme that Welthungerhilfe launched together with local partners in Uganda, Kenya, Sierra Leone and Tajikistan in 2015, wants to combat these prejudices and invites young people to take part. It offers them a way out of the wide-spread youth unemployment and creates perspectives.

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Welthungerhilfe, IBAN DE15 3705 0198 0000 0011 15, BIC COLSDE33Deutsche Welthungerhilfe e. V., Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 1, 53173 Bonn, Germany, Tel. +49 (0)228 2288-0, Fax +49 (0)228 2288-333, www.welthungerhilfe.de

“Skill Up!” addresses young people aged 15-35, especially supporting youth from vulnerable backgrounds like orphans, school drop outs, girls at risk or teenage mothers. The programme offers market-oriented vocational training courses – for example Electrical Installation, Motor Vehicle Mechanic, Tailoring and Dressmaking, Information and Com-munication Technology, Food Processing or Waste Manage-ment profession and creates links with employers and credit facilities. Entrepreneurial and Life Skills classes are also part of the curriculum. They support the trainees in their profes-sional development on an employed or self-employed basis as well as promoting their social and personal skills to actively shape their own lives.

A good basis for a better future!

To promote the “Skill up!” programme the Welthungerhilfe-team in Uganda, together with the training workshop operators, launched a marketing campaign that wants to improve the image of craft professions.