In many ethnic areas, teachers struggle with limited resources and difficult access to teaching and learning materials. But these teachers and schools are essential to provide an education to kids in some of Myanmar’s most remote areas and vulnerable communities that have been or are still affected by conflict. The EU-funded “CASE+” (Conflict Areas Support for Education+) project is assisting Indigenous providers of education through the “Rural Indigenous Sustainable Education (RISE)” network, which supported in 2017 around 18,600 teachers and almost 280,000 students at 3,250 schools. However, as much as 580,000 children are estimated to be out of school in the RISE areas.
The EU is assisting many of these schools and teachers with teacher training programmes, as well as teaching and learning materials, and is also helping Indigenous providers of education to further expand education services to children that are not in school, while building their knowledge of national education reform initiatives so that they can benefit to Myanmar’s indigenous children.
This week, education experts and Indigenous providers of education are brainstorming to tailor our future assistance to the needs of Indigenous children and their teachers. For more kids back in school and better quality education for all.
Source- ADRA-Myanmar