AYA - Education

Education remains one of the most valuable tools
for overcoming poverty, yet it remains out of
reach for the world's poorest children. 77 million
children do not attend primary school, 97% of
them live in developing countries. Education not
only helps children escape the grasp of extreme
poverty, but assists in the prevention of HIV, aids
in the delay of marriage and pregnancy, and
helps to maintain more peaceful societies.

Therefore, AYA strongly supports programs that
are helping AIDS orphans and impoverished
children receive an education. We help
non-government schools in Kenya and Uganda
with funds for textbooks, desks, educational
materials, and classroom construction. These
non-formal schools are essential to providing
education to the poorest and most vulnerable
children who cannot access the government
school system because of their challenges of
living in extreme poverty and the inability to afford
requirements like uniforms and school supplies.
AYA has also estabilished a teacher training
college to provide a free, two-year training
program to teachers of non-formal schools.