A chance to learn,
a chance in life. Arlede is like any girl, she has dreams and ambiYons – she wants to finish primary school.
Arleee lives in the DemocraZc Republic of Congo (DRC), where this dream really does count as ambiZous. In a country which has suffered years of Civil War and conflict, and which conZnues to rank as one of the world’s poorest naZons, children are being deprived of their chance to learn.
Their schools have been ruined and the government is struggling to re-‐build an educaZon system. Half of the girls in the DRC will not even finish primary school, growing up illiterate, vulnerable and poor.
Arleee lives in Kakuba, a very remote village high up on the Plateau in the east of the DRC. It is several hours walk to the nearest road and people live in extreme poverty.
When Children in Crisis first visited Kakuba, we found a school without a roof, walls collapsing, no desks or textbooks and untrained teachers struggling to help their pupils.
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£17 can give a classroom of children a blackboard
£50 can buy three new desks for a school
£131 can train a teacher
It was hard to reconcile this desperate scene with the hope that Arleee and her widowed mother had pinned on this school.
The Children in Crisis team worked with the Kakuba community to get a new school built for their children. We brought materials and years of experience of construcZng schools in remote and difficult terrain. The men and women of the village worked just as hard, carrying building materials by hand and head for several hours from the road to their village.
When Kakuba’s bright, durable, well-‐equipped school was built the community could truly say that it was theirs. And when teachers, also trained and supported by Children in Crisis, took charge of the classrooms, enthusiasZc, energeZc lessons were the result.
All the young
children I’ve met – I’ve met themeverywhere bare footed,
tending goats – the first thing they ask for … is a pen or pencil. One of the best things you could ever give them is a book or a map, and one of the finest things you could
give to the children of the future is an educaSon. That’s why I support Children in Crisis – it’s absolutely fabulous.
Joanna Lumley, Children in Crisis Ambassador.
Children in Crisis, founded in 1993, is helping children suffering the legacy of war in Afghanistan, Burundi, Liberia and Sierra Leone as well as the DemocraZc Republic of Congo. Over the years we have helped nearly 1.4 million children and their families. But sadly, there are many more bright, and ambiZous young people like Arleee who need our help.
EducaYon saves lives and protects children. Please help Children in Crisis today.
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