Save the Children Finland International Programmes 2008 – 2010

2. Strategic Objectives
2.1. Fulfil children’s right to education
Save the Children strives to make education accessible,
of high quality and safe for all children. Our goal for
the programme period of 2008-2010 was to promote
the right to quality inclusive education in quality learning
environments for all children. Our education programme
covered six countries during this programme
period: Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Nepal and
Somalia/Somaliland.
More children have access to quality basic
education
As result of our programme, fewer children are denied
access to education and learning opportunities due to
discrimination caused by disability, gender, ethnic origin,
child labour or due to the fact that they live in war and
conflict affected countries. Nearly 64,000 children benefited
from SCF’s basic education programme. School
enrolment and retention rates have increased considerably
in our intervention areas. For example, at the
end of 2010, 92 percent of all school aged children
in SFC intervention areas in Ethiopia are in school in
comparison to 83.7 percent in 2008.
As part of its education programmes in Ethiopia and
Côte d’Ivoire, SCF has also supported alternative education
centres to enable education for children and
youth who cannot attend regular schools. In Ethiopia
and Nepal, we have also made efforts to increase access
to early childhood education to improve learning
outcomes and to address the problem of high dropout
and repetition rates during the first years of basic education.
Photo: Tessa Rintala
6 Save the Children Finland – International programmes 2008 – 2010