CRANE Annual Report 2016-2017 Final

Children in Education
The Girls’ Education Challenge project aimed to
help girls succeed in school who have or are most
at risk of dropping out of education through
spending a short period of time in a completely
free Creative Learning Centre (CLC) where they
receive high-quality child-centred teaching.
The project sought to do this through a
combination of interventions including the
following:
Enrolling girls in CLCs
A bus with IT facilities
Library Truck
Setting up community savings groups
Inter-school league and annual sports event
CLC teacher and mentor training
Training parents in life skills and positive
parenting
Building toilets and making schools disability
friendly
Creative Learning Centres were found to rapidly
and significantly improve girls’ skills in literacy and
numeracy and lead most girls who attend back into
mainstream schooling and taking end of year
or national exams. All girls improved their literacy
scores during their time at the CLC. 75% of girls
who attended a CLC returned to mainstream
education and of those, 90% stayed in education
for at least 1 year. Girls in the treatment
communities had an average 25% increase in
numeracy scores and 56% increase in literacy
scores
At the project closure, 3,629 girls had enrolled in
the 22 CLCs with 2,242 of the girls reintegrated into
another form of learning. 15,499 other children
were impacted through family mentoring, teacher
training, a mobile library, a competitive league and
a mobile IT suite.
Girls with special educational needs — The project
was particularly effective in supporting girls with
special educational needs into specialist education.
9 girls have transitioned into mainstream
education. 75% of the girls achieved the learning
targets set. The project also successfully helped
shift attitudes of the girls’ parents through mentors
and teacher-parent relationships. Parents with girls
with special educational needs reported feeling
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