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Educating Africa Foundation
Supports Financially Self-Sufficient Education for
Africa
15 March 2008
Over the past 20 months, we
at Educating Africa, together with social entrepreneur
Martin Burt, have been exploring ways in which we can
promote and implement financially self-sufficient
education for vulnerable youth, based on Martin’s
experiences in Latin America.
We are convinced that it is possible for the poorest of
the poor to pay for their own quality education, and go
on to obtain dignified full employment, by participating
in a self-sufficient school model experience. We have
seen how practical, learning-by doing, and
entrepreneurial approaches to learning, coupled with
competency and market-based curricula can inspire
teachers, students and whole communities to find their
own way out of the cycle of poverty. We want to empower
ordinary people to do extraordinary things within the
context of financially sustainable education.
Our aim is to raise awareness about sustainable
education, and to achieve that we are in the process of
building a better understanding of the best models in
this area by assessing who is doing what, why it works,
and how it can be replicated. We also assist pioneering
individuals and organizations to document, refine and
where applicable expand their approaches, and to create
new and hybrid replications of self-sufficient education
that will be able to be used worldwide.
Through supporting the concept of “education that pays
for itself”, Educating Africa’s activities not only
garner resources and motivate leaders in social,
business, and government sectors – we also encourage a
spirit of openness and sharing, and see ourselves as an
organization of connectivity and reference for those
initiatives and countries that believe in the African
spirit of self-reliance.
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Education That Pays For Itself 2008 Conference
Coverage
Watch the Education
That Pays For Itself 2008 Conference Video and
feel some of the excitement! Click on the video
shown on the left.
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Pan-African Awards 2008 Results
Many thanks to everyone who entered the EDUCATING AFRICA
Pan African Awards for Entrepreneurship in Education
2008. As expected the level of entries was extremely
high - making the judging a difficult task.
The sheer range of innovation and achievements described
by entrants is a true testimony to magnificent work of
so many teachers across Africa.
While so many entries truly deserve recognition, sadly,
as with all competitions, there can only be a few
winners.
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Self-sufficient Schools Conferencee
The First International Conference on Financially
Self-Sufficient Schools took place in Paraguay 4 - 6
December 2007 bringing together over 140 participants
from 21 countries around the world. Document and video
downloads now available.
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Education that Pays for Itself, 2007
To replicate on a massive scale our financially
sustainable and proven model of " Education That Pays
For Itself" in an additional 50 developing countries
and/or schools by 2017.
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The Transcendental Crusader
The Economist - 30 August 2007
Can Taddy Blecher's combination of cheap business
education and meditation transform South Africa?
IN HIS early years there was little to suggest that
Taddy Blecher would end up in Johannesburg's inner city,
surrounded by youngsters from poor backgrounds. An
actuary turned management consultant, Mr Blecher first
stepped into a township by mistake. “I was terrified and
thought I was going to die,” he remembers. In 1995 he
was on the point of emigrating to America, but at the
last minute he decided to stay and make a difference.
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