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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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Education That Pays For Itself 2008 Conference Report Back
Education That Pays For Itself 2008 took place in mid November 2008 bringing together some of the world’s leading practitioners in financially sustainable education, along with educators, policymakers, business people, philanthropists, social entrepreneurs and NGOs from around the world, in a unique forum for learning, networking, inspiration and action.

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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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