Child & Development
This project's parent organization is Terres en Mêlées
It operates in France
It uses Rugby Union
Entered the Sport for Quality Education and Employment Award
More about Child & Development
By 2014, five million Malagasy school-age children have never been to school. And those who are lucky enough to be provided with some education are taught by unqualified, often non-officially appointed staff (known as FRAM) without any initial training. The lack of qualifications of these 50.000 “non-official” teachers is a major challenge to provide Malagasy children, and especially girls, with quality education. With neither education nor vocational training in their majority, the ever-growing population often has no choice but to plunder natural resources or leave their communities to join in the waves of the rural exodus which often leads them to survive in shantytowns with quite precarious living conditions. And this results in the emergence of deviant behaviors (begging, theft, prostitution, etc.). The rate of early pregnancy among girls is very high and deprives these girls from any hopeful future.
As stated above, this project uses rugby education to significantly improve the physical, social and environmental living conditions of thousands of young girls, while developing the skills of the non-government appointed teachers who work with them on a daily basis.