Many children around the world remain disadvantaged in their school experiences either through inadequate teaching materials, lack of sanitation facilities, lack of food, discrimination, harassment and even violence. These conditions are not conducive to learning or development, and no chil should have to experience them.
For young girls, education is both an intrinsic right and a critical lever to reaching other development objectives. Providing girls with an education helps break the cycle of poverty; educated women are less likely to marry early and against their will, less likely to die in childbirth, more likely to have healthy babies, and are more likely to send their children to school.
When all children have access to a quality education rooted in human rights and genderequality, it creates a ripple effect of opportunity that influences generations to come. Our education program is geared towards addressing the high rate of dropouts for school going children in our target communities.
RACIDA’s first strategic goal is to provide humanitarian assistance to vulnerable pastoral and agro- pastoral communities in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia.