Education doesn’t have a one-size-fits-all solution. Your support is invested in helping kids complete secondary school using a wide range of tools to make it happen: providing school fees, uniforms, supplies, tutoring and scholarships.

Why focus on education?

Going to school and not dropping out is essential to building a future free from poverty.

By helping kids finish secondary school, they are better positioned to take advantage of opportunities and find employment in the future.

Making an Impact by Measuring

1. Increased school enrollment
2. Better scores, especially in math and reading
3. More young people completing secondary school
4. Exposed to both formal (academic) and informal (civic) education.

Our education programmes support the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030. No. 4 is: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. Learn more about SDG No. 4 here.

How (specifically) does your support help kids?

Kids enrolled in YUVA’s programme can access the just-right mix of resources based on location, age and life circumstances.

Here are some of the ways your support is used for education:

1. Providing material support for supplies, uniforms, shoes or books;
2. Awarding scholarships to attend primary school, college or other higher education institutions;
3. Working directly with parents to ensure their kids are enrolled in school;
4. Creating lunch programmes at schools, which act as an incentive for families to keep sending their kids to school;
5. Tutoring kids — either one-on-one or in groups;
6. Partnering with existing educational facilities in the community;
7. Supporting our own childhood development centres;
8. Educating parents on how to improve interactions with their kids at home; and
9. Creating resources in our community centres like computer labs and libraries available to local schools.

Starting early matters! Kids who participated in early childhood development (like preschool) achieve higher education and make more money as adults.

What gets measured?

(In other words, how do you know it’s working?)

“What gets measured gets done,” someone once said. (And we agree!) We work with Statistics Mauritius/India and independent auditors to measure specific results as part of our programme.

When it comes to education, we look at these results:

1. Increased secondary school completion: We measure success by identifying the percentage of sponsored students who have reached that milestone by age 24.
2. Increased school enrollment: We measure the percentage of sponsored kids enrolled in any formal education level.
3. Increased achievement of identified learning outcomes: We measure the percentage of sponsored kids who achieve minimum proficiency standards for their age or grade level.

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