ECONOMIC FEASIBILITY
Our goal of making peace, human rights and leadership education avaliable to everybody is an ambitious one, as the income of applicants is insufficient to cover the need to pay teachers in all our different centers.
Our association already maintains some 35 orphans and forsaken children, in the homes of host families, and we have to continue to assist them by paying their school fees since 2004: clothing them, taking care of them and feeding them.
We give to each host family a modest sum of money with which each family creates an income-producing activity to support feeding the children that they foster.
Twenty-two years ago, the Congolese state withdrew from the payment of teachers, leaving them to be paid entirely by parents and, in spite of our government's promise of “ transforming primary education for nothing ”, the parents of pupils are still bearing the burden of paying the teachers. Each pupil pays US$45 to US$80 every three months.
Some members of our association have received small grants which helped them to complete university studies. Three of them have finished their studies in law, agronomy and commerce. 15 other students have suspended their studies because of the financial problems encountered since 2010, following the death of our patron. If we can attract the support of another philanthropist, or more, those 15 members of our association will gladly complete their studies at university and children will benefit from their increased capacity to help.
Our goal of making peace, human rights and leadership education avaliable to everybody is an ambitious one, as the income of applicants is insufficient to cover the need to pay teachers in all our different centers.
Our association already maintains some 35 orphans and forsaken children, in the homes of host families, and we have to continue to assist them by paying their school fees since 2004: clothing them, taking care of them and feeding them.
We give to each host family a modest sum of money with which each family creates an income-producing activity to support feeding the children that they foster.
Twenty-two years ago, the Congolese state withdrew from the payment of teachers, leaving them to be paid entirely by parents and, in spite of our government's promise of “ transforming primary education for nothing ”, the parents of pupils are still bearing the burden of paying the teachers. Each pupil pays US$45 to US$80 every three months.
Some members of our association have received small grants which helped them to complete university studies. Three of them have finished their studies in law, agronomy and commerce. 15 other students have suspended their studies because of the financial problems encountered since 2010, following the death of our patron. If we can attract the support of another philanthropist, or more, those 15 members of our association will gladly complete their studies at university and children will benefit from their increased capacity to help.