Supporting Remote Learning

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Key Information

Women’s Global Education Project has adapted our programs to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic in the communities where we work. Our teams in Kenya, Senegal, and the U.S. have worked remotely from mid-March to November 2020, and worked hard to provide resources in order to keep our communities safe and healthy, and to ensure that every girl has the opportunity to continue her education amid school closures.

This included:

  • Remote learning supply distribution to adolescent girls, including battery-powered radios and solar lanterns
  • Locally-produced food to combat food insecuity and market closures
  • Distributing soap, face masks, and community handwashing stations in heavily trafficked areas
  • Radio programs to educate rural community members on the COVID-19 virus

Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Kenya, Senegal

Activity URL

https://womensglobal.org/how-wgep-is-responding-to-covid-19-in-rural-kenya-and-senegal/

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

2020 - 2021

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation

Unknown

Funder(s)

Not applicable or unknown

COVID-19 Response

New for COVID-19

Geographic Scope

Global / regional

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Attainment

  • Primary enrollment
  • Secondary Enrollment

Other

  • Remote Learning

Quality

  • School facilities

Skills

  • Literacy
  • Numeracy

Cross-cutting areas

  • COVID-19 Response
  • Emergencies and protracted crises
  • Food/water security
  • Gender equality

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Girls out of school, Youth

Age

9 - 23

School Enrolment Status

All in school

School Level

  • Lower primary
  • Upper primary
  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary
  • Tertiary

Other populations reached

Not applicable or unknown

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top

Access to school

  • Alternative learning centers/mobile schools/home schools

Curriculum/learning

  • Increased availability of learning materials

Educational Technology

  • Digital devices for the purposes of studying, learning
  • Digital learning materials/programs

Food/nutrition

  • Food for peace/relief
  • School feeding

Increased availability of learning materials

  • Increased availability of Writing materials

Reducing economic barriers

  • Addressing cost of school supplies
  • Conditional cash transfers (including non-cash goods) to individuals/households

School-related gender-based violence

  • Support in and around schools (e.g. peer counseling, adult-to-student counseling)

Teaching

  • Teaching materials (e.g. lesson plans, curricula)

Tutoring/strengthening academic skills

  • Literacy - outside the classroom
  • Numeracy - outside the classroom

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Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Increased school enrolment (general)
  • Reduced absenteeism

Cross-cutting goals

  • Improved health - other
  • Improved nutrition
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms

Additional Information Back to Top

Primary Contact

Amy Maglio
Women's Global Education Project (WGEP)
Executive Director
info@womensglobal.org
+17084157410