ARK Secondary School Education Program

  • P Project/Program

? Activity Status: Unknown

Key Information

ARK operates several self-sustaining boarding and day secondary schools in East Africa that target orphans and vulnerable children. All of our schools focus on comprehensive education and support services all in one place. ARK schools educate students and their families by using appropriate tools that provide useful and practical skills in conjunction with the required formal secondary school curriculum. Our schools operate all year around, to allow children who do not have a place to call home to have a place stay, priority is put on orphans, especially girls.


Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Kenya, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

Not applicable or unknown

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation

Unknown

Funder(s)

Not applicable or unknown

COVID-19 Response

Unknown

Geographic Scope

Global / regional

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Attainment

  • Secondary completion

Other skills

  • Rights/empowerment education

Quality

  • School quality

Skills

  • Civics education
  • Literacy
  • Numeracy
  • STEM

Cross-cutting areas

  • Empowerment
  • Gender equality

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Girls in school, Youth

Age

14 - 17

School Enrolment Status

All in school

School Level

  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary

Other populations reached

  • Boys in school
  • Youth

Participants include

  • Orphans and vulnerable children

Program Approaches Back to Top

Food/nutrition

  • School feeding

Increased availability of learning materials

  • Textbooks (unspecified)

Learning while working

  • Work-study

Life skills education

  • Gender, rights and power

Reducing economic barriers

  • Scholarships/stipends for school fees

School-related gender-based violence

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

Tutoring/strengthening academic skills

  • Literacy - in the classroom
  • Numeracy - in the classroom
  • STEM - in the classroom

Women's empowerment programs

  • Empowerment training

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Increased grade attainment
  • Increased secondary school completion
  • Increased test scores
  • Increased years of schooling

Cross-cutting goals

  • Increased employment/job-related skills
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms