[IAEP] Britain to help 175,000 girls in world’s poorest countries get an education

[Dave Crossland]

On 10 July 2016 at 14:54, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> https://www.gov.uk/government/news/britain-to-help-175000-girls-in-worlds-poorest-countries-get-an-education
>
> The Department for International Development (DFID) will provide £100
> million through the Girls’ Education Challenge to help girls who have
> dropped out or never attended school due to family crises, poverty, child
> marriage or early pregnancy. The funding will also be used to continue the
> Girls’ Education Challenge’s support for 1 million disadvantaged girls
> across the developing world.
>
> Statement of action:
>
> https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/girls-education-forum-statement-of-action
>

Thanks for sharing Sean!

The most relevant part of this I could find was in
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/536300/Commitments_in_support_of_the_GEF_Statement_of_Action.pdf
:

Vodafone reiterates its commitment to use mobile technology to bring
education to refugee girls, reaching a potential 3 million young people in
refugee camps across Vodafone countries of operation by 2020 (HeforShe
commitment). Vodafone will do this in two ways: (i) Building schools in
refugee camps: Vodafone has established 20 Instant Network schools
providing internet connectivity, power, tablets, mobile content and teacher
training in Kenya, DRC and South Sudan. (ii) Vodafone is launching the
Vodafone Instant Schools for Africa initiative this Autumn, providing
millions of young people in DRC, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique and
Tanzania with free access to digital education resources developed by
Learning Equality.


I wonder how to contact them to learn what their requirements would be to
use Sugar in these schools... I found that the Director of the Vodafone
Foundation is Andrew Dunnett who appears to own the
https://twitter.com/vodafonefdn account so tweeted to him -
https://twitter.com/davelab6/status/752320606646001664 - and I'll follow up
if I hear back :)

Ps. I noticed that
http://www.vodafone.com/content/index/about/foundation.html has their
Mission Statement which I thought was insightful for our big discussion:

Through a unique network of 27 local Foundations and social investment
programmes, Vodafone invests in the communities in which it operates. The
Vodafone Foundations are committed to connecting communities around the
world to improve lives. The underlying belief of the Foundations is that
connectivity drives change.  The Vodafone Foundations use the companies
charitable giving, their fundraising capability and privileged access to
Vodafone networks, technology, customers and employees to connect people
with the necessary tools to make a difference in the world.
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