Education4All

Providing free access to quality education in disadvantaged communities, reaching out-of-school children and providing second chance learning opportunities for adults

Beaming free-to-air educational content via satellite from top schools in a region to children in disadvantage (rural, refugees, nomadic, slums, etc.) communities in the same region

The solution could help reach the over 250 million out-of-school children around the world

The project seeks to solve the following problems:

Providing access to education for the over 250 million out-of-school children around the world

Providing second chance learning experience for adults that came out of school with poor learning outcomes

Provide teacher training and teacher professional development training

Provide public enlightenment platform to teach essential skills (climate change awareness & resilience, etc), correct harmful social norms (child marriage, etc), promote SDGs, etc

An initiative to beam educational content covering the child’s first 12 years of education i.e. from primary through to senior secondary school via satellite to an intended area.

To ensure that the children are exposed to the very best education available, top schools in the region would be identified, and classroom activities from these will be beamed via satellite to rural school across the region as free-to-air content.
The rural schools on the receiving end will use satellite dishes, free-to-air satellite TV decoder and large screen TV sets to receive and show the content to their pupils.

The project will be set-up to run on solar power, given the absence or often erratic state of electric supply in the rural areas and in conflict affected regions.

The community will be required to:
o Provide classrooms that can be anything from tents or thatch roof sheds that keep out the sun and rain, to proper classroom blocks.
o Provide adults to maintain order in each classroom; these do not
necessarily have to be literate
o Provide simple lavatories.
o Ensure security of pupils.
o Discourage gender discrimination against girls and ensure that all
children start school at the appropriate age.
o Demonstrate active interest in the learning outcome of the
school

Children and adults in disadvantaged communities where teachers are in short supply.

Children sometimes have to walk several kilometers to get to a nearby community that has a school, and situations where one teacher, teaches several grades in a single classroom are usually the norm.

The solution would help ensure that each class receive top quality instruction appropriate to the class

Several of their adults have gone through school, but came out with poor learning outcomes, the solution would provide them a second chance learning opportunity

A solution to the teacher shortage problem will be provided by the
afterhours teacher-training modules that will be built into the programme. The modules will be aired after the regular school hours, and will be available to adults that are desirous of been trained to become teachers. It will help train and increase the number of qualified teachers in the region.
The modules which will incorporate the latest findings in child education and methods of instruction, will in addition to training new teachers, be available as professional development resource for existing teachers and will hopefully go some way in helping to reverse the learning crisis been observed in school systems around the world.

The initiative can also be used to aid the attainment of several of the other SDGs by the inclusion of after school modules that teach:
· Farmers – lessons on improved farming and storage methods to combat extreme poverty and hunger
· Birth Attendants - lessons on child and maternal health.
· Community Health Workers – to promote primary health care deliver and healthy living
· The community at large – lessons on financial literacy including the setting up of microfinance banks and cooperatives; sustainable environmental practice; gender equity, etc. 

The set up can also be used to promote a variety of campaigns, from those seeking to end Female Genital Mutilation to the “Roll Back Malaria” campaign. And others such as the Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) campaign or those seeking to end child marriage.

The parents and the children that live in these disadvantages appreciate the importance of education, and usually go to great lengths to provide/access it. The sad truth is that a lot of what they go to so much trouble to get is of a very poor quality, that it does them little good.

They would therefore appreciate a solution that not only bring education closer to them, but top quality one at that.

The public enlightenment component of the platform would also bring divers benefits to their communities   

The proposed solution have not been implemented anywhere in world