Education

The goal of SCC's education program in Somalia has been to assist local governments, service providers, and communities in ensuring that both girls and boys enroll in and remain in school and that they graduate with the skills necessary to end their cycle of dependency and poverty. The projects work with primary, secondary, TVET (Technical Vocational Education Training), and family life education centers, giving vulnerable, orphaned, and disabled girls additional attention. To strengthen systems, processes, and human resources for efficient service delivery, we work to increase inclusive access to and completion of education for learners at all levels. Our educational initiatives are focused on the development of fundamental skills, practical adult learning, vocational education and rehabilitation, and the establishment and reactivation of primary education. We strive to address the social, economic, and cultural barriers to education, especially barriers to girls’ education. These are highlighted in the mobilization campaigns and teacher training where gender-responsive teaching is incorporated in the training materials.

In addition, gender-responsive facilities have been built into all construction and rehabilitation activities, ensuring privacy for girls through proper location and separate latrines for girls and boys. The school feeding program has given a new lease of life to hundreds of children who receive a warm, healthy meal each day – sometimes the only food they will get in a day.

KEY ACTIVITIES

Construction and rehabilitation of classrooms and latrines
Provision of educational materials to schools to enhance the quality of teaching and learning
Training of teachers on child-centred methodologies
Disbursement of scholarships to needy students
Payment of monthly incentives to teachers and Headteachers
Provision of water storage tanks to schools
Provision of safe drinking water to schools
Supporting schools’ improvement with microgrants
Training of Community Education Committees
School feeding
Support to school costs, including exam fees, uniforms, solar lamps, and sanitary kits.
Supporting girls’ and boys’ leadership networks.
Preventing violence and engaging girls and boys in building safer communities.
Development of action plans to improve sustainability and impact.

IMPACT

143,567 Lives

In the last three years, our EDUCATION sector has impacted 143,567 lives through our education programming geared towards basic education development, functional adult learning, vocational education and rehabilitation, construction and reactivation of primary education, and provision of emergency education services for crisis contexts.

Our Vision

Peaceful, justice, and prosperous Somalia

Our Core Values

SCC is committed to promoting the following values:

Commitment: Those we serve come first in everything we do. We champion the realization of their full potential to lead fulfilling lives and contribute meaningfully to society.
Results orientation: We are driven by the changes and impacts we exist to create. We are committed to providing timely and high-quality solutions and services.
Open communication: We believe in granting access to information. We value and use the best approaches to communicate amongst ourselves and with others. We support all stakeholders to understand and express themselves in relation to their wellbeing and provide input in our service delivery
Competence: We are committed to acquire, develop and retain the highest possible quality personnel as a basis of assuring the best organizational performance and standards.
Creativity and innovation: We are committed to ensuring a work environment that encourages innovativeness and embraces new ideas and technologies to make our work more effective.

Areas of intervention

SCC is implementing software and hardware programs in the areas of WASH, Protection, GBV, food security, conflict resolution and peacebuilding, and Education.

Our local and international partners, with whom we have created real sustainable work; our workers, local and expatriates, who often cooperate with us for decades; the final beneficiaries of the interventions; local and international authorities; friends and supporters.

Over the years we have developed projects in a whole range of sectors: such as Health care and Nutrition, Vocational Training, Primary Education, Protection, and Environmental Sustainability, WASH programs for IDPs and poor hosting communities to increasingly complex and innovative projects – economic projects; support to small and medium organizations and Cooperatives; Capacity Building of institutions, both public and created by local civil society; protection of human rights; habitat and territory.

We also learned to deal with humanitarian aid and emergency (environmental and social) and with the security issues that these interventions require. We currently read development projects as opportunity and sustainable.

With conviction and pragmatism, we want to go beyond the logic of gift whenever the conditions of the communities we work with permit this approach: in Somalia and in the neighboring countries our partners ask for a real partnership. This means accepting with the courage to overturn our role.

Education

Our Vision

Our Core Values

Areas of intervention

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