African Revival

About us

Our vision is an Africa where every child has equal access to education, as we believe education is the key to overcoming poverty. Since 2005, we have worked with primary and nursery schools in Uganda, Zambia & South Sudan to allow every child to fulfil their potential.

Our mission is to transform schools in Africa into effective and thriving teaching and learning environments – schools in which skilled and motivated teachers are supported by the parents and community in providing quality education to pre-primary and primary school children.

Our work
We don’t just build infrastructure and implement education and livelihood projects, we empower whole communities – pupils, teachers and parents – to transform rural schools into thriving learning environments that build brighter, better futures.

Projects and programmes
• Infrastructure: We build wheelchair accessible, furnished classroom blocks with locakble offices, rainwater harvesting, tanks and latrines for puils and staff, with changing rooms for girls. All construction is using eco-friendly ISSB (interlocking stabilised soil blocks).
• Teacher Training: We continue to support teachers Northern Uganda and South Sudan, by providing in-service training and materials.
• Girls‘ Advocacy Clubs: Building on our multi-year Girls & Sanitation programme to help keep girls in education, to date, we have estrablished supportive and empowering Girl’s Advocacy Clubs (GACs) at 63 primary schools in two districts of Northern Uganda. Each club has 30 members, led by two Girls’ Club Leaders, elected by their peer group and supported by senior female teachers. Club activities include debates, workshops and training to address issues such as good WASH practices, MHM, puberty, child marriage, assertiveness, and life skills; helping girls develop positive habits from a young age. Girls‘ Club members ans some invited boys are trained how to make reusable sanitary pads as part of the project.
• Step Up: Three-year project to establish low-cost ECD nurseries at five primary schools in the Amuru District of Northern Uganda, providing training to viluntary teachers on lesson planning, learning through play and Phonics.
• Read Together: Aims to support distribution of Book Aid International donated reading books by providing Read Together libraries on wheels, which ensure books are stored correctly on shelves and easy to access but can also be locked away at the end of the school day for security, along with one-day reading workshops – training teachers how to set up a simple lending library and how to read aloud to children, showing pupils how to use and handle books, reading them a story in a fun and animated way to bring the characters to life and guiding fun book-themed activities.
• Mega Phonics: Phonics is an innovative teaching method, that correlates sounds with letters, providing children with a stronger literary foundation that is central to academic achievement in all subjects. In Uganda, the awareness and acceptance of Phonics as an effective teaching method is growing – it is recognised by the Government of Uganda and included in the syllabus for training primary teachers, but unfortunately not in enough detail. Most voluntary teachers in rural schools where we work are not familiar with Phonics at all. We have trained teachers at 20+ rural schools and student teacher at Kitgum Core PTC on Phonics methodology.

Abi Dar is the Executive Director of African Revival.

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