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In August 2024, our team visited our local partner Child Action Lanka (CAL) to help them to transfer their mobile school activities to the east coast of the island. After a successful year in the tea estates of central Sri Lanka, the mobile school will now reach out to communities near the city of Batticaloa.
A new mobile school was implemented in October 2024 in the city of Mendoza, located in central Argentina. There, the team from Generando Puentes began using our mobile school and educational panels to reach out to children living in slum communities around the city.
At the end of 2024, we organised a follow-up with our sole partner in the Middle East. In Souf Camp in Jordan, the team from iLearn, in collaboration with the CBO Al-Aqsa Al-Mubarak, has been using the mobile school since 2022 to reach out to children living in the camp, which was established for Palestinian refugees during the Arab-Israeli war in 1967.
We were thrilled to launch our very first mobile school in Brazil last year! In the city of Fortaleza, our partner, O Pequeno Nazareno, is using the first Brazilian mobile school to enhance their outreach efforts in central locations across the city. The organisation is dedicated to providing opportunities for young people and adolescents living on the streets.
In Uganda, we explored a promising new partnership with our local partner, SALVE International. The organisation helps children leave the streets of Uganda through counseling, care, family reunification, and education. During the trip, we also reconnected with our active mobile school partner, Dwelling Places, in the capital Kampala.
In October 2024, our team visited the mobile school of our partner Save the Children in Bucharest to conduct a one-week follow-up expedition. The project was started in 2022 to work with the large number of Ukrainian refugees arriving in the Romanian capital.
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These projects have already been confirmed for 2023:
Currently, our team is busy translating and adapting all educational materials to Nepali. Within a few months we will ship a school to the organization 'SathSath' in Kathmandu.
Because three mobile schools have already been started in Colombia, there is less preparatory work to start our new collaboration at 'Pastoral Social de la Diócesis' in Armenia, Colombia.
In the pipeline for 2023:
In November 2022 a team explored a potential partnership in Durban. After evaluating this visit, this could lead to the start-up of a first mobile school in South Africa in 2023.
In addition to our projects in Guadalajara, Querétaro and Mexico City, there is a high probability that a second mobile school will be shipped to the Mexican capital.
The next mobile school will be launched in the city of Kabwe, Zambia, during the first quarter of 2025. Our local partner, Unisports Academy, is already using football and educational activities to provide opportunities for the children of the Makululu community, located near the city’s former lead mine.
A second African mobile school is planned for the first half of 2025. Following a successful exploratory visit in November last year, the team at SALVE International in Jinja is eager to implement the mobile school methodology to empower the many street-connected children in this city at the Source of the Nile.
On the educational front, our team is currently working hard to create a new toolkit around trauma-informed care. Together with partners Solidarity Now (Greece), Minor Ndako (Belgium) and Save the Children (Romania), and with the support of ERASMUS+, we are creating new educational posters, activities, audio stories and training for youth workers to work more responsibly with vulnerable children.
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