April 2008

The aim of the study grant programme for secondary education is to try to ensure that young people aged 12 and 16 in rural areas facing economic difficulties have a chance to continue and finish their secondary education.

The vast majority of young people in rural areas give up education after finishing primary school. This is in no way due to a lack of interest on their part but rather because the circumstances in which they live force them to stop school. In order to go to class they have to travel several kilometres every day or move to the nearest village. This implies a huge range of difficulties for the families involved, such as transport costs or rent for some kind of reasonably safe, comfortable accommodation to enable their children to develop properly or the cost of food or school materials, etc.

At ANUPAZ we have seen this sort of thing first-hand, since every year a number of girls and boys give up their education because they simply have no alternative. After that, they work with their families, helping to bring up smaller children and carrying out tasks which are not suitable for their age or stage of emotional development, etc

Through this programme, ANUPAZ hopes to offer them a different choice – the possibility of something which is completely normal and even taken for granted by the majority of young people of their age but which, for them, represents a real source of happiness and a further step towards a better future.

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Thanks to cooperation from the Association Femmes d’Europe the work to finish off the construction of the school is now being undertaken. The building in general, including the roof and the walls, was in a very poor state. The work done by ANUPAZ includes finishing off the roofing and walls, the toilets and the kitchen, putting in tiles and 3 doors, damp-proofing and painting the whole of the building.

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