Éducation

Subsidized School Fees in South Africa

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Organization:

Jesuit Refugee Service

Date program started:

2011

Purpose:

  • Help make education more accessible to urban refugees in South Africa

Objective:

  • Provide financial and material support to refugee children attending school
  • Increase knowledge of refugee education rights

Targeted population:

  • Primary and secondary age refugee children
  • Parents of refugee children
  • Social workers

Challenge addressed:

  • Economic barriers to education for urban refugee children
  • Lack of knowledge about refugee children’s right to education

Program description:

  • School fees for refugee children attending primary and secondary schools in Pretoria and Johannesburg were subsidized
  • Additional resources including stationary, books and school uniforms were provided
  • Transportation was also provided to ensure refugees could reach schools
  • Six workshops on education rights were held for the children’s parents
  • Social workers advocated for fee waivers or fee reduction for secondary school children

Impact on targeted population:

  • Finacial and material barriers to education were lowered for recipiant refugee children in Petoria and Johannesburg
  • In 2011, there were 3,700 people served by Jesuit Refugee Service’s education programs

Conditions required:

  • Refugee children’s enrolment in schools
  • Funds to be able to subsidize school fees and school supplies

Resources:

JRS – Urban Refugees

JRS – Annual Report 2011

NOTRE IMPACT

  • 3700

    réfugiés ont un meilleur accès à l’éducation et à des moyens de subsistance

  • 40

    pays dans lesquels nous avons des ONG partenaires

  • 490

    enfants ont accès à des cours de mathématiques, d’art, de langue et de sport

  • 700

    femmes peuvent maintenant subvenir aux besoins de leur famille

  • 650

    réfugiés ont accès à des informations clés pour leur sécurité

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