“Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all”

Education saves lives, protects, reduces inequality, and builds stable and prosperous societies. Therefore, Quality Education is at the core of YRA’s mission and critical to achieving our breakthroughs:

YRA believes that all children have the right to learn from a quality basic education. We work with families and communities to ensure that all children receive the support and care they need in the years leading up to school. We work to ensure that all children learn to read and write in safe and happy learning spaces, and that no child’s learning stops because they are caught up in a crisis situation.

Our Programs

• Quality Enhancement – Improving enrolment and learning outcomes of students through interventions across – (i) Infrastructure Strengthening (ii) Creating Learning Environment; (iii) Strengthening Leadership & Management (creating a participatory form of management including all stakeholders – principal, teachers, students, parents, SMC members, community); (iv) Community Engagement & Participation
• Bridge and Remedial Education – (Preparing school children for joyful learning, mainstreaming and remedial support)
• Inclusion & Child Protection – protect them from trafficking, forced marriage and other forms of abuse and exploitation through Child Line Program
• Digital Platforms for strengthening learning through Digital Literacy Program

The skilling initiatives of YRA focus on employable skill training for local communities, especially youth and women; create micro-enterprise opportunities. YRA’s skilling initiatives aim to promote sustainable livelihood opportunities that create strong and self-reliant people and communities. This is achieved through a variety of vocational and entrepreneurial subjects that lead to dignified work opportunities.

We believe it is unacceptable that any child should be a victim of violence of any description either in school, or on the journey to and from school – including sexual violence or harassment, bullying and intimidation, and corporal punishment. We recognize that school-related gender-based violence is a significant factor preventing girls from accessing and completing school and are committed to eliminating such violence through our advocacy and programming work.