Contribution to Millennium Development Goals:

• Goal 3 - Achieve universal primary education
• Goal 4 - Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women - This goal aims to eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015

FOL is committed to the achievement of these education goals.

Education Bursaries

FOL Ireland supports the education (primary, secondary and university) of the children in Bethel Children's Home. Some of the children have already started university education, and more continue to strive for it.

We have also a bursary fund for people in the communities where we work to apply for education. At the moment we are supporting several students in nursing pharmacy, carpentary, skills based training, Secondary School, and Primary School. We hope to increase this fund in 2008.

Adult Literacy

FOL supports several Adult Literacy groups in the villages in which we work. These are run by local people who have been trained as Literacy Instructors by FOL.

Health Clubs

FOL works in local schools on education programmes on HIV/AIDS, Nutrition, Hygiene and Water. THese programmes were originally developed as part of the Harambee 2005 project and have continued since. FOL has a partnership with the Ministry of Education Londiani Division, and hopes to further this partnership in the future.

Research Thesis for FOL

For comments or questions please contact:
Friends of Londiani, 9 Cois Cuain, Mosestown, Whitegate, Co. Cork; Telephone: +353 21 4662730; info@friendsoflondiani.com

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