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Students celebrating the opening of
Restore One’s year 12 classroom.

Investing in Quality Rural Education

Global Development Group believes in projects that invest there is a risk that after students integrate into the public
in rural communities. Improving the capacity of schools in rote-learning system these outcomes won’t continue. To
rural areas ensure that students have every opportunity to address this, the project has recognised the benefit of teaching
access learning whilst staying connected with their home students to read in Kindergarten, empowering them towards
communities. independent learning.

In Uganda, J967N The Road to Gulu Project sponsors 110 The opening of the J789N Restore One Cambodia Village
students from Kindergarten to University, construction was Development project’s year 12 classroom was celebrated
recently completed on the project’s own Lukodi Kindergarten in December 2019, completing the school’s facilities from
and Education Centre and a wide range of subjects were preschool to year 12. The project has recently transferred the
taught in the Ezone tutoring program. In July 2019 a primary school to the government, which now pays their own
Mathematics Teacher Training Conference was held, with 26 teachers and principal. This year the community experienced
Primary and Early Childhood Teachers from 4 local schools an increase in ownership and pride around the school facilities,
attending. Our partner reports that these programs resulted this was evidenced through interviews with students during
in improved learning and morale with new activity-based the monitoring visit by a GDG team in 2019. Since March 2020,
techniques introduced. GDG’s Josh Edwards and Natalie classes have been disrupted by COVID-19 restrictions but
Campbell monitored the project in August 2019 and they teachers are working with students in groups using Facebook
heard about a challenge identified by our partner. Whilst the Messenger to promote ongoing learning.
Kindergarten graduates’ learning outcomes are excellent,

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