APS

Commune of Arbollé
Province of Passoré

• Care for and the awakening of potential of children in rural areas
• Training and basic literacy for children from 2 to 6 years of age
• Facilitate the job of the women in the Commune by assisting in the encouragement of the psycho-motor development of their children

• Meaningfully improve the condition of small children (from 2 to 6 years of age) in rural areas, precisely in the Commune of Arbollé
• Encourage the psycho-motor development of children, increasing their aptitude to education at the primary, secondary, and university levels
• Encourage the social integration of orphans of AIDS
• Provide the parents and caregivers of children more time to tend to their agricultural work and other income generating activities
• Contribute to promoting the rights of children through instruction and care in the Center for Care and Instruction of Children in the Commune

• In two years, undertake the instruction of 100 children using the resources of the Center for Care and Instruction of Children in the Commune of Arbollé
• Ensure the psycho-motor development as well as nutritional and sanitary monitoring of children in the region
• Liberate women and caregivers to devote more time, without distraction, to activities benefiting their family and home
• Provide the Center with a local staff, qualified to instruct and encourage young children

1. Training of Literacy teachers, Supervisors, and Youth Leaders
2. Empowerment of managment committees
3. Awareness-building for the beneficiaries
4. Application of the Gender approach and the Participative approach
5. Attention to and support of themes of interest during training sessions
6. Promotion of the means and methods of self-promotion
7. Constant monitoring and evaluation

Start date: September 2008
End date: September 2009

1. Construction of Classrooms and the equipping of the Center for Care and Instruction

2. Training of community teachers

3. Encouraging pedagogical development of children

4. Nutritional and sanitary monitoring

5. Awareness-building of families on the Rights of the Child

6. Support of children of vulnerable families

7. Construction and equipping of the center

   The center will be constructed on previously acquired land and will consist of :

   • trois (3) appâtames en tuiles avec une capacité 30 enfants chacun maximum
   • one store, 20 m²
   • one 12 m² kitchen, equipped with two improved cooking surfaces
   • one hall to house the children for snack time, to house group activities (group instruction, games, activity during bad weather)
8. Training of community teachers

   Three community teachers will be recruited from amongts the women and girls of the community of at least 20 years of age and having achieved at least the CEPE. They will be trained by a preschool specialist in pedagogical instruction methods, and in the nutritional and sanitary monitoring of children admitted to the center. This training will take into account the sociological, economic, and environmental realities of the village. The teachers will be evaluated during visits by an agent of the Ministry of Social Action responsible for preschool education

9. Pedagogical instruction of children

   This instruction will consist of implementation of an educational programme including essential pedagogical activities (socio-emotional, socio-cultura, and intellectual development)

10. Nutritional and sanitary monitoring

• Better school results for children
• The proper functioning of the Centre for Care and Instruction
• The social integration of orphaned and vulnerable children
• Parents enrol their children in the Centre for Care and Instruction
• The regular attendance of children at the centre
• The trained local teachers apply their knowledge of the education of young children
• An improvement in the health status of children (reduction of childhood illnesses, etc.)
• A change in the behaviour of children (hygiene, intellectual development)
• An improvement in the nutritional state of children
• The centre’s management committee handles all registration charges and fees

• Permanent internal monitoring – village groups and management committees will monitor the centre’s activities on a day-to-day basis and will report on their findings to the teachers and supervisors
• Punctual monitoring : Will be completed by supervisors throughtout the school year. The supervisors will use monitoring sheets to provide standardization of this practice
• Evaluation : Will be conducted by the Social Action Service, based on objectively verifiable indicators defined by the group agreement, with respect to the goals and expected results of the project

• Women’s groups of Arbollé
• Women’s Programmes of APS

• Association les Amis de Arbollé
• Amies Espagnoles
• APS