All Children In This Scheme Go To School. None Of Them Goes To School Bare-footed Or Without Books. This Contributes Immensely To Increasing Both Their Attendance And Concentration Level In Class.

Climate change and its effects: drought and flood take toll on education by affecting the stability of communities and breaking the course of school and academic sessions. Flood and drought affect children and their ability to get an education by forcing families to move to safer and greener areas where schools are sometimes inexistent or simply unaffordable for parents who have lost or left everything behind.

About 80% of small farmers in the world practice subsistence agriculture. The quantity and quality of their harvests fluctuate depending on the quantity of rainfall and temperature. Increased temperature and decreased rainfall lower crop yield, which in turn decreases individual families’ incomes. With less disposable income, families are more likely to spend their money on necessities like food rather than on schooling fees.

Families are also more likely to pull children out of school so that kids can work and contribute to the diminished family income says Sarah Haurin. Experience has shown that families that place the education of their children at the top of their priorities succeed in sending them to school despite the precarious conditions climate change has put them in Unfortunately those children’s school attendance and concentration levels are so low that they find it extremely difficult to assimilate lessons taught in class.

Most of them go to school empty stomach, barefooted, without books; some have to go from house to house selling vegetables or grains or cover tens of miles to fetch water and fire wood before going to school. Once in class they are absent minded and will be yawning throughout the day.

The CCRF’s scheme takes into account the precariousness of the conditions of these children and their families and offers them the education that will guaranty them a better future.