CORAfrica EDUCATION

Our Educational Component is made up of the Primary and Secondary schools, Tertiary Institutions and Vocational Education Centers. This is considered key to helping children and communities thrive.

Children learn from both schools and the community, and so, our children will actively be involved in these key areas of learning, while practically having hands-on experience. Through our Vocational and Skills acquisition Centres (VASAC), pilot systems will be operated to enable them practice skills that will sustain them for life.

Our CECs will enable children and Youth access high quality education supplemented by high quality healthcare, clean water, and avenues for economic empowerment. These will be epicenters of impact that will launch ever-expanding ripples of positive transformation.

Something is going in our educational system because the CORE foundation of our educational system, the very fabric of our African society is under threat. It is time for teachers and opinion leaders, who are the gatekeepers in our Society to teach the CORE values that our society is built on.

We all need to ensure that our children get the best out of their Educational training through

• Training of the hands (Skills Acquisition)
• Training of the brain (Intellectual Knowledge)
• Training of the heart (CORE Values)

We all need to ensure that the education of children involves training of the heart by encouraging:

• The Dignity of the human person.
• Solidarity and the common good.
• Self-reliance for sustainability

CORAfrica LIVELIHOOD

CORAfrica’s livelihood and food security strategy plan contributes to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This includes: No poverty, Zero hunger, Gender equality, Decent work and economic growth, Reduce inequality.

This strategy builds on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:

• Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of him/herself and of his/her family, including food, clothing, housing, medical care, necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his/her control.
• Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
• Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.
• Everyone who works has the right to just and favorable remuneration ensuring for him/herself and his/her family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.

To contribute to the SDGs and the human rights, CORAfrica through her 2023 strategic plan shall:

• Provide food assistance to prevent loss of life and contributes to the rehabilitation of local food and market systems.
• Promote livelihood strategies which protect, recover and strengthen individuals’ and households’ abilities to earn a living.
• To prevent repeat displacement, and support conditions conducive to durable solutions, we support engagement in social and economic opportunities that reinforce the adaptive capacity of systems, individuals, families and communities affected by displacement.

Following the definition of “food security” it exists when all people at all times do not
have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food which
meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.

CORAfrica four key pillarsto restson are:
1. Crate availability to diverse and nutritious foods.

2. Physical, economic and social access to nutritious foods.

3. Adequate utilization of food items consumed to maintain a healthy nutritional well-being.

4. strengthening stability of the pillars and systems people rely on over time.

We shall contribute to achieve livelihood security by securing adequate and sustainable
access to income and other resources to enable households to meet basic needs. This
includes adequate access to food, Skill acquisition, potable water, health facilities,
educational opportunities, housing, and time for community participation and social
integration.

CORAfrica, THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN COMMUNITY BUILDING

“How do we mobilize women to lead the demand for increased access to agricultural input and benefit more from livelihood programs and initiatives?”

It is the rural poor women and children who mostly bear the brunt of poverty and starvation, and have higher incidences of diseases.

It is women that majorly take-on the herculean tasks of providing the needed fuel for household use including the fetching of fuelwood.

It is the women who carry the responsibility of cooking and feeding the family, and stay near fireplaces, many at times with their children by their side or strapped to their backs while cooking.

It is the women who are therefore, the immediate recipient of hazardous smoke emanating from the use of biomass fuels, with the resultant deleterious effect on their eyes, respiratory functions, health, and general wellbeing.

CORAfrica is designing a gender-based social enterprise model that would be incorporated into this current and all projects or activities to bring about direct significant socio-economic benefit for the refugees and rural women with their children. This model would not only benefit the women, but it would also create access to cost effective livelihood produce, products, and services for individuals and households. It will also help change the attitude of community members to embrace and support women-led initiatives or programs for development.