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VIEW GRANT RECIPIENTS
INVESTMENT THEMES
Education
East Head Impact grants approved to date total £947,448
WHAT OUR PARTNER SAYs
"East Head Impact is a highly valued strategic partner for UWS. Their due diligence is smart, thorough and demanding. This equips East Head Impact to support UWS as we develop innovative new programmes.
UWS also leverages the East Head Impact partnership to attract other key partners for our shared mission to transform the lives of children through a quality education."
GRANTS IN EDUCATION 2022 - 2024
United World Schools
UWS is a registered charity with a vision of a world with Zero Education Poverty by building and running primary schools for out-of-school children in remote areas of Nepal, Cambodia, Madagascar and Myanmar.
It provides children with quality and inclusive education by working in partnership with local communities, and runs training programmes for the teachers who work in its schools.
UWS works with communities to build primary schools and train community members as teachers, providing a low cost and sustainable way to improve life opportunities for some children living in remote and marginalised communities.
*Registered Charity Number: 1187721
GRANTS IN EDUCATION 2022-2023
Charity Overview
UWS works to ensure children have access to quality, inclusive education in remote and marginalised communities.
It works in partnership with communities and governments to develop schools over a 5-7 year period and then transitions them to local community and government ownership, thereby empowering communities in governance, leadership and school management. UWS’s vision is Zero Education Poverty – a world where every child can reach their full potential through
education.
Since its foundation in 2008, UWS has established 311 schools, 68 of which have transitioned to the state education system, and provided an education to over 63,800 children. Currently, 24,120 primary school children are enrolled in 243 UWS schools who are taught by 1,330 teachers trained by UWS. UWS’ goal is to reach 250,000 primary school children with a life changing education in the next 10 years.
The purpose of East Head Impact’s 2023 three-year grant of £357,520 over the 2023/24 to 2025/26 period is to support UWS with the next stage of its expansion into Madagascar by funding: the operating costs of a training programme for teachers who will work in 25 UWS schools located in the southwest of Madagascar, the operating costs of four UWS schools located in the same region which were built and opened in 2022/23, and the capital costs of furniture, handwashing facilities and playgrounds for the four schools.
This 2023 grant follows-on from East Head Impact’s grant of £81,000 to UWS in 2002 which was made for the purpose of funding the construction of two schools in Nepal and their operating costs for a two-year period.
UWS’ Annual Reports and Impact Reports can be found on uwsglobal.net.
EAST HEAD IMPACT FUNDED SCHOOLS
GRANTS IN EDUCATION - 2023
Impact of the 2023 grant
UWS successfully expanded into Madagascar in September 2021 and has since built and runs 11 primary schools in the southwest region, with 2,170 children enrolled and 66 new teachers trained.
The plan for the next stage of the expansion is to increase the number of schools in the region to 25, and UWS has set a 10-year goal to build and run 200 primary schools, employ and train 500 teachers and enrol 80,000 children in Madagascar. In order to achieve these goals, UWS’s strategy to deal with a severe shortage of teachers in the country is to build and run eight regional Administration, Resource and Training Centres (ATRs) where UWS teachers will be trained.
The construction of the first of these ATRs in Andavadoaka was recently completed and will be used as a ‘local hub’ to train teachers in the 25 schools in the southwest region. The first training session in the Andavadoaka ATR took place in August 2023 and involved 140 teachers.
The teacher training programme funded by East head Impact over the three-year period will take place in the Andavadoaka ATR and involve four training courses of 1-2 weeks each per year for 200 UWS teachers (eight per school) in this 25-school local hub, and four training courses per year for each of the 250 members of the School Support Committees (10 per school).
The teacher training programme will be undertaken by a team of 11 UWS staff - an Education Specialist who will oversee the quality of education delivery and teacher training, two Education Managers who will be responsible for delivering the teacher training programme and eight School Mobilisers who will assess UWS’ schools and teacher performance and offer bespoke training in the classroom.
GRANTS IN EDUCATION 2022 - 2023
Impact of the 2022 grant
East Head Impact’s grant funded the construction of the Tembe village school in eastern Nepal and the Pipaldhara village school in central Nepal together with their operating costs for two years.
Construction of the Tembe village school was completed in January 2023. It is comprised of 11 classrooms, a library and washrooms, and 73 primary school children are currently enrolled who are taught by 6 teachers trained and employed by UWS. Literacy rates among adults in the village is 30% and, prior to the opening of the school, 70% of the 275 primary aged children were not in education.
Construction of the Pipaldhara village school was completed in April 2024. It is comprised of 5 classrooms and a washroom, and 119 primary school children are currently enrolled who are taught by 9 teachers trained and employed by UWS. Literacy rates among adults in the village is below 40% and 85% of the 159 primary school aged children in the village were not in education prior to the opening of the school.
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