UNICEF Schools for Africa
The Siemens AG supports the UNICEF program “Schools for Africa” and helps build additional class rooms, procure school materials and train teachers in eleven African countries.
Worldwide dedication to education as the basic prerequisite for a promising future is the declared common goal of UNICEF and Siemens. The project was founded by UNICEF in cooperation with the Nelson Mandela Foundation and the Hamburg Society for Promotion of Democracy and International Law. In the African countries south of the Sahara alone, some 45 million children do not attend school. Nearly every second child grows up in an environment marked by ignorance. Poverty and discrimination throughout life are frequently the consequence. Education provides a major opportunity to escape this situation while helping to enlighten people about the threat of AIDS so prevalent throughout all of Africa.
"Schools for Africa" supports children in the eleven African countries of Angola, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Rwanda, South Africa and Zimbabwe. One of the goals of the UNICEF program is to provide 13 million children throughout the project region with basic education by 2015.
Siemens AG and the Siemens Stiftung have so far donated €940,000 to this cause and will continue to support “Schools for Africa“ by donating funds together with its employees.
Millions of children are already profiting from the program
Since the launch of the "Schools for Africa" program in 2005, UNICEF has been able to build or repair more than 1,100 schools in the eleven project countries. Almost 1,000 schools were furnished with drinking water supplies, and more than 900 with separate rest rooms for girls and boys. 2,900 schools received new tables and chairs.
Click here to find out more about the success stories of "Schools for Africa" in the various different countries.
2011-Feb-28 | Author
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