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Funding for Education in Sierra Leone

Funding for Education in Sierra Leone

This week Canada announced its first education project to be funded from the $400 million G7 Charlevoix Declaration on Quality Education made in June 2018.  The Honourable Maryam Monsef announced  $5-million to support the Canadian Organization for Development through Education (CODE) project in Sierra Leone, “Transforming Girls’ Education.”  This project will train more than 200 teachers in gender-responsive pedagogy. Over 160,000 students will benefit from this initiative. Congratulations to CODE for their successful proposal.

Read more at

https://www.canada.ca/en/global-affairs/news/2019/06/minister-monsef-announces-support-for-education-project-in-sierra-leone.html

 

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