Teacher training in Madagascar’s church schools

A widely recognized key to a nation’s or region’s development is access to quality education. Equipped with education, people become better parents, reducing infant mortality and disease, encouraging better school attendance, and being more able to provide a nurturing environment for their children.

Research shows that educated people often have fewer children to care for, find more employment, and make more money. They are better able to diversify their wealth, use personal wealth in ways that benefit their children and family, and participate more effectively in civic engagement. In short, educated people enjoy an improved quality of life. Other things can and do contribute to these outcomes, but education is believed to work towards these ends almost anywhere where it occurs or where its quality is improved.

In a pilot program in one of Madagascar’s church-run schools, test scores improved from an average of 60% correct to more than 90% after the introduction of Evidence-Based Methods of Instruction, or EBMI, was begun at the request of the Church of Jesus Christ in Madagascar (FJKM). The EBMI program has expanded beyond the pilot program, and the FJKM needs funds to extend it to the church’s more than 700 primary and secondary schools. The program needs about 1,000 euros a month to pay for teacher educator coaches and staff. Our gifts can help educate future generations and lift them out of poverty. Thank you for your generosity!

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