Second Chance (Luminos Fund)

  • P Project/Program

? Activity Status: Unknown

Key Information

The Second Chance program employs an innovative, accelerated learning pedagogy–as well as supplemental programs in the community–to enable older children who have been kept out of school to get a second chance at an education. To date, the Second Chance program has enabled over 118,000 children across Africa to get back to school. The Luminos Fund currently operates the Second Chance program in Ethiopia–where it is known as Speed School–and Liberia. The Second Chance program employs an intensive, child-centered approach to reach the most marginalized populations, children denied an education due to poverty, conflict, or discrimination. Program components include an accelerated learning curriculum, community mobilization and capacity building.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)
Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Ethiopia, Liberia

Activity URL

https://luminosfund.org/second-chance/

Government Affiliation
Government-affiliated program
Years

Not applicable or unknown

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation
Ministry of Education, Liberia and Ethiopia
Funder(s)

Legatum Foundation, Dubai Cares, Cartier Philanthropy, UBS Optimus Foundation, Mulago, The Peter Cundill Foundation

COVID-19 Response
Unknown
Geographic Scope
Global / regional
Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  
Unknown
Areas of Work Back to Top
Education areas
Other
  • Other
Quality
  • School quality
Skills
  • Literacy
  • Numeracy
Cross-cutting areas
  • Emergencies and protracted crises
Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Boys (both in school and out of school), Girls (both in school and out of school), Youth

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

  • Lower primary
  • Upper primary
  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary
Other populations reached
  • Boys (both in school and out of school)
  • Girls (both in school and out of school)
Participants include
  • Displaced/refugee - External (from other countries)
  • Displaced/refugee - Internal (from other areas of the same country)
  • Orphans and vulnerable children
Program Approaches Back to Top
Access to school
  • Alternative learning centers/mobile schools/home schools
  • Extending school hours
Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization
  • Community mobilization
  • General awareness-raising/community engagement
Curriculum/learning
  • Remedial education/skills
Social/gender norms change
  • Engaging parents/caregivers of students or school-age children/adolescents
Tutoring/strengthening academic skills
  • Literacy - in the classroom
  • Numeracy - in the classroom
Program Goals Back to Top
Education goals
  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Increased re-enrolment in school among out-of-school children
  • Increased school completion (general)
  • Increased school enrolment (general)
Cross-cutting goals
  • Increased agency and empowerment