ARK Secondary School Education Program

  • P Project/Program

? Activity Status: Unknown

Key Information

ARK operates several self-sustaining boarding and day secondary schools in East Africa that target orphans and vulnerable children. All of our schools focus on comprehensive education and support services all in one place. ARK schools educate students and their families by using appropriate tools that provide useful and practical skills in conjunction with the required formal secondary school curriculum. Our schools operate all year around, to allow children who do not have a place to call home to have a place stay, priority is put on orphans, especially girls.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)
Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Kenya, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania

Activity URL

https://arkafrica.org/secondaryed.html

Government Affiliation
Non-governmental program
Years

Not applicable or unknown

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation
Unknown
Funder(s)

Not applicable or unknown

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
Attainment
  • Secondary completion
Other skills
  • Rights/empowerment education
Quality
  • School quality
Skills
  • Civics education
  • Literacy
  • Numeracy
  • STEM
Cross-cutting areas
  • Empowerment
  • Gender equality
Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Girls in school, Youth

Age

14 - 17

School Enrolment Status

All in school

School Level

  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary
Other populations reached
  • Boys in school
  • Youth
Participants include
  • Orphans and vulnerable children
Program Approaches Back to Top
Food/nutrition
  • School feeding
Increased availability of learning materials
  • Textbooks (unspecified)
Learning while working
  • Work-study
Life skills education
  • Gender, rights and power
Reducing economic barriers
  • Scholarships/stipends for school fees
School-related gender-based violence
  • Safe and welcoming schools
  • Support in and around schools (e.g. peer counseling, adult-to-student counseling)
Tutoring/strengthening academic skills
  • Literacy - in the classroom
  • Numeracy - in the classroom
  • STEM - in the classroom
Women's empowerment programs
  • Empowerment training
Program Goals Back to Top
Education goals
  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Increased grade attainment
  • Increased secondary school completion
  • Increased test scores
  • Increased years of schooling
Cross-cutting goals
  • Increased employment/job-related skills
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms