Hong Hien Ban Hao development project

Information about Hong Hien Ban Hao development project

Our Hong Hien Ban Hao development project is one of the projects of the Association for Rural Mobilization and Improvement (ARMI), which has been implemented in 12 target schools in Adsaphone District, Savannakhet Province. The project was funded by the Switzerland Co-operation Organization, worth 120,720 US dollars, which has a project implementation period starting from June 25, 2020 - March 31, 2022, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Sports, represented by the Department of Education and Sports of Savannakhet Province.

Our village school development project (HBH) is a project that supported and contributed to the implementation of SDG 4 sustainable development goals, namely: ensuring equal and universal quality education and promoting life-long learning opportunities for all and contributing to the 9th Five-Year National Socio-economic Development Plan that is in line with the 2nd goal as well as the 2nd focus work plan to improve the quality of education at all levels either to create conditions for access to education in order to be ready to integrate with the region and internationally in supporting the industry 4.0.

According to the primary data collection before the implementation of the project, it has seen that the number of schools in the target villages of the project still have many things that are insufficient, such as: teaching-learning equipment, classrooms, teachers have not received training in new teaching skills, poor families do not have money to buy clothes and school supplies for their children, and they did not pay attention to see the importance to their children's education. In addition, the implementation of the roles of the village education development board, including the promotion of the education of parents and students, had not been done well.

Therefore, in order to strengthen the capacity, support, promote and solve the above-mentioned problems, the development project of our village school (HBH) has been established. The direct beneficiaries are 622 students and the indirect beneficiaries are teachers, parents, village education development committees and village authorities around 1,000 people.

The project has estimated results as follows:

• The drop-out rate and class arrears of students at the target school does not exceed 5%.

• At least 80% of the teachers at the target schools use the new teaching techniques that have been trained by the project (38 teachers).

• At least 50% of the village education development committee of the target school initiates the maintenance and repair of the school with the support of the villagers.

activities

1. Improvement of school facilities

• Improve and repair school buildings and desks.

• Improve the school grounds.

• Build reading room (corner for reading books).

• Support learning materials for students.

• Support teaching and learning materials.

2. Teaching and learning support

• Train primary school teachers

• Provide excellence awards for schools, excellent teacher and volunteer teachers of the year

• Celebrate International Children's Day

• Changing behavior and training life skills (environmental, health, gender roles, strengthening life skills in cooking, agriculture, traditional knowledge, etc.)

3. Building the educational capacity of the community

• Strengthening the Village Education Development Board

• Committee meeting

• Students’ parents meeting

Improvement of school facilities

Because the target school did not have many facilities that will attract the attention of students to come to school, such as: teaching-learning equipment, dilapidated building, broken desks, not enough bathrooms, some schools do not have a school yard for children to do activities, there is no reading room and the textbook is not enough. In order to contribute and solve the above problems, there are the following activities:

Improve and repair school buildings and desks

This activity was implemented together with partners such as: teachers-students from technical-vocational college in Savannakhet province and parents of students who participated, such as painting the school sign with letters, building a barbed fence around the school, building a flag pole, bulletin information board, bookcase, building a new bathroom, building an additional wooden classroom, providing a new blackboard, demolishing the old school and moving to build a new school using old wood and new wood from the contribution of the village and drilling water bore system.

Improve the school grounds

School area improvement activities, project teams have joined with parents, students, village education development board, Vocational Technical College, village technicians to implement school area improvement activities such as: making toys, the process of making traditional playground equipment (Outdoor playground/wooden swings, Douang dang) and using car tires as a playground.

Build reading room/corner for reading books promotion

Project teams have implemented this activity in 10 schools which supported plastic bookshelf, 449 story books, 2 stories each, totaling 1,298 books, providing paper stories, poem-story books that the district technician and project staff have produced simple copies of 7 stories on paper for all 38 teachers to use in storytelling activities for students before starting learning session

Support learning materials for students

Project supported learning materials for 1,490 students (787 girls) in 12 schools. Among them, there are 306 students from poor families. Support for student equipment includes: schoolbags, notebooks, pens and pencils.

Support equipment and teaching-learning materials

Project have supported teaching-learning materials which included wooden ruler (long, right triangle, equal triangle and angle), abacus, Lao alphabet cards, English alphabet cards, vowel cards, number cards, animal name cards, occupation name cards, fruit name cards, Lao spelling tone posters, human anatomy wording poster (Lao/English), recipes multiplication formula poster, vowel poster in Lao language, map of Laos, world map and simulated earth unit. The direct beneficiaries are 38 teachers and 609 students.