CAFT (Centre d'apprentissage et de Formation pour la Transformation)

The potential to bring about significant change in a country of despair

The Centre d’apprentissage et de Formation pour la Transformation (CAFT) is a registered foundation with the Haitian Ministry of Social Affairs and is authorized to function as a training agency by the Ministry of Education. In a country with 500,000 children out of school, and another two million suffering the consequences of an antiquated anti-pedagogical form of instruction, the problems seem insurmountable. CAFT feels acutely the growing despair of the youth in Haiti; even the 1% who complete the primary and secondary school cycles are doomed in large majority to rejection by the country’s universities which can only receive 8000 of 35,000 graduates each year.

But in this bleak picture CAFT also sees the potential to bring about significant change through the application of solid principles and innovative “best practices” gleaned from research and participatory design with teachers. Through training and the application of innovative and transformational educational programs, both formal and non-formal, CAFT strives to foster positive change in the knowledge, attitudes and capacities of Haitian educators and thus contribute to the well-being of the Haitian population, especially the underprivileged.

The aim of CAFT in 2010-2011 is to advance as quickly and effectively as possible towards the goal of refining and developing its approach and materials with a small group of schools in order to be able to offer them eventually on a wider scale.

It is the hope of CAFT that these actions will not only enhance and increase the efforts and impact of the previous year’s work, reaching a total of over 200 schools, 1400 teachers, and indirectly over 40,000 children and their parents, but also lay a strong basis for an eventual contribution on a large scale by CAFT to Education for All in collaboration with the Anis Zunuzi School and its satellites.

Needs

Production of teacher training materials and training sessions $31,580

Accelerated learning material, design, development and training $21,940

Through the support of our generous contributors, Mona Foundation has been able to provide the following support to CAFT during 2009: $25,000 for the production of teacher training materials and $25,000 for the development of accelerated learning materials.

How You Can Help

Please contact us or send your tax-deductible contributions to:

Mona Foundation
218 Main Street, Suite 404
Kirkland, WA 98033
(425) 743-4550
Email: monafoundation@monafoundation.org
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