01Community Mapping & Identification
Mobilizing local community animators and Sector Social Affairs officers to locate out-of-school adolescents.
Bringing adolescents aged 12–17 back into learning — into formal school where possible, and into accelerated and alternative pathways where not.
Join us in connecting out-of-school children with accelerated learning hubs, psychosocial support, and accredited pathways back into mainstream education.
Partner with usCreating second chances through accelerated, community-embedded learning hubs.
Over 45,000 children and adolescents across targeted districts have either dropped out of primary school or never enrolled due to extreme economic vulnerability, disability, or familial disruption.
The Out-of-School Children and Youth Programme operates mobile identification teams alongside local Sector Social Affairs officers to locate out-of-school youth and enroll them into 9-month accelerated learning curricula.
Our out-of-school framework combines grassroots community animators with accelerated learning curricula, ensuring that youth who dropped out due to poverty, disability, or domestic disruption receive a supportive pathway back to accredited learning.
Explore Our Focus AreasBy compressing lower-primary literacy and numeracy into intensive modules and addressing household financial barriers, over 88% of enrolled students successfully reintegrate into mainstream primary and secondary schools.
Out-of-school children identified and tracked
Community accelerated learning centers established
Successful mainstream school re-enrollment rate
Community animators and volunteer tutors mobilized
School kits and dignity packages distributed
Target districts implementing localized re-entry compacts
How communities and partners identify out-of-school children and support their return to learning.
Follow classroom teachers and school mentors as they implement structured daily routines and observe how targeted interventions drive tangible learner confidence.
Read the stories“When my parents could no longer afford school uniforms, I thought my education was finished. The community learning center gave me another chance, and now I am back in P5 at the top of my class.”
“When my parents could no longer afford school uniforms, I thought my education was finished. The community learning center gave me another chance, and now I am back in P5 at the top of my class.” — Clarisse Uwase
01Mobilizing local community animators and Sector Social Affairs officers to locate out-of-school adolescents.
02Condensed, high-intensity foundational literacy and numeracy curricula that compress lower primary into 9 months.
03Providing school kits, fee mitigation, and psychosocial transition counseling to re-enroll youth back into mainstream classes.
04Connecting older youth who cannot re-enter formal school with practical trade apprenticeships and digital literacy.
Active
Timeline
2024–2030
18,500
Adolescents identified as out of school
11,200
Enrolled in a learning pathway
120
Accelerated learning centres
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policy briefPlaceholder abstract. Policy brief: costing catch-up education at scale. This document sets out findings, methods and recommendations from LIFT's work in Rwanda...
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We partner with Village Executive Committees, Sector Social Affairs Officers, and community animators who carry out household surveys to identify children who have been absent for over three consecutive months.
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