The ‘Teach a Friend’ project is designed and developed by Friendship to reach those who missed out on the opportunity of primary education and those who we could not accommodate in the schools, under our education programme through peer education in chars. This is due to the fact that a large percentage of the poor children in the char areas still do not have access to basic education.
The aim of the project is to develop a system of non-formal education through which every student will share their daily learning with a friend who is to be registered at the school at the beginning of the year. Every day, they will teach their friends what they have learnt at the school. This way, through peer education in the char, the school-going children will disseminate their learning to their friends who otherwise have no access to education. Successful implementation of the project is expected to nearly double the number of children having access to basic primary education in Friendship’s project areas. Currently this project is a pilot project providing education to about 900 children. This number excludes the total number of students registered in all of our learning centres.