UNICEF Laos Community Based School Readiness
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Community Based School Readiness (CBSR) programmes in Lao PDR are helping to prepare children in remote, hard-to-reach villages for primary school. Find out how a recent visit by UNICEF uncovered a story about how the programme helps a deaf girl pick up the skills for school, how non-Lao speaking children learn the national language, and how they benefit their communities.
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- 1. Community Based School Readiness Luang Nam Tha Province October 2013
- 2. Reaching the most disadvantaged children UNICEF Lao PDR visited three hard-to-reach Akhaspeaking villages. The community-based school readiness (CBSR) project gives villages the tools to prepare their children for school.
- 3. Nam Det Som Boun village The programme provides villages with the support and materials to educate 4 & 5 year olds. The village teachers, like Pheomeo here, are nominated by their community trained by district education bureau and sport.
- 4. Pheomeo, 17, on her pre-school students starting primary school "I was very proud and happy. When my children started there I went to watch them. I saw they knew how to sing the Lao songs, and I saw how much more confident they were than the other children who hadn't come to my class."
- 5. New skills "Before this project started last year, most Grade 1 children didn't know how to speak or read Lao, and didn't know how to use a pen," said the local head chief, Mr La.
- 6. Inclusive Saphieu, 5 years old, is one of 12 students in Nam Det Som Boun village. She is hearing impaired and her teacher has to pay special attention to her.
- 7. Teacher Pheomeo: "I have to make sure she sees everything, and often I write things down for her. But she is very smart and picks everything up very quickly. Often, when I demonstrate something on the board for the children to repeat, I turn around and she's already completed it."
- 8. Activities The facilitator guide focuses on a host of different activities, such as counting, Lao language, creativity…
- 10. Activities …and out-door physical activities and cognitive development, among others.
- 11. Facilities Some village preschools lack basic WASH facilities and suitable learning environment spaces.
- 12. Access One of the biggest challenges is access to many of the remote villages.
- 13. Access On this trip there was a 1 hour 45 minute walk to one village (after a 2 hour drive). During the rainy season it can take up to 3 hours in 4x4 to cover just 25km.
- 14. Access Chanpheng is responsible for supporting villages in the Long District. She regularly travels by motorbike through treacherous conditions. She was praised by the local Chief of Cabinet for never giving up: "If she falls off her bike, she just gets straight back up and keeps going."
- 15. CBSR Without the backing from UNICEF and people like Chanpheng, many Lao children would have no education before entering primary school.
- 16. How many went to CBSR? 11 out of 13 students in a local primary school attended a CBSR programme.
- 18. © United Nations Children’s Fund November 2013