Give the gift of education

We aim to improve the lives of extremely poor and vulnerable children in a sustainable way by increasing access to quality primary education and supporting child wellbeing. In 2024, Concern reached almost 700,000 people across nine countries through our education programmes.

Logicalis’ parent company, Datatec Group, have been a partner of Concern Worldwide since 2022, supporting Concern to promote access to and uptake of STEM subjects in Junior Secondary Schools in marginalised communities across Marsabit County, Kenya. Datatec Group are committed to improving lives by supporting children in continuing their education in some of the world’s most vulnerable communities. Funding from Datatec has enabled Concern to reach 16 schools across Marsabit with mobile science labs, science kits, training in STEM for teachers, strengthened boards of governance and provided students with access to regional and national science fairs.

Logicalis employees are encouraged to contribute to Concern's global education projects in a personal capacity using this platform and to share the appeal with their family and friends. All personal donations made to this education appeal will be matched by Logicalis. 

Your donation today can ensure that children can access a quality education.  

In 2023 and 2024, hundreds of Logicalis employees demonstrated their incredible generosity by signing up to the annual Logicalis Global Wellness Challenge and donating to Concern’s vital education programming. The three previous challenges have raised over €80,000, which has contributed to emergency funding in Ukraine and Concern's education programmes worldwide. Below are some examples of where this income could have contributed to impact in our education programmes.

We supported 17 schools in the rural district of Goz Beida, raising school attendance rates from 47% in 2023 to 65% in 2024 through community outreach campaigns which reached 12,390 people. To help reduce the financial burden on parents and encourage them to send their children to school, we offered free school enrolment and provided more than 2,600 children with school kits. 

We also supported the Provincial Education Delegation by recruiting and retaining 42 teachers through a monthly stipend of 75,000 CFA (€114) over nine months. Continuous teacher training for 97 teachers on methods of teaching, multi-grade class management and specific curriculum topics improved educational outcomes as shown by an increase in EGRA (Early Grade Reading Assessment) from 0% to 7%.

‘Learning Together’, our education project in the Tillabery and Tahoua regions of Niger, aims to ensure that children affected by the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the country receive an education. It reached over 75,000 students across 250 schools in 2024. As well as supplying children with textbooks and recreational kits, activities included building and rehabilitating more than 80 classrooms in 29 schools to increase their capacity to accept newly displaced and refugee children. 

We worked with teachers and educational supervisors to develop a safe and inclusive learning environment, and with the wider community to promote the importance of enrolling and keeping their children in school. In areas where schools were closed due to regional insecurity, our distance learning project ensured that children still received an education by taking part in interactive audio lessons. Eighty-two listening clubs have now been set up with more than 2,000 students gathering to listen to the lessons and complete schoolwork under the supervision of a facilitator from the community. 

Despite the ongoing crisis in Northeast Syria, Concern has significantly improved access to education for out-of-school children, implementing a Non-Formal Education (NFE) programme in 12 locations which reached over 14,700 people. Projects include an Accelerated Learning programme for out-of-school 8–13 year-olds which provides them with the basic literacy and numeracy skills to allow them to join classes, and a similar one for adolescents. Over 2,100 students took part in these programmes. 

A further 1,110 students were enrolled on our Homework Support programme which helps children at risk of dropping out. The programme recorded some notable successes in 2024: we achieved the highest transition rates of out-of-school children to either formal education or further nonformal education interventions, or progression to the next academic year for remedial classes (Homework Support). Overall, 90.3% of children enrolled in our NFE services successfully transitioned to one of these pathways. In addition, learning outcomes reached a new peak with the highest achievement recorded for both the Early Grade Reading Assessment Global Benchmark and the Numeracy Benchmark in the past four years.