Welcome
The Education Sub-Saharan Africa (ESSA) is an independent, non-profit, and non-governmental organization (NGO) operating in Sub-Saharan region of Africa.
The introduction of Health, Peace and Environmental education
{HIV & Aids, How its Spread and how it can be Prevented, Adolescence, Drugs & Substance
Abuse, Tuberculoses, Malaria, Life Skill, Testing, Care & Support, Peace Education, Road Safety,
Fire Safety & Disasters Management, Water Management, Environmental Conservation/Management,
(Green Belt), Counselling & Guidance} in schools in Sub-Saharan region of Africa presents
a milestone in the education.
However, Teachers in schools and Community Educators are not providing enough information about
these issues. Some of the major reasons are inadequate information due to lack of adequate
education materials on the same. As a result diseases like HIV prevalence in countries like Kenya
has rose from 5.1% to 13.2% among 15 to 24 years in the last 2 years. This is according to
the current Kenya Aids Indicator Survey and is quite arming.
As an intervention to these challenges, Education Sub-Saharan Africa was established through a support from Norway, the local governments and experts in Information, Education and Communication (IEC). Through the same partnership relevant (IEC) materials and programmes for schools were developed to bridge the missing links. More emphasis are placed on developing education materials and evaluating methods and systems that are appropriate, relevant, affordable and effective then using this knowledge to influence others to bring about change in attitude and understanding.
Education Sub-Saharan Africa (ESSA) refers to the donor or lender practice of providing direct budgetary support to finance production and distribution of education materials in exchange for their good will in creating conducive learning environment.
It is stated that all programmes should ideally include improving health and peace, environmental conservation/management education and empowerment (capacity building), evidence gathering, documentation, dissemination and best practices and lessons learned to change and obtain support for specific policies, programmes, legislation, issues or causes for teachers in schools and their peoples.
In with our mission: to improve the health, peace and environmental conservation/management knowledge and understanding of all people in Sub-Saharan Africa as a means for them to escape diseases, poverty and improve the quality of their lives, it has become imperative to strengthen our operations research component further to ensure that we make true our commitments.
