KENYA , UGANDA, RWANDA, ETHIOPIA, TOGETHER

Child labor is perpetuated, generation-after-generation in Sub-Saharan African countries due to a number of factors that include uneven access to education, poor quality of education, poverty, a lack of commitment to girls’ education, paucity of government policies and resources, conflict and displacement, and more recently HIV/AIDS which has strained household incomes and broken the strands in indigenous coping mechanisms and safety nets

The KURET project is a 4-year cooperative agreement between World Vision, International Rescue Committee and the Academy for Educational Development to implement an education initiative in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, and Ethiopia within a regional East African context to sustainably reduce the engagement of children in child labor by improving and increasing their access to high quality, relevant and viable forms of education. KURET is implemented in Kenya and Rwanda by WV exclusively, and in Uganda and Ethiopia by both WV and the IRC, with AED adopting the roles of policy, research, and monitoring and evaluation (M&E). The program’s Regional Office/headquarters is in Kampala, Uganda .