On Thursday September 9 the Education Rights Campaign (ERC)
2015 Annual Free Holiday Coaching came to an end with
a closing ceremony. This was after 6-weeks of intensive teaching,
learning and career talk by a group of volunteer teachers organized by the ERC
to give opportunity to poor working class children who cannot afford the cost
of private coaching.
The Free Coaching started in 2005 and has been held annually
since then. The aim is not just to provide an opportunity to poor students but
also demonstrate, as part of the overall campaign
of the ERC, the possibility of free and quality education especially if
government is committed to it and deploys society's enormous resources towards
it.
This year over 400 secondary
school students participated.
We will like to thank all
supporters of this year's coaching and hope we will continue to have your
support and collaboration to ensure that we are able to organize a bigger and
better one in subsequent years.
Our team of Volunteer Teachers are the heroes
of this project which has been kept alive for a decade now. Young men and
women, they bought into the vision of the ERC and without demanding any
financial reward decided to devote their time every year to keep the coaching
alive. With this crop of young people, we are confident that this generation
can still redeem the society.
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