We are an inclusive school where every child and adult can benefit from the same services whenever possible, regardless of their limitations. We espouse the philosophy which says that disability is not inability.
Disability inclusion cuts across all our programming. In this regards our education programming adheres to Rwanda’s Policy of Disability Inclusion in Education. As such, our preschool, kindergarten and primary school programs are inclusive.
Central to our programming is a Gender transformative approach. We will integrate the gender transformative approach to programming, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, at the individual and systemic level, and across informal and formal spheres of life.
As such, we will challenge unequal gender and power relations and promote equality. We will empower program participants to make and promote critical and personal reflection about gender roles, norms, and inequalities; promote positive, more equitable behaviors and norms; and, where possible, aim to transform the underlying norms, structures, and policies that sustain inequality. To address violence against women and girls, we will challenge negative socially constructed roles and expectations of women and girls, boys and men, in schools, families, and community settings in all our programming.
Sustainable development must take into consideration sustainable environmental and climate change management. The sustainable development goals, various international environment and climate change management instruments as well as national polices at home all subscribe to this outlook.
The caveat is clear that we all bear responsibility to preserve and protect our environment and climate from degradation, from individual to institutions, countries to communities of nation and humanity as a whole. We will together and/ or individually work play a role of community consciousness and advocacy to push for policy reform and/ or enforcement where such policies exist, design and implement programs and projects or strategies on climate change, contribute to public service accountability on their commitments and in ensuring that national policy making does not forget the poor and vulnerable that we serve including vulnerable children, youth and women.
We really care about social change and we are intent on addressing the real issues that affect lives of the people, communities and the nation we serve. We must tackle what is, which is why we must generate evidence to inform responsive child rights and protection policies, policies that affect the health and development of youth, access to quality education, family and community challenges of our time.
Our public policy advocacy programming objective is to inform policy decisions of policy makers and other power holders. In order to persuade policy-makers and power holders to change their policies, laws or implementation you will need evidence and to obtain this, you will have to conduct research.
We conduct research and use it to advocate for public spending on more pressing social and economic wellbeing issues of a specific group, community or the nation as a whole. We bring the issues of public interest at the fore, enhance public knowledge and ensure that they addressed to the appropriate decision makers and power holders. We will challenge methods and practices that act against the public interest, promote appropriate reforms needed, or enforcement of existing ones, but also to inform our own programming and interventions.
This way, we build the capacity, knowledge, understanding and appreciation of the need for the necessary policy reforms among the target audiences, but also create opportunities for policy learning by all stakeholders.
