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Welcome to East Africa Aid Project
 Global Volunteer firms across the globe are trying to make a difference, an effort to alleviate problems the black continent has suffered from the need to improve the basic individual's healthcare service, pre and secondary education, to community development.
Global Volunteer Network, based in New Zealand and with branches over many locations in the world, has a mission statement that tackles these problems and provides relief as well as much needed help.
Through their local NGO's arm in East Africa; Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya & Rwanda, GVN has local representative firms that are involved in several projects that although have started with minimal aid, they leave much to be desired to reach their targeted goals and objectives.
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Education Aid Project
Today, there are still 125 million children who never attend school. Another 150 million children of primary age start school, but drop out before they can read or write. Sixteen countries of East Africa (with almost half of Africa's 6-11 year-olds) have suffered a decline in enrolment rates. Today, East Africa accounts for one-third of the total out-of-school population. On current trends, it will account for three-quarters of the total in 2015.
One in four adults in the developing world – 872 million people – is illiterate, and the numbers are growing.
Global inequalities in the provision of education are enormous. Today, a child can expect to go to school for two to three years, with luck.
Girls account for two-thirds of the children not in school. Despite government commitments to close the gender gap, it is widening in many countries. For example, it has one of the lowest rates of enrolment in the world, and one of the largest gender gaps. Fewer than one-third of 6-11 year old boys and one-tenth of girls are in school. In many schools in the developing world, the treatment of girls is tantamount to a system of apartheid.
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Each year, millions of children and mothers could be saved through improved access to basic health interventions.
Those who most desperately need them - the rural poor - live in remote villages where the cost of reaching them could be five times greater than urban areas.
The organization is a non-profit working reaching out to save lives and improve well-being in developing countries by increasing community access to healthcare and other essential services.
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