Children in Schools
By giving children the opportunity to realise their full potential and improve their life chances, education can provide a lasting solution to poverty and disadvantage.
However, in the UK, the links between economic disadvantage and educational underachievement are strong and stubborn. Consequently, Sofronie’s work focuses on providing vulnerable and disadvantaged children with educational support. We fund evidence-based projects that build children’s confidence, raise their aspirations and increase their academic achievement.
Abroad, Sofronie funds educational programmes in Sub-Saharan Africa and Cambodia. Here, we often need to provide more than educational support alone. Yet our principles remain the same: to identify a specific need – such as street children, or those living in rural areas – and then fund programmes that will help these children to acquire the education they need; one that will have a lasting impact upon their lives.
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- Camfed – supporting female education and entrepreneurship in Malawi
- Connected Schools – teaching children in rural Cambodia via wireless networks
- Kenyan Orphan Project (K.O.P.) – essential help for vulnerable children in south west Kenya
- The Royal Wanstead Children's Foundation – boarding school for children with difficult home circumstances
- SHINE – Saturday classes for disadvantaged primary school children
- Springboard – literacy tuition for struggling inner city primary children
- IntoUniversity - Academic and pastoral support to help disadvantaged children go to university
- Run4Schools - Sports programmes providing an alternative to crime for South African children