education

illiteracy
Helping adults who have difficulty with their basic skills
9% of the 18 to 65 year olds living in Metropolitan France and that have been to school in France are illiterate (INSEE/ANLCI 2006).
Without the basic skills of reading, writing, counting, getting your bearings in terms of time and space, developing logical reasoning abilities etc.people suffer difficulties with social and professional integration. They also sometimes need to overcome various obstacles in order to act independently in day-to-day activities.
 Being familiarised with writing promotes better communication and facilitates integration for people within the community.


Reaching adults with writing difficulties and providing them with more effective support to facilitate their access to basic skills, is what the Orange Foundation has been working for since 2005.

The Orange Foundation has chosen to support a range of projects making it possible to:

- Reach the adults in most difficulty, notably encouraging actions that facilitate local support
- Promote actions that develop people's confidence in themselves and help them to train themselves: social and cultural activities such as theatre and writing workshops are offered alongside formal training programs,
- Develop the skills of the volunteer support teams
- Promoting access to suitable training tools.

Actions developed to support children or within a school framework (“illiteracy prevention”, “school support”,) and formal training programs implemented under public policies, are not supported.



educating young girls in developing countries
More than 120 million children around the world are deprived of the right to education, and more than half of them are girls. There is a clear link between the generalisation of basic education and economic development. The impact is even more beneficial in the case of educating young girls. In developing countries, girls must in general overcome greater obstacles than boys to go to school and complete their schooling. Educating young girls represents a positive factor not only in terms of health, but also in the development of their community, such as improvements in family health, notably with regard to prevention measures and nutrition, development of general conditions for welcoming children in school, better education for the following generations.


The Orange Foundation is supporting various associations' projects to specifically promote schooling and keep girls in school:

- Setting up programs to raise awareness in local communities
- Developing preschool programs, preparing girls for the pace of school rather than the pace of housework in the family, and adapting school times for young girls
- Developing schools in rural areas and developing mobile schools
- Training teachers
- Setting up programs to guarantee the girls’ safety (journeys to and from school, accommodation in schools, etc.)
- Developing sanitation facilities in schools