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ALLIANCE FOR SUSTAINABLE QUALITY EDUCATION

ALSQUE (Alliance for Sustainable Quality Education) is a co-operation of 3 small schools from the Tamale district and CID-Ghana. The main goals of this alliance are to optimize the use of resources, to share experiences, resources and ideas, and to work on new ways in which member organizations can cooperate. All members of the alliance have signed charters about abuse, good governance, nourishment, hygiene and non-discrimination. In this initiative CID-Ghana is not the funding organization but rather a facilitator. Every two weeks the three directors of the schools and the project coordinator of CID-Ghana sit together and discuss various items. For 2007, they intend starting various projects to improve the quality of the education given in their schools.

The 3 schools

Because of the expensive school fees parents have to pay to send their children to a public or private school, a lot of children remain excluded from formal education. That’s why people with good intentions try to start their own school. Because these schools are private, but not profit making, they call themselves development schools. Since a large part of the population of the northern part of Ghana is poor, the schools are urged to keep the school fees very low. Teachers are working in the schools on voluntary base and for further development directors have to count on funds from outside. All the schools have a good relationship with the teachers and active Parent Teacher Associations.



TIZAA Early Childhood Development Centre is a small school situated in the village Junjori Kukuo, 10km north of Tamale. The school has about 80 pupils, divided into three classes. The school doesn’t have money to build their own infrastructure and the small classrooms are located in a compound, which is property of the director’s family.

Future Administrators Academy is the biggest school of the alliance, lying at the outskirts of Tamale. The school has about 250 pupils, divided into five classes. These five classrooms are located in a building with a size less than 200 square meters and are separated from each other by plastic curtains.

Vineyard Complex Academy, nearby the CID-Ghana Office has about 120 pupils, divided into 4 classes. Recently the school was urged by the land owner to move from their old location to the other side of the road in some wooden barracks. They are now searching for funds to get their own land to build on.