Building climate-smart schools for a sustainable future.


Resilience in a changing environment.

Initiative – Climate-Smart Schools scroll down

About This Initiative

Equipping schools with green infrastructure so they can build climate-resilient communities.

So They Can is establishing climate-smart schools in East Africa that empower climate-resilient communities.
 
Preventing the forced migration of marginalised communities due to climate change, ensures the continued delivery of quality education for improved learning outcomes among children living in poverty.
 
Working through national education systems our multi-pronged approach includes: climate smart agriculture for food security via school farms and local farmers’ networks; sustainable clean water supplies via boreholes; solar powered energy solutions through large and portable panels; tree-planting for soil erosion control; support of livelihoods that protect and sustain the natural environment; and community sensitisation on the causes, impact and prevention of climate change.
 
Climate-smart schools protect access to education, and enable improved learning outcomes through improved infrastructure and learning and teaching conditions.
 
In the communities where we work, women and girls face disproportionate challenges — and climate change is set to further impede progress towards gender equality.
 
Our programs strategically focus on the education and empowerment of girls, and their mothers, as a combative measure. Across 26 program-supported schools in Babati Tanzania, girls’ transition from primary to secondary school increased by 5% from 2020 to 2021 which can be attributed to this project through: reduced absenteeism due to the availability of WASH facilities at schools; elimination of the need to travel long distances for water collection; improved nutrition through school feeding programs supplied by school farms.

About These Projects Equipping schools with green infrastructure so they can build climate-resilient communities.

So They Can is establishing climate-smart schools in East Africa that empower climate-resilient communities.
 
Preventing the forced migration of marginalised communities due to climate change, ensures the continued delivery of quality education for improved learning outcomes among children living in poverty.
 
Working through national education systems our multi-pronged approach includes: climate smart agriculture for food security via school farms and local farmers’ networks; sustainable clean water supplies via boreholes; solar powered energy solutions through large and portable panels; tree-planting for soil erosion control; support of livelihoods that protect and sustain the natural environment; and community sensitisation on the causes, impact and prevention of climate change.
 
Climate-smart schools protect access to education, and enable improved learning outcomes through improved infrastructure and learning and teaching conditions.
 
In the communities where we work, women and girls face disproportionate challenges — and climate change is set to further impede progress towards gender equality.
 
Our programs strategically focus on the education and empowerment of girls, and their mothers, as a combative measure. Across 26 program-supported schools in Babati Tanzania, girls’ transition from primary to secondary school increased by 5% from 2020 to 2021 which can be attributed to this project through: reduced absenteeism due to the availability of WASH facilities at schools; elimination of the need to travel long distances for water collection; improved nutrition through school feeding programs supplied by school farms.
 
Tanzania_HR-48

The Impact Climate resilience at Sora Primary School.

One school that has benefitted from our climate-smart strategy is Sora Primary School, a remote school community located in Babati District, Tanzania.

This school is totally cut off from the grid, resulting in very poor hygiene with no running water for basic health and sanitation needs.

Before installing our climate-smart solution, students had to bring water to school, or walk — sometimes hours — to collect it from the nearest source. Implementing a School Feeding Program was also impossible, meaning students would have to go home for lunch, often resulting in low attendance rates, or students dropping out of school completely. 

With support from our global donors, in 2022 So They Can was able to drill a borehole and install a solar pump solution (due to the lack of electricity at the school). This solution now provides the school's students and their community with a safe and sustainable supply of drinking water 365 days a year.

Today the school is able to implement a reliable School Feeding Program.

 
IMG_2001

The Impact

Climate resilience at Sora Primary School.

One school that has benefitted from our climate-smart strategy is Sora Primary School, a remote school community located in Babati District, Tanzania.

This school is totally cut off from the grid, resulting in very poor hygiene with no running water for basic health and sanitation needs.

Before installing our climate-smart solution, students had to bring water to school, or walk — sometimes hours — to collect it from the nearest source. Implementing a School Feeding Program was also impossible, meaning students would have to go home for lunch, often resulting in low attendance rates, or students dropping out of school completely. 

With support from our global donors, in 2022 So They Can was able to drill a borehole and install a solar pump solution (due to the lack of electricity at the school). This solution now provides the school's students and their community with a safe and sustainable supply of drinking water 365 days a year.

Today the school is able to implement a reliable School Feeding Program.

IMG_2001
IMG_2002
donate