The Luminos Fund (USA / the Gambia)
The Luminos Fund was founded to ensure children everywhere get a chance to experience joyful learning, especially those denied an education by crisis, poverty, and conflict. Their vision is of a world where no child is denied the opportunity to learn.
Luminos is one of the few international education organisations with a proven accelerated learning model and a track record of helping the most marginalised children learn and catch up to grade level. Their rigorous and engaging catch-up education programme targets children who have never attended school, or have dropped out before acquiring basic competencies, and teaches them foundational literacy and numeracy skills. In just one school year, the Luminos programme covers three years of education, helping children to learn how to learn, through an activity-based curriculum. To date, Luminos has served over 172,000 out-of-school children.
In 2021, the Gambia’s Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education (MoBSE) approached Luminos for technical support to reach the Gambia’s roughly 70,000 primary-school-aged children who are out of school.
Luminos has developed a fit-for-purpose accelerated learning curriculum to enable out-of-school children aged 8-14 in the Gambia to get a second chance at education. The results of this pilot project will guide Luminos in contextualising and adapting the framework of their education programme before scaling up nationally.
In 2022/2023, support from the Eurofins Foundation will help Luminos and the MoBSE to reach 600 vulnerable children in remote communities during the project’s pilot year, providing teaching and learning materials, and training new teachers on their dedicated curriculum.
This project contributes to the following United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals
