Edukans
Netherlands
| Children/Education
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Edukans is a development organisation with a unique focus on basic education. Every child is entitled to have access to good quality basic education. Yet, world-wide, 80 million children do not attend school. For Edukans this is an unacceptable situation. Action has to be taken. Every child should have the opportunity to get relevant education. Edukans facilitates this in close cooperation with local partner organisations in developing countries. Edukans also recruits students in the Netherlands to take part in development work. These students gain more in-depth knowledge about the lives of their peers in developing countries and about longer-lasting, sustainable developments both in the Netherlands and the South. Basic principles and values for this so-called ‘global education’ are: ‘sharing’ and ‘living together’. This process starts in one’s own environment, but it also outreaches it: taking a stand for children in developing countries.
