World Education - ConnectEd Programme
World Education is working in partnership with the Alcatel-Lucent Foundation to implement the ConnectEd program to address factors limiting the work and life options of disadvantaged youth, with an emphasis on girls and women.
- Affiliation
- NGO
- Date of Establishment
- 2010
- Contact No.
- 617.482.9485
- Address
Esther Whang,Youth Programs Coordinator World Education, Inc. 44 Farnsworth Street Boston, MA
- Email Address
- wei@worlded.org
- Website
- http://www.worlded.org/WEIInternet/projects/ListProjects.cfm?Select=Country&ID=38&ProjectStatus=All
1. Source of funding
World Education
2. Mission and Objectives
Helping the most disadvantaged youth achieve better learning outcomes, have skills that will make them better prepared for the world of work, and, to be more active in their communities.
1. giving disadvantaged youth a better chance to cross the opportunities gap and accessing more and better employment options
2. focusing on the use of technology to transform the learning, work and life outcomes of youth
3. Areas of work relating to youth employment
Skills for youth, gender, school-to-work transition
4. Partners and areas of partnerships
Alcatel-Lucent Foundation
5. Potential or existing partnership with the ILO
6. Successful youth employment interventions
scholarships, coaching, life skills and personal development courses, school re-entry classes, non-formal education programs for out-of-school youth, job skills training, work placement, and 'youth civic voice' actions