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Overview

The CAIRN Trust's mission is to develop and support sustainable rural village communities through child education.

Our mission supports the Education For All campaign (EFA), which is a global commitment by international leaders to provide quality basic education to all children, youth and adults. Click here to read more about the EFA campaign.

The CAIRN Trust delivers projects that are low cost, appropriate to the financial and geographical conditions and within the capacity of the benefitting community to operate and maintain. To ensure that communities are responsible and feel a sense of ownership for the projects, we involve them in as many stages of the work as possible. We strive to ensure that communities can sustain the projects after The CAIRN Trust ends it support.

Goals

• Improve rural community’s educational infrastructures
• Improve rural children’s access to an education
• Improve rural school attendance
• Increase rural literacy rates
• Enable vulnerable children to remain and be cared for in their rural communities

Core Projects

The three core projects that will help deliver our goals:

• CAIRN Schools & Libraries: building schools, libraries and other educational buildings in partnership with village communities.
• CAIRN Educational Awards: providing the essential educational support for a child to go to school including school fees, stationery, uniforms and tutoring.
• CAIRN Communities: identifying and supporting children within our communities who require additional assistance e.g. emergency food support.

Our Partners

We have partnered with two local Non-Government Organisations (NGO's) to help deliver our goals:

The Pahar Trust - British Registered Charity No 1028469
Sathi Nepal - USA Registered Charity

We are also linked to UNESCO through the 2015 Literacy Campaign.

Monitoring and Evaluation

Our team conducts regular monitoring and evaluation to ensure that our projects run effectively and efficiently. Through this monitoring, our teams are able to consistently keep improving the projects and ensure that we have the best impact on the children. Click here to read more about our monitoring and evaluation.