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 Asra Hawariat
Education
In the 2007-8 academic year there were 1973 children (731 boys and 891 girls) attending the
school - nearly all of them too poor to pay the small registration fee (‘cost sharing’) for
a government school.
The school has always been rated as excellent by Ministry of Education inspectors and others.
Most years we achieve a 100% pass-rate in the Grade 8 National exams The reasons for this are
a conducive educational environment which enhances the teaching and learning process, strong
administrative follow up and support, interested teachers, relatively small class size and
financial and material assistance for needy students.
In addition we run a kindergarten for 260 children in another part of
the city, a slum area known locally as Rebakantu - the place
where people cry and nobody hears them. We also work with the (mostly
young, single) mothers, offering parenting classes, and a simple credit
union, which has proved a great success. | 
