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A quality early years education is essential to ensure every child reaches their full potential. Providing training to kindergarten teachers in Ghana is the highest priority. Sabre's teacher training will enable hundreds of teachers to give thousands of children the best start to their education.

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    Situation

    Despite policy reforms making kindergarten education a compulsory part of primary education in Ghana, the sector is woefully underfunded. 48.4% of teachers have had no formal training, 25% of school aged children are not enrolled and classroom resources are inappropriate and scarce, with one workbook for every three children in school. Research shows improvements at this age deliver a greater rate of return then investments at any other stage in the education system 17:1 (The Lancet, 2010).

    Solution

    Building on our successful pilot, this programme will deliver the second year of a two year transformational teacher training programme. In partnership with the Ghana Education Service and a local teacher training college, 53 practising KG teachers and

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