About Us.
Goal:
QUEST overall goal was to improve the performance of children in primary schools
in Africa, paying specific attention to barriers facing girls. It focused on the learning,
practice, and mastery of literacy and information on growing up and sexual maturation at primary school by poor children in rural areas.
did you know that! more than 140 million youth are illiterate in Africa and 60 percent of children in Africa
who attend school fail to master literacy?
QUEST had a dual geographic focus. At the continental level, support was provided to the
UNESCO
sponsored Association for the Development of Education in Africa -ADEA - as well
as to the Forum for African Women Educationalists - FAWE. This continental work was
complimented by a focus on three countries - Kenya, Uganda and Zimbabwe -
so as to address literacy and sexual maturation with deeper on-the-ground experimentation
and demonstration. Support was also provided to the FAWE Ghana,
the FAWE Uganda chapter, the Kenya FAWE chapter and the FAWE Zimbabwe chapter to disseminate
the results of work on Sexual Maturation. Click to learn more about where QUEST had
funded projects, and the institutions which it supported.