Goals of Ripple Effect Program
Overall Goals of the Ripple Effect program |
The Scholarship Program is an adjunct to the Canadian Ripple Effect Program itself; the goals of which can be stated as follows:
The eradication of poverty through the support of education in rural Guatemala has also been the fundamental reason for the Rotary’s Ripple Effect Program (REP) in that country. Just as the UN has advocated, the REP has also focused on primary education and on the encouragement of girls to obtain an education to further the advancement of women.
A key fundamental of the REP has been collaboration in an action-oriented way to adapt to the specific educational needs of individual communities in rural Guatemala.
The UN has put forward that: “Sustainable development strategies of developing countries will continue to give priority to human development, with the eradication of poverty as its central goal.
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