Project · Support for young people
A significant share of contributions goes towards sending the children of Ebando's extended family to school. Classes, books, notebooks, a daily taxi, a midday snack. Without this help, several school paths would not hold up.
An ongoing commitment
Support for schooling has been an ongoing commitment of Ebando's from the very start. Three children directly tied to the association's family, from the first to the last year of primary school, are supported across their whole schooling. The support covers the everyday school costs (classes, books, notebooks), the daily taxi ride, and a midday snack. The aim: that no absence is ever forced by a lack of means.
Beyond these three priority children, the association also supports several young people from Ebando in their vocational training, a fashion-design school, a Catholic dressmaking school, the Kenco training centre, sometimes directly, sometimes through adoptive parents and friends of Ebando abroad.
Day to day
So that no one stays home for want of a taxi.
Schooling is not only enrolment fees. It is the taxi that brings you to the classroom every morning, the midday snack that gets you through the afternoon, the notebooks and the books on the syllabus.
In Gabon, the cumulative cost of these details often decides whether a child is present or absent. Ebando takes on the whole chain, so that regular attendance never hinges on an unexpected cash-flow gap.
A good deed is never lost.
— Ebando, programme document
Beyond primary school
Vocational training.
Several young people from Ebando have followed vocational training courses with the direct or indirect support of the association.
Fashion design · Paris
A course at a fashion-design school, funded by a couple of adoptive parents.Dressmaking · CPA Sainte-Marie
Catholic dressmaking school, first year, funded by a supporter.Dressmaking · Kenco Centre
Training centre, first year, funded by a supporter.
Faces of the schooling project
Bursaries that carry a name.
Among the young people supported over the years, some paths are tied to a dedicated bursary. The portraits below come from Ebando's archives and accompany their schooling, with no story other than that of their belonging to the project.
To support is to commit
Support a child's schooling.
To support the schooling of an Ebando child specifically, write to the association. A bursary can be dedicated and followed.