EREP's mission is to provide opportunities for basic literacy and numeracy to children and adults in Western Wollega, Ethiopia.
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- To establish one-room schools in villages currently without schools
- To apply the standard curriculum used in the Oromia Region to the multi-grade/multi-level activity-based learning modality developed by the Rishi Valley Institute for Educational Research (RIVER) in India
- To teach kindergarten through the first four years (K-4) of the Oromia curriculum to children and interested adults
- To provide a gender equitable educational opportunity to the children of the villages
- To provide an inclusive educational opportunity to the children and adults of the villages regardless of religion or ethnicity
- To encourage women of the villages to study the curriculum
- To establish school gardens that will serve as environmental learning laboratories for the school children and the villages
- To encourage land reclamation by the villagers on a continuing basis
- To encourage and assist existing schools to adopt the EREP curriculum and methodology
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