Norway Grants Save the Children $2.3 Million for Education in Conflict Areas

allAfrica.com: PanAfrica: Africa: Norway Grants Save the Children $2.3 Million for Education in Conflict Areas:

The Norwegian government granted 15 million kroner (US $2.3 million) to international NGO Save the Children to help it implement a 2005-2009 education project in 25 countries around the world, four of them in Africa, an official of the charity said on Monday.

The chair of the International Save the Children Alliance 's Global Challenge Project, Tove Wang, told IRIN from Oslo that in Africa, the first phase of the project would be implemented in Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan and Uganda, all adversely affected or recovering from armed conflict.

The project, which is yet to specify the budgets and needs for each country, would include the construction or rehabilitation of schools, teacher training facilities, provision of school materials, supplies and the enhancement of the quality of school curricula.