The Emily Sandall Foundation is very proud to donate to the PAVE methodology training being done in Jordan this winter. The training will be with Questscope staff and with staff from 20+ CBOs (community based organizations) from around Jordan. Questscope helps youth who have dropped out of school to achieve the equivalency of a 10th grade education so that they can reenter into public school. Diane Mull ,Executive Director of the International Initiative to End Child Labor and the developer of the PAVE method, will be working with them to integrate PAVE into their methods.
Diane had originally hoped to train Emily in this method and have her travel with her to implement it.
PAVE stands for “Pathways Advancing Viable Education/Employment.”
The PAVE approach is designed to equip staff to work with children to identify and make appropriate interventions to ensure that children enroll, persist and complete education and/or skills training, and do not enter or re-enter child labor or exploitive labor situations. It also enables staff to identify those children most at-risk and their family’s circumstances that contribute to this. The methods used help staff to identify those services appropriate to prevent children from not entering school or dropping out of school and entering child labor. It also affords staff an early opportunity to consider alternative educational strategies for children who are not progressing well in formal school.
Ms. Mull has trained thousands of staff across the US and abroad on using different aspects of the PAVE approach based on the organization’s needs and the goals planned for the targeted beneficiaries. Ms. Mull, working under contract with the Academy for Educational Development, provided technical assistance using the PAVE methodology to World Vision and International Rescue Committee staff in four East African and two West African countries with the program objective of recruiting, educating and preventing child labor.
For more information re: PAVE, visit the IIECL web-site: http://www.endchildlabor.org/
“You just don’t know how much I would have loved to have trained Emily on PAVE and had her helping me spread the word. I’m sure that she will be with me in spirit while I do my work in the Middle East.
I’ll be thinking of Emily while I provide the PAVE training in Jordan. I’ll mention to the class about Emily and the contribution that you have made to help make the training possible.”
Diane Mull, IIECL
Dec.17,2008
The International Initiative to End Child Labor (IIECL) is an IRS designated private, not-for-profit, 501(c) (3) organization whose purpose is to end the worst forms of child labor (through promoting education and effective program delivery) in the United States and around the world. IIECL was founded in 1998 and incorporated in 1999.
