"Education for Everyone” is a social responsibility platform created by young people from different cities of Turkey, who voluntarily came together to contibute to the educational needs of school-age children who do not have equality in accessing to knowledge for various reasons."

The pilot proved that providing a basic education and vocational training pathway for children who have never been to school is feasible. It offers an important avenue for children who are driven by poverty to take up income-generating roles to fend for themselves and their families.

In Ethiopia, 132 learners (55 male, 77 female) registered for the program, while 106 learners (41 male, 65 female) completed their course. Children and youth who had been trained revealed that they found the learning useful, and the skills relevant.

Government officials in Ethiopia were keen on scaling the vocational training pathway, though they pointed out that the model needed to be refined. To achieve this goal, government officials met with the Wolaitta Development Association to discuss how to create pathways to employment for young people who received short-term vocational training through the Back2school project.

One of the partner organizations involved in the piloting and testing, the Luminos Fund, is adopting a vocational pathway in their accelerated learning programming for out-of-school children.