Oxfam America Supports OLE into 2010
Oxfam America has extended its financial support for OLE into 2010. As an international relief and development organization, Oxfam America describes its mission as “creating lasting solutions to poverty, hunger, and injustice.” Its belief system of empowering people to overcome poverty and injustice, take control of their own lives, and build a just and safer world is shared by the Open Learning Exchange.
OLE’s Quality Universal Basic Education (QUBE) strategy aims to ensure that every child gets an opportunity to develop an intellectually and economically strong life. As such, it defines basic education as enabling one to:
- Read local newspapers, magazines and books
- Complete job applications and obtain employment
- Write letters to friends and employers
- Manipulate numbers and keep accurate financial records
- Engage in productive work
- Improve agricultural, nutritional, health and environmental practices,
- Participate in art, music and culture
- Promote cooperation and manage conflict effectively
- Contribute meaningfully to one’s family, community and nation
- Understand the rights and responsibilities of every human being
“Oxfam America has been a founding supporter of OLE, and we could not be more gratified that it continues with us in 2010 to advance our shared goals,” said OLE International CEO Richard Rowe.
ABOUT OLE
The Open Learning Exchange (www.ole.org) is a global network that helps connect and equip social entrepreneurs in OLE Centers around the world, enabling them to demonstrate educational innovations, document their effectiveness, and work with governments to scale them to reach all children. It is a US social benefit organization, based in Boston, Massachusetts.
