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In Zambia for example, advantaged\u00a0 students are 14 times more likely to obtain base level math proficiency than disadvantaged\u00a0 students.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PEAS (Promoting Equality in African Schools) specializes in providing education for the most\u00a0 marginalized children in Uganda and Zambia by building schools in underserved\u00a0 communities, supporting and supervising them to ensure they deliver transformational\u00a0 education for all students. PEAS schools draw staff from the local community and work with\u00a0 them so they become drivers of change. The schools are also designed to be financially self sustainable as well as offering students low fees.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a COVID-19 world, PEAS responded quickly to ensure children won\u2019t stop learning, even\u00a0 from home in lockdown, by providing learning material via radio, mobile phones and home learning packs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PEAS started in 2008 with 200 students in one school in Uganda, and has grown to 14,700\u00a0 students in 32 schools in Uganda and Zambia today. Without PEAS schools, many Sub Saharan children would be unlikely to get a secondary education.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Jacobs Foundation Board of Trustees recognizes PEAS\u2019 exceptional efforts to drive educational quality through efficient school management and to operate low-cost secondary schools for the most marginalized students in Uganda and Zambia; the Board especially considered PEAS\u2019 response to COVID-19 related challenges.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jacobsfoundation.org\/en\/interview-laura-brown-ceo-peas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Interview with Laura Brown, CEO PEAS <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jacobsfoundation.org\/en\/10-questions-with-laura-brown-ceo-of-peas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">10 Questions with Laura Brown<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jacobs Foundation Board recognizes PEAS for their exceptional efforts to drive educational quality through efficient school management and to operate low-cost secondary schools for the most marginalized students in Uganda and Zambia, and especially for their response to COVID-19 related challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":23178,"parent":4479,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-awards-prize.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-23140","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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