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Our Mission
School For All/Ecoles Pour
Tous is a humanitarian organization committed to
recruit, train, and send volunteer educators to places
where the education system has been severely disrupted
by human or natural factors.
It focuses mostly on training primary and secondary
teachers in refugee camps or in displaced people areas.
Our Goals
What Results Do We Seek?
-We strive to respond to the educational needs of the
young people who find themselves devoid of the opportunities
related to a stable and secure school system.
-We are committed to offering basic life skills which
will facilitate the re-entry and productivity of young
people when once again their life is stable and secure.
-We are intent upon offering gender-sensitive education
which is appropriate both in the types of life basic
skills taught and in an eventual resumption of formal
education.
-We will work with local teachers and other educators
to enable them to address the educational needs of young
people.
-We anticipate that the measurement of our results will
reflect to what extent we have generated the support
of international, national, local organizations and
of the private sector.
Our Objectives
It is only after the basic
needs of the affected populations have been met that
the staff and volunteers of School for All/Ecoles
Pour Tous will move into action. Basic needs such
as adequate food and shelter, physical safety, health
safeguards, and environmental protection are obvious
priorities to be satisfied primarily by other agencies.
School for All/Ecoles Pour Tous will accept,
as much as possible, educators with different backgrounds.
They will provide mostly, but not only, post-primary
education in an academic or vocational program, also
taking into consideration gender-specific needs.
Each program will be tailored to the needs of the affected
populations and will follow the global minimum standards
as developed by the Inter-Agency Network for Education
in Emergencies(INEE).
School for All/Ecoles Pour Tous will also work
with governmental organizations, foundations, corporations,
as well other public and private partners, national
or international, in order to fund its projects.
Above all, School for All/Ecoles Pour Tous is
committed to promote, in all occasions, the rights of
the person as defined by the United Nations.
School for All/Ecoles Pour Tous is committed
to having an Adopt-A-Camp program whereas a school,
a city, an organization or a company is twinned with
a specific refugee camp.
Our Founder
Denis Monnin is a native
of Clamart, France, a suburb of Paris. Having been educated
in Catholic boarding schools and a student at the University
of the Sorbonne during the upheavals of the 1960’s
developed in Denis a thirst for social justice and peace
in his community and the desire to actively seek these
goals in the world around him.
Denis’ career has spanned more than 30 years during
which he was a High School teacher of Geography, French
and History, active in the Social Justice movement as
regards Canada’s involvement in the Arms Race,
a professor of Student Teachers at the University of
Ottawa, a member of the executive of the Ontario Network
of Educators for a Global Perspective, and has given
dozens of workshops for the Children Response to Conflict
and about global education issues for teachers, student
teachers, and students. Through Denis’ teaching,
he has acquired an intimate knowledge of the plight
of people in developing nations, the interconnectedness
of the environment, human development, politics and
social justice. He believes strongly that the role of
the teacher is to help students understand these links
and their role as active agents of change in their community
and the world at large.
On a personal note, Denis is married to France Thibault
and together they have nurtured their combined family
of five of whom they are extremely proud. Their love
of travel has exposed them to a wide variety of cultures.
In keeping with their common desire to share their blessings
with others, Denis has worked to create a program which
will alleviate the burdens of the most vulnerable in
our world – refugees and displaced people.
In founding School-for-All/Ecole –pour-Tous, Denis,
with France and a growing circle of enthusiastic volunteers,
strives to share the education that we take for granted
with young people and their teachers in areas where
education has been interrupted due to war, environmental
disasters, or social strife.
Denis is committed to non-violent solutions to conflict
both in his every day dealings with people and in the
broader political and economic sphere. Through education,
he knows that humans can enhance their personal strengths,
self-esteem, and take an active role in improving their
own communities.“We must become the change we
want to see.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Indian political and spiritual leader (1869 - 1948)
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