DNS Huambo

Project start: 1995
Graduates in total: 456
Graduates team 2006: 82
Team 2007:  66
Team 2008: 110

Team 2005 graduated in January 2008 and all 45 newly-qualified teachers are now working, mostly in rural primary schools. 2006 team's long training period has seen the participants teach in 9 of the province's 11 municipalities. 2007 team participated enthusiastically in the electoral commission's work in autumn 2008 as a practical way of teaching (and learning) about democracy. Through this work they also fulfilled the community service part of their curriculum. The new team, which started in autumn 2008, is 110 students, of which 46 are female. This brings the school close to the goal of gender balance in each team, which will lead to more female teachers in village and thereby contribute to improved education of girls. A thorough renovation of the school was completed in the period and 4 new dormitories have been built . This has given a significant lift to life at the school.  Among other activities during the period, the Huambo school, in collaboration with UNICEF Angola, held training courses sanitation for primary teachers in the area. In one single week of December 190 teachers from 45 primary schools were taught how to start activities in their own schools to improve the sanitation situation.