The aim of KETAAKETI is to provide sustainable support for children in the poorest countries through primary education.

Securing and stabilizing school attendance creates opportunities for a self-determined life, self-confidence and a future worth living. Many families do not have the means for necessary school materials and often cannot provide the children with enough food for the school day.

Microfinance provides the basis for stabilized primary school attendance for the children, which is at the same time the condition for the start-up financing. The background to this is that many families in the poorest countries are dependent on the labour of their children.

They often have to help or beg and therefore cannot attend school regularly. The start-up is intended to create greater independence from the children's cooperation and enable the families to provide them with regular meals for the school day.

 In addition to this stabilization of school attendance through microfinance, school support is provided in a form that is country and culture-specific, sometimes even regionally different.

National implementation

In Nepal, KETAAKETI and our partner organizations SPOWC finance, for example, the “Social Classes” model with € 1 per child per month: one-year school habituation classes for children from extremely poor, mostly illiterate families. This is very successful and leads to the subsequent visit to the regular state primary school. As a basic and stabilizing support, this small amount enables and requires a large amount of the Nepalis' own commitment and is supplemented by special donations (e.g. for school uniforms) as required.

In the African partner organizations, on the other hand, “school pots” and autonomous use are used for the best possible effort. School bags, exercise books and school uniforms, for example, are bought on site. Sewing workshops supported with microfinance reduce the need for donations in the long term through self-made school uniforms.

Small amounts - big impact

Both microfinance and primary school support are based on the KETAAKETI principle: "Small amounts, big impact" and thus correspond to the approach of " the naturalness of sharing ".

The small amount means appreciation of the competences and resources of the poorest people and allows a lot of freedom for their own commitment, but also demands it ("KETAAKETI principle").

Read more about our principles here!