Edlumino

Edlumino is an educational organisation founded in Cambridge, UK on 3 October 2015.[1]

The organisation

The company exists to develop software and other products which can improve school efficiency and thereby generate funding in order to improve the education of disadvantaged pupils.

Edlumino Education Aid is a subsidiary Non-governmental organization focusing particularly upon organising charitable support to improve the education of displaced and refugee children. Working with schools such as Bishop's Stortford College,[2] the organisation has gathered old text books and deployed teachers to work with the refugee children at Grande-Synthe and at Calais. As a result of an appeal for support in January 2016 Edlumino was innundated with offers of support from teachers across the UK.[3] The organisation also raised almost £20,000 in donations from members of the public, in order to support teachers travelling to the camps to tutor refugee children.[4] The organisation worked in both of the camps at Calais and Grande-Synthe although in the winter of 2015 it was focused mostly upon supporting the children at Grande-Synthe[5]

Award winning writer and teacher Natalie Scott has been described as inspirational[6] and has produced a popular blog about her work teaching refugees with Edlumino.[7] The Edlumino teachers and volunteers work from tents or classrooms, re-engaging refugee children who have been out of education for several years.[8]

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References

  1. ↑ "Endole, UK Company Insights". Endole. Retrieved 26 February 2016.
  2. ↑ "The College donates books to Edlumino Educational Aid". Bishop Stortford College. Retrieved 26 February 2016.
  3. ↑ Weale, Sally (27 Jan 2016). "Dunkirk refugee school inundated with offers of help". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 February 2016.
  4. ↑ "Edlumino Education Aid". Just Giving. Retrieved 26 February 2016.
  5. ↑ Weale, Sally (22 Jan 2016). "Isle of Wight 'superhead' running makeshift school for refugees". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 February 2016.
  6. ↑ "What's in it for me". Teacher Toolkit: the most influential blog on education in the UK. Retrieved 26 February 2016. See also"SLE Specialism: English". Academies Enterprise Trust. AET. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  7. ↑ "Educating Dunkirk: A school day". Miss Scott said What ?. Retrieved 26 February 2016.
  8. ↑ "Cambridge man sets up makeshift school in Dunkirk camp in bid to help educate young refugees". Cambridge Evening News. 3 Feb 2016. Retrieved 26 February 2016.
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