School in an Envelope

“School in an Envelope” is an initiative that aims to tackle the lack of trained preschool teachersand lack of nursery funding and resources in rural Malawi by providing low-cost, easy-to-useflashcard lesson packs. Participants in the scheme go through several programme phases beforecompletion including baseline testing of students, fruit tree-planting and teacher upskilling inEducation for Sustainable Development (ESD).The aim of this SDG project is to measure the impact at community level of this educationalintervention on numeracy levels of preschoolers, providing a model that could be used in otherrural, developing contexts to achieve SDG 4.2 (i.e. that all girls and boys should have access toquality early childhood development, care and pre-primary education so that they are ready forprimary education.)