Over 174 civil society organisations from around the world have called on investors to cease support to Bridge International Academies for allegedly failing to reach the disadvantaged it claimed to serve.
Bridge Academies is a company that runs over 500 commercials and private schools in the world with the support of international donors and investors. According to the civil society organizations, the quality of Bridge schools has not been independently assessed.The organizations from Nairobi, Kampala, Monrovia, and Johannesburg expressed concern over the treatment of unlicensed, unregistered teachers being denied a living wage while working over 60 hours' work per week as some of the issuesIn a release issued Monday, the CSO group outlined how Bridge failed to reach the most disadvantaged it claimed to serve due to high costs, as well as negative impacts on families who were accessing the schools.
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