About Us
About Us
Who We Are
Our aim is education, and it’s important for creating a better society and giving all children a better future, quality of life, and work, to name a few. The high-quality early child education goes a long way in building the foundation for children to equip them with knowledge, confidence and opportunity for further higher education.
A group of like-minded friends came together to establish a non-profit organization called “Forum to Assist Children’s Education (FACE)”, with a single goal in mind, “To provide high-quality early child education to children from economically challenged families.” The pre-school concept and the implementation plan have been discussed by friends residing in different countries, as we know the importance of early education as it is a critical pathway for changing values and motivating improvements on key development indicators within the community.
FACE has been legally registered as a non-profit organization in Canada, France, Norway, Sri Lanka and the UK. FACE consists of ten (10) members: one representative from each country in which it was registered, a global coordinator, and five (5) members from Sri Lanka.
As part of the free education policy in Sri Lanka, primary and collegiate schools are supported by the Government which is very limited or no support at all to the pre-schools. This is vastly affecting the pre-schools in low-income areas. FACE is determined to provide better education to children who live in these areas. When children are educated, communities are better equipped to cope with adversity, crises and make investments in the future and more importantly, for their future.
Geographic Areas of Operation
Organizational Structure
Our organization is structured in three layers as follows:
- Unit of the Field Coordinators
- Board of the Country Executive Councils
- Governing Executive Council
Unit of the Field Coordinators
This unit is responsible for:
- Collecting data related to preschools;
- Identifying villages where there is a need to develop new pre-schools or renovate the existing ones;
- Preparation of plans to develop and/ or renovate pre-schools in the identified villages;
- Analyzing the needs, problems and deficiencies of the selected pre-schools;
- Monitoring the performance of the selected pre-schools;
- Developing and improving the structure and resources of the selected preschools;
- Building rapport with the parents, teachers and other stakeholders in the community;
- Preparation and formal submission of draft project plans to the Executive Council for recommendation.
Board of the Country Executive Councils
This unit comprises of all the members of the executive councils in four countries where FACE operates. This unit is entrusted with the responsibility of scrutinizing the motions and draft plans forwarded by the coordinators, and presenting them with recommendations to the Governing body for final approval.
Governing Executive Council
- To analyze and approve the recommendations elaborated and forwarded by the Board of country executive councils;
- Ensure the implementation of the motions that have already been approved;
- Examine and approve the statement of accounts presented to them;
- Organize and conduct regular general meetings as per the constitution; and
- Conduct elections to elect members of the country executive councils.
