Suas Educational Development

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Suas Educational Development is a registered charity in Ireland. [1] The organisation, which has traded as STAND since 2024, [2] aims to tackle educational disadvantage in India, Kenya and Ireland and has an ethos of youth development. [3] Suas was founded by a group of students from Trinity College Dublin in 2002, [4] and as of 2018 had a reported annual income of over €1.2m. [5] Suas partners with several education NGOs in the developing world, in particular in India and Kenya, [6] in order to provide education to underprivileged youth.

The charity's overseas programmes include 'Education for All', which is intended to provide support to education projects in India and Kenya.[ citation needed ] Schools in the program include several in Kolkata, in Nairobi, [7] and in Mombasa.[ citation needed ]

The charity's activities within Ireland are coordinated via a network of college-based societies involved in volunteering and fundraising.[ citation needed ] A mentoring programme is also run for transition year and fifth year secondary students from disadvantaged areas in Dublin. [4] The charity also runs literacy programs for younger children. [8] [9]

References

  1. ↑ "Charity Detail - Suas Educational Development Limited". charitiesregulator.ie. Charities Regulator. Retrieved 19 October 2022.
  2. ↑ "Our Story | STAND". stand.ie. Retrieved 4 November 2025. Suas Educational Development [..] started trading as STAND in 2024
  3. ↑ "What We Do | STAND". stand.ie. Retrieved 2024-12-16.
  4. 1 2 "To do it is to learn it". irishtimes.com. Irish Times. 16 April 2008. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  5. ↑ "Suas Educational Development - Financial Statements and Directors Report for the year ended 31 December 2018" (PDF), stand.ie, Suas Educational Development, p. 23, retrieved 4 November 2025
  6. ↑ "About Us". suas.ie. Suas Educational Development. Archived from the original on 7 August 2020.
  7. ↑ "The $10-a-month teacher - and the slum school she rescued". theguardian.com. The Guardian. 3 October 2016. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  8. ↑ "Mentor programme helps pupils in Cork school accelerate their reading ability". irishexaminer.com. Irish Examiner. 6 June 2016. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  9. ↑ "One-in-10 Irish children can't read properly when leaving school". thejournal.ie. Journal Media Ltd. 6 September 2014. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
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