Suas Educational Development

Suas Educational Development is a registered charity in Ireland. The organisation, which has traded as STAND since 2024, aims to tackle educational disadvantage in India, Kenya and Ireland and has an ethos of youth development. Suas was founded by a group of students from Trinity College Dublin in 2002, and as of 2018 had a reported annual income of over €1.2m. Suas partners with several education NGOs in the developing world, in particular in India and Kenya, 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, 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. The charity also runs literacy programs for younger children.

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.