The school linking programme currently operates in communities in China, Kenya, Malawi, Senegal & Sierra Leone.  The schools are often based in rural, remoter areas of the country and are significant distances from urban areas.  The £200 which your school contributes to School improvement means that your link school will have greater opportunity in terms of developing resources to improve the quality of your partnership, whether this is by building more classrooms and libraries, buying more textbooks or providing access to ICT and multimedia resources.   
 
Your partner school is assigned a School Linking Coordinator who delivers workshops with the children, teachers and community and will work alongside your School Linking Coordinator in the UK to help ensure that the partnership is a success.  In order to do this, schools draw up a partnership agreement which focuses on partnership objectives which may include communication, roles & responsibilities, values & principles as well as the sustainability of your link.
 
You and your partner school will also form a steering committee which can participate in the drafting of the agreement and monitor and evaluate its progress as the link develops from the initial stages of correspondence through to exploring collaborative project ideas and your first exchange visit to your link school.  Watch the film below about partner schools!