To address the challenges of providing educational opportunities for out-of-school children, EDC leads a consortium of 12 national and international organizations from the Malian Federation of NGOs (FONGIM) that have banded together to implement the Access to Education for All Children in Mali project (PACETEM). In partnership with Educate A Child (EAC), a program of the Education Above All Foundation, PACETEM will increase enrollment and retention of 596,597 of the most vulnerable out-of-school children through strategies targeting specific challenges nationwide. As a part of PACETEM, nongovernmental organizations will raise awareness of the value of schooling, established one-classroom schools in remote populations, use mobile schools to reach nomadic and migrating communities, establish accelerated learning programs, provide intensive remediation classes during the summer months, reach out to families with physically disabled children, and construct new classrooms in overcrowded schools.