When homes became classrooms
These are some of the many stories that continue to pour out of the tiny towns of Yemen, stories that bring to attention the courage of communities that refuse to surrender to circumstances they found...
View ArticleHelping Yemen’s children deal with trauma
As the students quietly file in for morning assembly at Al-Fadheelah School in Sana’a, Yemen, there is no indication of the trauma many of them have experienced, or of the innovative way that the...
View ArticleNo right age for school
In Chad, the Daresalam refugee camp hosts more than 5,000 refugees from Nigeria and Niger. Here, every individual has fled atrocities and violence that plague their countries. The camp’s school is the...
View ArticleTransforming lives in Ghana, as more children with disabilities go to school
“The answer is four,” said Patricia, 10, smiling brightly before she walked to the chalk board with confidence to write the answer to the maths problem in class that morning. Division was the topic of...
View ArticleHope amidst the tragedy in northeast Nigeria
“We all want to go to school,” 11-year old Fatima* tells me, talking on behalf of all eight girls in the wooden hut. After listening to the horror of their stories, it’s not an answer I necessarily...
View ArticleBuilding a better future for girls in Afghanistan
In Shahrak e Muhajireen, a mountainous village in Afghanistan’s central highlands, 28-year old Surayaa Hussaini is passionate about transforming the lives of illiterate girls and women. Surayaa left...
View ArticleGaza: Learning in the shadow of conflict
“I feel good about finishing my exams, a feeling of success that a difficult time has passed,” Mohammad tells me in the schoolyard. The 18-year old from Gaza City just walked out of his final Tawjihi...
View ArticleThe quest for a “beautiful palace”
When I first met him, he was standing on the roof of his house. It was the second day of my assignment for UNICEF in Bangladesh. I was in Kutupalong Refugee Camp seeking stories about the impending...
View ArticleA welcoming classroom – all abilities, one education
Inclusiveness is a theme of 2018’s International Day of Persons with Disabilities. What kind of progress are we making to ensure that children with disabilities can realise their fundamental right to...
View ArticleResponding to Iraq’s learning crisis
Three years after Mosul was retaken from the so-called Islamic State, parts of west Mosul still resemble a warzone with entire neighborhoods laid waste. Buildings remain collapsed into each other like...
View ArticleWhere are the girls and why it matters as schools reopen?
“Where are the girls?” It’s a question that is asked too much when stepping into classrooms around the world. And the further up the school years we go, the more the question bounces around an echo...
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