UNICEF: Bringing child-friendly schools to remote areas in Turkmenistan
In the desert oasis of Kunya Urgench, students are learning to break down barriers that could threaten their future.Their school is one of 20 across Turkmenistan taking part in a pilot program to make schools healthier and more equipped to give children a better education. With support from UNICEF, District School Number One offers students a resource center complete with a computer, dictionaries, games and puzzles.
It's part of an effort to make schools in Turkmenistan "child-friendly:" creating classroom environments that boost learning and respect childrenÃs rights and needs.
In addition to offering special training for teachers, UNICEF and the Turkmenistan government are working to ensure that schools have clean and healthy water and sanitation facilities... a key improvement in a region where less than 30 percent of rural schools have safe sources of drinking water, and where heavy dust from the Karakum desert blows through for up to nine months a year.
Embed code for Blogs
Simply copy and paste the following HTML code below into your blog, website, or MySpace profile.
Copy to Clipboard
Share this video:
Simply click the button below and select your social bookmarking site.
Tag Cloud
Category: Human Services
In the desert oasis of Kunya Urgench, students are learning to break down barriers that could threaten their future.Their school is one of 20 across Turkmenistan taking part in a pilot program to make schools healthier and more...
Views: 17718
Category: Science & Technology
The Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF), the world's largest international pre-college science competition, annually provides a forum for more than 1,500 high school students from over 40 countries to...
Tags:
college, school, students, high school students, pre-college science competition, intel international science and engineering fair, tags: intel
Views: 19510
Category: Science & Technology
The Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF), the world's largest international pre-college science competition, annually provides a forum for more than 1,500 high school students from over 40 countries to...
Tags:
college, school, students, high school students, pre-college science competition, intel international science and engineering fair, tags: intel
Views: 15461
Category: Science & Technology
IBM helped pioneer information technology over the years, and it stands today at the forefront of a worldwide industry that is revolutionizing the way in which enterprises, organizations and people operate and thrive.The pace of...
Views: 11299
Category: Environment & Global Warming
The 11th Hour examines the human relationship with earth from its earliest glimmers of innovation, to the challenges humanity faces in the present, to the possibilities of the future. The film posits that in many ways, humanity has...
Tags:
future generations, blue planet, ecology, nature, humanity, earth, leonardo dicaprio, tags: 11th hour
Views: 18512
Category: Science & Technology
"Project Big Green," a $1-billion-a-year effort to make data centers worldwide more energy-efficient, cost-effective and greener overall.The company announced, as part of this plan, that it would use the latest hardware,...
Tags:
tags: ibm, project big green, energy-efficient, cost-effective, greener overall, greenhouse gases
Views: 16409
Category: Science & Technology
The Eco-Patent Commons is an initiative to create a collection of patents on
technology that directly or indirectly protects the environment. The patents will be pledged by companies and other intellectual property rights...
Views: 10710
Category: International & Intercultural
The Chinese New Year that is celebrated for about fifteen days is one moment in the year when the whole nation feels united as they can imagine each other's enjoyment.The Chinese New Year gets determined by the Lunar calendar and...
Tags:
china, chinese lunar year festival, lunar new year, lunar calendar, year of the rat, tags: chinese new year
Views: 13837
Category: International & Intercultural
Lion dance is a form of traditional dance in Chinese culture, in which performers mimic a lion's movements
in a lion costume. The lion costume is operated by a pair of dancers. The dancers combine forming the back and
fore legs of...
Views: 16403
Category: International & Intercultural
Lion dance is a form of traditional dance in Chinese culture, in which performers mimic a lion's movements
in a lion costume. The lion costume is operated by a pair of dancers. The dancers combine forming the back and
fore legs of...
Views: 9841
Category: International & Intercultural
The year 2007 marked the 150th anniversary of the selection of Ottawa as Canada's capital. A century and a half ago, Queen Victoria accepted the recommendation of her senior officials
and chose Ottawa as Canada's seat of...
Views: 11411
UNICEF: Lao launches massive measles immunization campaign
Project Aware: Ed Harris
Live8: Africa Sings
Don't Pass Gas: PSA 1
Verizon Wireless Chaperone Educational Video Chapter 3
Tolerance is...Kids
Financial Literacy - TV Store
The relationship of Ethanol production to the price of food
PTA: Drama Club
Financial Literacy - Feed the pig
Peripheral Artery Disease
George Clooney travels to Sudan and Chad
UNICEF - SIerra Leone Children Summer
Stop Alcohol Abuse: Lisa
UNICEF: A former soldier's story of finding peace
Addis Ababa Mayor Birhane Deressa on climate change and solar energy
Chris Rock - Live Earth PSA
Volvo Ocean Race Editions 2008 from Volvo Cars