Archive for October, 2013

Chute-less Jump

Chute-less Jump

October 25, 2013 / by / 0 Comment

Judge you on their own with these images as intrepid which is our friend…

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UNICEF: Helping Children Stay In School In The Occupied Palestinian Territory

UNICEF: Helping Children Stay In School In The Occupied Palestinian Territory

October 25, 2013 / by / 0 Comment

The basic right of children to go to school is continually threatened in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Access to schools is regularly jeopardized by Israeli military operations and intra-Palestinian conflict.

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UNICEF: With help from the Government of Japan, Southern Sudan rebuilds its schools

UNICEF: With Help from the Government of Japan, Southern Sudan Rebuilds Its Schools

October 25, 2013 / by / 0 Comment

Japan has contributed $8.6 million to Southern Sudan, aiding the region’s school-rebuilding efforts following two decades of civil war that devastated the education system there.

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UNICEF: Zimbabwean Grandmothers Help Build A School For Their Community's Children

UNICEF: Zimbabwean Grandmothers Help Build A School For Their Community’s Children

October 25, 2013 / by / 0 Comment

High in the hills of eastern Zimbabwe, 1,000 people who were taken to this isolated patch of forest two years ago, with nothing beyond what they could carry, have built a community and are now constructing a school.

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UNICEF: "Go to School" Initiative Offers Better Life to Youth in Southern Sudan

UNICEF: “Go to School” Initiative Offers Better Life to Youth in Southern Sudan

October 25, 2013 / by / 0 Comment

Progress has come quickly to Southern Sudan. Two years after a historic peace agreement ended Africa’s longest-running civil war, urban roads are congested with traffic and classrooms that once lacked students are now overflowing.

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UNICEF: Supporting Access To Early Education For Children In Rural Mongolia

UNICEF: Supporting Access To Early Education For Children In Rural Mongolia

October 25, 2013 / by / 0 Comment

By whatever transport available, parents bring their children to a lone Mongolian Ger on a vast dry plain. Inside, young boys and girls are learning a popular folk song.

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UNICEF: Nafa Centers Give Guinean Girls A Second Chance At Education

UNICEF: Nafa Centers Give Guinean Girls A Second Chance At Education

October 25, 2013 / by / 0 Comment

UNICEF works in a consulting capacity with the Ministry of Education, developing guidelines for Nafa centers so that they will continue to provide girls with the knowledge and skills to make the best of their lives.

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Anita Ramu Rathod, Pupil at Doorstep School, Mumbai

Anita Ramu Rathod, Pupil at Doorstep School, Mumbai

October 25, 2013 / by / 0 Comment

‘My name is Anita Ramu Rathod, I am from the Gypsy community where very few girls receive an education, I am lucky that I continue to study.’

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Bina Lashkari, Director of the Doorstep Program, Mumbai

Bina Lashkari, Director of the Doorstep Program, Mumbai

October 25, 2013 / by / 0 Comment

“Doorstep school as the name suggests – wherever we find the children – we take them from pre-primary to a formal education”

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Children Orphaned by AIDS in Zimbabwe Struggle to Survive

Children Orphaned by AIDS in Zimbabwe Struggle to Survive

October 25, 2013 / by / 0 Comment

Once things were brighter here; there were job and fathers and mothers. Disease and death wrecked all that. Now, it is their frail and aging grandmother who is the centre of their lives.

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