UNICEF: “Go to School” Initiative Offers Better Life to Youth in Southern Sudan
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
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 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
‘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
“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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UNICEF: Guinea Townships Take Extra Steps To Make Sure Their Children Receive A Quality Education
In the past 5 years, the number of Guinean girls going to school has increased dramatically thanks to a combined effort by local and national governments and development partners.
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UNICEF: Trading Guns for Textbooks
As a child, Mayom Mabuoung was a soldier in Southern Sudan. Like many other children, Mayom’s transition to civilian life in southern Sudan was not easy.
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Life Skills Lessons Turn Turen Students Into Role Models
Every day after school, 7th grader Jeren Yovbagshiyeva sits down with her family for afternoon tea.Today, instead of the usual talk about her progress in class, she has something different to discuss.
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