In Fortaleza, eight out of ten children living in poverty do not attend daycare. In Pirambu, the seventh largest favela in Brazil, one of the city’s first community daycares was born.
Katic Wallah is separated by a river from Gbainty Wallah, the administrative centre that hosts Kankaylay Islamic Agricultural Secondary School, the only secondary education institution for the surrounding villages. The children of Katic – around 80 in total – must cross the Gbainty-Katic River daily, a journey fraught with danger.
When I was 7 years old, my science teacher often stood in front of the class and imitated how I walked. As a result, my classmates would laugh at me. No one comfortably shared a seat with me or played with me. Some believed I would pass on my disability to them.
In a country where 18.3 million children are out of school, Chess in Slums Africa has engaged more than 10,000 children across the continent – using the game to open doors to education.
How Two Teachers Are Giving Hope To Rural Children
At 23 years old, Ana gets ready every morning, full of motivation to welcome her students to the computer lab. The morning mist that clings to the coffee plantations endlessly across the hillsides bears witness to the route that the children walk every day to get to El Faro school, in the community of Cañas Verdes.
For many refugee women, escaping war is only the beginning of their journey to freedom. Even after reaching safety, the struggle continues in many forms: isolation, financial hardship, cultural barriers and the emotional weight of starting life from nothing.
Our Classrooms Are Broken – But Our Dreams Are Not
“They value knowledge differently,” says Fátima, looking at her students as the rain pounds the tin roof. “Here, they don’t come just to learn. They come to change their history.”
Where I live is like a jail, but it isn’t a jail. More than one million Rohingya people live in the refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. This is the place we have called home for the past eight years.
Narin Mohammad entered motherhood in her early twenties, when she was, in her own words, a sheltered Syrian expat living in the UAE. She never left her parents’ house before marriage to venture on her own and was unaware of the journey that lay ahead of her.
A boy in a yellow polo shirt sits quietly at a desk at the back of his classroom. During the school day, a quick “brain break” – where he takes five minutes with sensory toys and his support teacher – gives him a reprieve from the buzz of 30 classmates and his teacher’s instructions. For Umar, and thousands of students like him across the UK, this is not a luxury. It’s something he needs to be able to learn like his peers.
Theirworld and The Observer Studios launch The Education Issue
Global children’s charity Theirworld has worked with The Observer Studios, the content studio of The Observer newspaper, to publish the first edition of The Education Issue - an annual newspaper created by young people worldwide, reporting on education in their local communities.
A boy in a yellow polo shirt sits quietly at a desk at the back of his classroom. During the school day, a quick “brain break” – where he takes five minutes with sensory toys and his support teacher – gives him a reprieve from the buzz of 30 classmates and his teacher’s instructions. For Umar, and thousands of students like him across the UK, this is not a luxury. It’s something he needs to be able to learn like his peers.
For many refugee women, escaping war is only the beginning of their journey to freedom. Even after reaching safety, the struggle continues in many forms: isolation, financial hardship, cultural barriers and the emotional weight of starting life from nothing.
When I was 7 years old, my science teacher often stood in front of the class and imitated how I walked. As a result, my classmates would laugh at me. No one comfortably shared a seat with me or played with me. Some believed I would pass on my disability to them.
Katic Wallah is separated by a river from Gbainty Wallah, the administrative centre that hosts Kankaylay Islamic Agricultural Secondary School, the only secondary education institution for the surrounding villages. The children of Katic – around 80 in total – must cross the Gbainty-Katic River daily, a journey fraught with danger.
In Fortaleza, eight out of ten children living in poverty do not attend daycare. In Pirambu, the seventh largest favela in Brazil, one of the city’s first community daycares was born.
How Two Teachers Are Giving Hope To Rural Children
At 23 years old, Ana gets ready every morning, full of motivation to welcome her students to the computer lab. The morning mist that clings to the coffee plantations endlessly across the hillsides bears witness to the route that the children walk every day to get to El Faro school, in the community of Cañas Verdes.
In a country where 18.3 million children are out of school, Chess in Slums Africa has engaged more than 10,000 children across the continent – using the game to open doors to education.
Narin Mohammad entered motherhood in her early twenties, when she was, in her own words, a sheltered Syrian expat living in the UAE. She never left her parents’ house before marriage to venture on her own and was unaware of the journey that lay ahead of her.
Where I live is like a jail, but it isn’t a jail. More than one million Rohingya people live in the refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. This is the place we have called home for the past eight years.
Our Classrooms Are Broken – But Our Dreams Are Not
“They value knowledge differently,” says Fátima, looking at her students as the rain pounds the tin roof. “Here, they don’t come just to learn. They come to change their history.”
