Education for All Children
Education Is a Child's Right
Every child has the right to an education. Education transforms lives and breaks the cycle of poverty that traps so many children. An educated child will make sure her own children receive an education.
Innovative Education Programs to Reach All Children
UNICEF has come up with some unique ways to make education accessible to all children. In Ethiopia, our child education fund has been used to build migrating schools that follow the pastoral rhythms of a nomadic community. In Afghanistan, where under Taliban rule women and girls were forbidden to attend school, we are setting up literacy centers so that all children can get the education they deserve.
In the aftermath of war, often nothing can make a child feel more secure than having a school to go to. After the Rwandan genocide, 800,000 people were dead and 95,000 children were orphaned. Many children had witnessed horrible violence or were forced to commit atrocities. For these children, going back to school meant a return to normalcy. So UNICEF developed its School-in-a-Box kit, a portable classroom with all the supplies needed to hold a class anywhere. Since then our School-in-a-Box kits have been distributed during the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, after Hurricane Katrina, and in Darfur.
Whether we’re building schools, making classrooms mobile, training teachers, or even rebuilding an entire educational system--we will do whatever it takes to educate a child.
Related Education Links
August 19, 2010
Democratic education reaches girls in rural Egypt
Sending girls to school is a new concept in parts of rural Egypt. But new UNICEF-supported schools are promoting democratic education in which all students are encouraged to express their opinions. They are given a choice in the subjects they study and how they learn, and are presented with many opportunities to lead and speak in front of their classmates.
August 14, 2010
Unique education programs for Afghanistan's young women
The city of Herat is the setting for ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’ – Khaled Hosseini’s powerful, best-selling novel about the harsh conditions of women in Afghanistan. While life for many women in the country remains difficult, today Herat’s Gowarshad High School – named for the powerful Timurid queen who founded the city – is full of confident young girls who are well aware of their rights.
August 12, 2010
In Southern Sudan, schools offer fresh hope
In Southern Sudan, UNICEF and partners are helping young people who have missed out on significant amounts of their education due to the war. Students here take lessons in Arabic and English, in classes that unite girls and boys of different ethnic and tribal backgrounds. For many, it is the first time they are associating so closely after years of inter-ethnic and inter-tribal conflict.
