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What school looks like in 20 countries around the world. Tokyo, Japan. Toru Hanai. In some parts of the world, students have to overcome challenging circumstances such as war, political unrest ...
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SYRIA There are 1,400 students in the Saif Al-Dawleh School for Girls in Douma, East Ghouta, Syria. Saif Al-Dawleh is one of seven schools in Douma supported by UNICEF. After a seven-year siege, out of the city's 34 schools, 14 have been completely destroyed or heavily damaged. "In Douma, families are living — and raising children — amidst ...
- Uganda
- Indonesia
- Ethiopia
- Democratic Republic of The Congo
- Afghanistan
- Papua New Guinea
- Haiti
- Fiji
- Burundi
- Yemen
"I feel great to be back to school. I was missing learning and counseling from my teachers. At home I didn't learn online because my parents could not afford it," says Selugo. Uganda reopened its schools in January 2022 after the longest COVID-19 shutdown in the world. Besides learning, schools offer safety, access to health care and sometimes chil...
Novi was chosen by her peers to be an ‘agent of change’ to help change the culture at her junior high school in West Papua Province. The UNICEF-supported life skills program equips girls and boys with the skills to make informed decisions about their lives. The pandemic resulted in the closure of all 530,000 schools in Indonesia in March 2020, affe...
In March 2020, schools in Ethiopia closed because of COVID-19. Not only did community transmission of the virus stop schools from reopening, ongoing conflict in the country worsened – keeping classrooms closed for thousands of children across the country. As a result, an estimated 1.4 million children have missed out on learning.UNICEF is supportin...
Education is the key to the future we all want to see. It all starts here, at schools like this one in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where children eagerly raise their hands to answer questions. In March 2020, schools closed nationwide in the DRC to help limit the spread of COVID-19, depriving more than 27 million children of access t...
Not long ago, these children fled violence. They left behind their homes, friends and the communities they grew up in to seek safety in a camp for internally displaced people in Afghanistan. They’ve seen more violence in their few years than anyone should in a lifetime. Now, they have a reason to smile.They’re back in school in a UNICEF Child Frien...
“All my children don’t know how to read or write so I want my grandson to be educated,” says his grandmother Gangena. In Papua New Guinea (PNG), few children enrol in, let alone complete, early learning. Schools are often too far from remote villages or lack the resources for quality learning. In September 2021, a nation-wide lockdown due to COVID-...
In an emergency, education is just like water, sanitation and nutrition - it cannot wait. Schools help children to stay safe, to cope with the profound stress of a crisis and to prepare for a more peaceful future. When fighting in Malakal, South Sudan saw 18 people die and a primary school burnt down - UNICEF helped get these children back to schoo...
On their first day back to school, students at a primary school in Fiji pose as they enjoy their lunchbreak playing in front of their newly set up UNICEF-supplied temporary classroom. In the aftermath of Tropical Cyclone Yasa UNICEF helped schools preare to welcome children back by providing education supplies, including tents and tarpaulins for te...
This is not your ordinary lesson. These teenagers in Burundi are learning how to make rocket stoves. This special type of stove uses less firewood and reduces smoke inhalation, giving young people more time to study, instead of collecting firewood. “If I visit my relatives, I will build them an improved stove,” says Jean Baptiste. He is part of the...
It only took minutes for bombing to damage Ahmed’s classroom in Yemen, but despite the circumstances, the school kept operating. However, over 2 million school-age girls and boys are now out of school as poverty, conflict and lack of opportunities disrupt their education. UNICEF has been on the ground in Yemen long before the crisis began.Our teams...
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Oct 4, 2020 · Tokyo, Japan.Toru Hanai. In some parts of the world, students have to overcome challenging circumstances such as war, political unrest, and poverty to attend school. The power of learning can help ...
Nov 13, 2015 · November 13, 2015 at 4:00 a.m. EST. To mark last month’s World Teachers’ Day (sponsored by UNESCO , the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), photographers from ...
