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School clubs help conflict-affected children in Syria access remedial...
©UNICEF/Syria/2013/YoungmeyerChildren take part in an activity at a UNICEF-supported school club in Tartous governorate. DAMASCUS/AMMAN, 26 November 2013 – Despite extraordinary challenges associated...
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Rebuilding a life – and returning to school – after Typhoon Haiyan
Like many survivors of Typhoon Haiyan, 17-year-old Lian Fernandez, a high school senior, now faces an uncertain future. With her school damaged, a setback in her education is among lingering...
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Podcast #89: Year-end wrap on Beyond School Books
© UNICEF/UKLA2013-00780/Karin Schermbrucker Iraq, 2013Children sit at the Child Friendly Space (CFS) in the Domiz refugee camp in Northern Iraq. NEW YORK, USA, 26 December, 2013 – In this year-end...
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For one Palestinian girl, confidence is found in education and activities
KUFR ZEIBAD, State of Palestine, 6 January 2014 – Mariam is 14 years old. She lives in Kufr Zeibad, a tiny village in the northern West Bank. She attends school and will work in the family’s small...
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In Lebanon, a Syrian-Palestinian refugee girl looks for her path
A Palestinian girl who fled the Syrian conflict with her family tries to adjust to life in a refugee camp in Beirut, but the challenges are many. BEIRUT, Lebanon, 7 January 2014 – Aya carefully sweeps...
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Bringing learning to Syrian refugee children in Lebanon
“A child in school is a child protected.” – UNICEF Representative in Lebanon Annamaria Laurini BEIRUT, Lebanon, 14 January 2014 – Many of the younger children struggle to hold a pen. Some don’t know...
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Podcast #90: Shine the light of education
After decades of reporting on the human cost of war, Janine di Giovanni can clearly articulate the way forward. “We have to shine the light in darkness, and that light is education,” she says in the...
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In Nigeria, bringing the message of education for all
The Day of the African Child is celebrated every year on 16 June. The theme for 2014 is ‘a child friendly, quality, free and compulsory education for all children in Africa’. In Nigeria, more than 10.5...
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Scholarships Give Girls in Somalia a Chance to Go to School
The Day of the African Child is celebrated every year on 16 June. The theme for 2014 is ‘a child friendly, quality, free and compulsory education for all children in Africa’. In commemoration of the...
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Podcast #96 – Power to young advocates
© UNICEF/ETHA2013_00429/Ose/Ethiopia, 2013Hannah Godefa, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador for Ethiopia, mingles with her fellow students at Abobo Woreda 1st and 2nd Cycle Primary School in Abobo in Gambella...
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In northern Nigeria, a little cash goes a long way towards getting girls to...
This story was originally posted on the UNICEF.org website. Tens of thousands of girls in north-western Nigeria will benefit from a cash transfer programme aimed at helping cover the costs of sending...
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Education for All in Sri Lanka: Striving for “a big win for everyone”
© UNICEF NEW YORK, 4 November 2014 – Sri Lanka’s universal primary education policies of the past 70 years have been a great success – for most children. Nearly 98 per cent of children complete a...
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Attacks Against Girls Seeking Access to Education
Background Paper, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, 2015 Attacks against girls accessing education persist and, alarmingly, appear to be occurring with increasingly regularity in...
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Contextualizing education services: Possibilities for disadvantaged girls in...
This story by Jamila Razzaq originally appeared on the Brookings Institution Education+Development Blogs webspace. 28 September 2015 – The factors hindering girls’ education in Pakistan are...
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