PHILIPPINES / EDUCATION
Six months after Typhoon Bopha took more than 1,000 lives and displaced more than a million people, teaching and learning are taking place again in elementary schools across affected parts of the Philippines. UNICEF
Six months after Typhoon Bopha took more than 1,000 lives and displaced more than a million people, teaching and learning are taking place again in elementary schools across affected parts of the Philippines. UNICEF
Belgrade schools are becoming more inclusive, integrating students with disabilities and from the Roma communities. UNICEF executive board members pay a visit, to see for themselves the impact that the organization's work can have in a middle-income country like this. UNICEF
A video made by youth, highlights the needs of a young girl with disabilities during an emergency. UNICEF
Some 1.7 million more teachers are needed to achieve universal primary education by 2015, the second of the eight anti-poverty Millennium Development Goals, the heads of various United Nations agencies said today in a joint statement marking World Teachers’ Day. UNTV / FILE
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today (19 September) told reporters he would use the upcoming high-level General Assembly session to personally press more than 120 world leaders to act on Syria. UNTV
UNICEF said today that it is vital to get children back to school at the approaching start of the school year in Syria to give them hope for the future. CH UNTV
A teacher training program supported by UNICEF and the European Union (EU) is providing better methods to teach throughout Angola. Around one third of all teachers in the country have no formal teaching training, part of the legacy left behind after a 27 year civil war. UNICEF
Thousands of teachers conducted an unprecedented primary school census in northern Somalia, helping produce the first comprehensive government-led survey on the state of schools in that region. The survey, to be repeated yearly, is part of a broad effort to rehabilitate and improve the country’s education system – from the inside out. UNICEF
UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake visited a care facility this week in Bangladesh where orphaned and homeless girls are given a safe place to live, each one with a story to tell of violence, abuse and abandonment. UNICEF
UNICEF and partners launched “Getting Ready for school a Child to Child Approach” in 2007 aimed at providing supplementary and cost effective early learning to the most vulnerable. In Bangladesh, only 23 per cent of children go to pre-school. UNICEF