Posted: 20/08/09
In the past ten years, Afghanistan has made enormous progress. Schools have reopened and young people stream into classrooms. Afghanistan continues to work hard to remove barriers to learning, resolved to improve opportunities for its children to fulfill their potential.
Posted: 12/08/09
Joyce Wanican, the International Rescue Committee’s education program manager in northern Uganda, shares her story: She was working with the IRC, training teachers at a refugee camp when rebel troops came through. She lost her home and all her posessions. All her students fled with their families—and almost had to miss the all-important national exams. But Joyce wouldn’t let that happen. She successfully appealed to the government of Uganda to reschedule the test. She found all her students at another refugee camp, 65 miles away, and asked them to go back to school the next morning and start studying. “Every big tree in the camp became a classroom,” she said. “We had no time to waste.” Despite everything, Joyce’s students’ exams came back with the “best results ever.”
Posted: 01/04/09
The INEE Global Consultation 2009 kicked off yesterday with video presentations to the 270 delegates from Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu and the President of Liberia Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, and comments from Dr Arslan, Deputy Undersecretary from the Ministry of Education in Turkey, and the Deputy Secretary General of the Commonwealth Secretariat Ms Masire-Mwamba.
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf spoke of her countries work since the end of conflict, the challenges of meeting the Millennium Development Goals and the importance of flexible and sufficient funding for education:
Archbishop Tutu’s address emphasized the importance of education in emergencies, particularly the crucial role that education can play in contributing to peace and justice.
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