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BiH High School Students Offer Solutions to the Problems in Their Local Community

Federal Ministry of Education and Science of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the local association “Infohouse” organized 6th annual “Volunteer-Finance” fair in order to present the results of last year’s Social day. Social...
by Aldina Dzebo
 
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Vietnam: Ha Nam Paves the Way for Road Safety

Low- and middle-income countries sustain 90% of the 1.2 million annual deaths and 50 million injuries that arise from road crashes, yet they own only 40% of the world’s motor vehicles. Between 30% and 85% of trauma hospit...
by Alice Formwalt
 
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Plans for ‘One BiH, One Book’ Project Undergoing in Bosnia and Herzegovina

The United States Embassy in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) has recently revealed its plans for the realization of ‘One BiH, One Book‘ project. Project is to be realized in cooperation with the publishing house “Sa...
by Aldina Dzebo
 
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Wake Forest Students Help Children’s Education in Honduras

Students Helping Honduras (SHH), a newly chartered organization at Wake Forest University, plans to help destitute children in Honduras with a basic right: education. SHH is a chapter of a larger national organization begun in ...
by Mantra Roy
 
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World Bank Funds Two Nigerian Projects to Improve Education and Employment Opportunities

Recently it was announced that the World Bank will be financing two major projects in Nigeria. They are the Nigeria Youth Employment and Social Support Operation (YESSO), and the Nigeria State Education Program Investment Proje...
by Sera Yoo
 
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Honduras: The HAVE Foundation Enables Education of Disadvantaged Children

The Agalta Valley, located in the mountains of eastern Honduras, has 50,000 inhabitants whose progress has been limited owing to their remote location. Impoverished, with very few opportunities for quality education and health ...
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Research4Life Initiative Gives Developing Countries Access to 12,200 Online Books

The publishing firm John Wiley & Sons, Inc. recently announced that it would make available 12,200 e-books to developing areas around the world.  The texts are made available through the efforts of the Research4Life initia...
by Sean Yi
 
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Honduras: Children’s Book Sales Fund School Improvement

In 2000, teacher Patty Villanueva witnessed that the underprivileged  children around her in the small Honduran town of La Entrada were unable to go to school. As an educator herself, she therefore decided to make a difference...
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Philippines: ‘Early Learning for Life’ Program is Just the Beginning

The foundations of learning are built from the moment of birth. Could early childhood education be a key ingredient for closing the gaps that threaten global educational growth? UNICEF, alongside the Department of Social Welfar...
by Alice Formwalt
 
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Lunches for Learning in Honduras

In Honduras, Lunches For Learning or L4L works actively to alleviate rural poverty. It is a non-profit organization that funds not only school supplies, construction of buildings, and community kitchens for mothers to cook, but...
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Seven Nepali Women Climb Mount Kilimanjaro for Girls’ Education

Seven young Nepali women have taken on the challenge of climbing Mount Kilimanjaro to promote education for girls, along with women’s rights. These women are trying to climb all seven of the world’s highest mountains, h...
by Sera Yoo
 
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Cisco Provides New Platform for Education in India

Cisco Systems, Inc. has produced hardware known as the Cisco Education Enabled Development (CEED 2700) to Indian educators and students. It will provide two-way video communication for teachers in India to reach students miles ...
by Sera Yoo
 
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In Paraguay, Global Infancia Provides Education and Rights to Children

Global Infancia, or Global Children, was founded in Paraguay in 1995 with the objective of providing children and adolescents their rights as subjects. In the aftermath of the dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner, Global Children...
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Bilingual Education in Honduras: The Success of Mayatan

While many schools in Honduras offer bilingual education, most of them are reserved for the elites of society. Mayatan is a rural non-profit K-12 school, founded by local mothers, that offers financial assistance to almost half...
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West London School Provides Extra Tuition for Political Refugees

On the outskirts of West London a small group of dedicated practitioners have created a multi-storey educational complex tailored towards helping political refugees. Owl Education, situated in Southall, was founded in 1987 du...
by Ashleigh Brown
 
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Spotlight on Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah Scholarship Program

Established in 2005, the King Abdullah Scholarship Program (KASP) is a scholarship program for Saudi Arabians to study abroad at the undergraduate, graduate, or doctoral level. Since 2005, the program has cost US $5 billion, wh...
by Ling Shu
 
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Ensuring Access to Education for Indigenous Young Women: The Sacred Valley Project

The Sacred Valley Project (SVP) was established in 2009 to provide educational support services for young women from low-income, rural and hard-to-reach regions of the Andes by facilitating access to secondary education. In the...
by Ling Shu
 
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Myanmar President Aims to Increase Educational Budget

Myanmar’s President, Thein Sein, recently outlined plans to increase the nation’s financial investment in the education sector, stating that education would be the key to progressing economic development. Sein stre...
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At Sugar Labs, Two Uruguayan Students Win Google’s Code-In Prize

At the recent Digital Learning Day celebration on 6th February, Sugar Labs, a non-profit that provides education through free and open source technologies, invited winners of the Google Code-In Grand Prize. Uruguay’s Agustin ...
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Teach at Honduras’ Leadership Center

If you want to volunteer and teach poor students in Honduras, here is an excellent opportunity: the Leadership Center (LC) invites applications for teachers who will be responsible for teaching college students in Honduras. The...
by Mantra Roy
 
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Hi-Tech Educational Start-Ups in Latin America

Education and technology have joined hands in recent years to revolutionize the way students in the developing world access education. Far from a duplication of USA’s business models, some ed-tech platforms have designed reso...
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Bhutan Bringing Conservation into Conversation and Practice in Elementary Schools

In Thimphu, Bhutan‘s capital, one school’s moto is “Let nature be your teacher.” The school has a communal vegetable garden, flower gardens, recycle and reuse activities, trees, and children learn basic ...
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Open Access to Books for Arabic Science Education

Former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton announced, as one of her last acts in office, a new project that may change the way Arabic speaking teachers and students access information. The Open Book Project (OBP) was launche...
by Catarina Loureiro
 
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European University Scholarships for Indigenous Students in Latin America

The Preciosa Project of the European Commission offers a unique opportunity to Latin American indigenous students: 35 scholarships to study Bachelor’s or Master’s degrees in European Universities in the fields of Informatio...
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Flat Stanley Connects School Children from Uruguay and the USA

Susan Dana, a Spanish teacher at Cape Elizabeth Middle School, in Maine, USA and Ana Rodriguez, a fourth-grade teacher in Pan de Azucar, a small town in Uruguay, are current participants in a cultural exchange program for teach...
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Microfinance from Vittana Helps Students in Paraguay

Today, Alice Benitez in Villacarria, Paraguay, studies Kinesiology in medical college. But since 1996, when she was 12 years old, she had little hope in achieving her dream. When her family was struck by personal tragedies repe...
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Google Funds Raspberry Pi Donations of Computers to U.K. Students

Recently, Google and the Raspberry Pi Foundation have teamed up to provide up to 15,000 free skeleton computers to be available for secondary students in the United Kingdom. These computers will be given to students who show a ...
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Panama City Hosts Seminar on Education and Technology in Latin America

Today, Latin America recognizes that newer technologies can dynamically change their educational situations. Many governments have started paying heed to the power of information and communication technologies. They are interes...
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Panama’s IFARHU Initiates 2013 Scholarship Contest

The Institute for Training and Development of Human Resources (IFARHU) in the Republic of Panama launched its 2013 General Scholarship Contest on Monday, January 14. The application deadline is February 25. The IFARHU was esta...
by Mantra Roy
 
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At-risk Youth Create Rhythms with Their Rubbish Band in Paraguay

20 children living in a landfill just outside Asuncion, the capital city of Paraguay, now play Mozart, the Beatles, and Beethoven’s  rhythms on musical instruments made from recycled trash.  Favio Chavez, the music teac...
by Mantra Roy
 
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