A Creative Approach to Counter Bullying in a School in Iran

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A Creative Approach to Counter Bullying in a School in Iran

A teacher in Iran shaved his head to show solidarity to a student who was being bullied after losing hair due to an illness. Ali Mohammadian, a teacher at Sheikh Shaltoot’s elementary school in the Kurdistan Province of Mariv...

by Nashrah Ahmed

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African Refugees Find Asylum in Irseal

There are approximately 55,000 African asylum seekers who have ventured from various countries to Israel in search of safety to escape violence in their native lands. However, once arriving in Israel, often their legal status...

by Ashleigh Brown

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Educational Community Center Increases Opportunities for Sri Lankan Students

Rainbow Bridge is a community education center situated in Batticaloa, on the East coast of the island of Sri lanka. Sri Lanka is an island racked with the consequences of a 30 year long civil war, which caused a rift between t...

by Ashleigh Brown

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Zambian Children Make Connections Through iSchool

Zambian children are gaining access to education and curriculum through an “e-learning,” curriculum provided via the latest internet resources. This is possible as a result of expanding internet access and emerging ...

by Melody Chiang

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Children of Migrant In China Workers Vulnerable But Not Forgotten

China’s growing migrant worker population is leaving a generation of “left-behind children” vulnerable. Migrant Children’s Foundation (MCF), created in 2009, wants to make sure these children are more than statistics. M...

by Melody Chiang

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Pakistan’s Burka Avenger to Fight for Girls’ Right to Education

Pakistan’s newest animated series will star the Burka Avenger, a compassionate teacher who combats gangsters trying to close down the girls’ school in which she works. The show portrays this avenger as a burka-wearing nin...

by Aanchal Narang

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Environmental Protection and Philanthropy at Work in Kosovo Cap Project

In December 2011, students at the American University of Kosovo launched a humanitarian project aimed at helping those who need but can’t afford a wheelchair. Originally, the idea for “caps for wheelchairs” project came f...

by Aldina Dzebo

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Gift of Music for At-Risk Youth in El Salvador

El Salvador has launched a music education program as part of a violence prevention project. The program seeks to keep youth from engaging in violent street gangs and other illegal activities by offering alternatives for at-r...

by Melody Chiang

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Roma Children Create Art With Hungary’s “Real Pearl” Foundation

At the Igazgyöngy (“Real Pearl”) Foundation in Eastern Hungary, hundreds of Roma children learn to express themselves through art classes. The Real Pearl Foundation runs drawing, painting, sculpture, handiwork, and dancing...

by Carla Drumhiller

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Teach for Bangladesh: Inspiring Educational Leadership

Teach for Bangladesh is a leadership development program of talented university graduates and young professionals who are invested in expanding educational opportunities for underprivileged children. Taking a bottoms-up appro...

by Alice Formwalt

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SwimSafe Project Prevents Child Drowning in Asia

Drowning is the third leading cause of unintentional injury death worldwide. About 95% of child drowning deaths occur in Asia, where at least 350,000 children are believed to drown each year. Although swim safety serves is one ...

by Alice Formwalt

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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 ...

by Mantra Roy

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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...

by Mantra Roy

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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...

by Mantra Roy

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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...

by Mantra Roy

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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...

by Mantra Roy

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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...

by Alice Formwalt

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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 ...

by Mantra Roy

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