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  • Jenibell in school, in history class. The teacher is Jonalyn M. Corral.  Jenibell had to take several years out of education to work in the sugar cane field and to assist her mother at home looking after her younger siblings but she is now back in school. She walks 1/2 through sugar cane fields and ride 10 min on a tricycle to get to school for 7.45am. She lives near Victorias City in the state Negros Occidental. Laura Vicuña is a non-profit charity working in Manila and in Bacolod in the state Negros Occidental in the Philippines.Bacolod in the state Negros Occidental in the Philippines.
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  • Jenibell in school, in history class. The teacher is Jonalyn M. Corral.  Jenibell had to take several years out of education to work in the sugar cane field and to assist her mother at home looking after her younger siblings but she is now back in school. She walks 1/2 through sugar cane fields and ride 10 min on a tricycle to get to school for 7.45am. She lives near Victorias City in the state Negros Occidental. Laura Vicuña is a non-profit charity working in Manila and in Bacolod in the state Negros Occidental in the Philippines.
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  • In Ein El-Hilweh refugee camp, home to 75.000 Palestinians. Art class. It is summer break in the UNWRA school and Naba'a runs Play and Learn sessions in the empty school for vulnerable children. They aim is to give them a safe space to express themselves with out fear of repression. Developmental Action Without Borders(Naba'a) work in Palestinian refugee camps across Lebanon to help children in the camps.  The camps are densely over-crowded and many of the children are 4th generation refugees living in Lebanon with no citizenship or rights and under immense pressure. Naba'a is a mix of Palestinians and Lebanese and aim to give children a sense of security and freedom to express their needs and rights.Naba'a operates in communities governed by a multitude of political parties and religious groups and Naba'a keeps a strict independed line from any affiliation with any groups.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting Africa Educational Trust (AET) in Somaliland...Teacher Abdrachman at work in the small class room. The school is made of corrugated steel and has to cater for many more children than it has room for. Abdrachman and his 2 fellow teachers work in shifts so that all children get a chance to receive some education...AET runs schools in camps for Internally Displaced People in and around Hargeisa. The camps go back to the civil war in 1991 and some of the inhabitants have been there 20 years.  Others are new-comers from the countryside fleeing climate change which is causing live stock die and crops to fail - ultimately leading to starvation.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting Africa Educational Trust (AET) in Somaliland...An AET run school. The class is mixed boys and girls with all boys to the left and girls to the right..This small school is run by teacher Raxmaan. The students are all children of pastoralists, always move on with their families and the animals they depend on. Raxmaan and the school move where the children go and the teaching is done in a makeshift shelter. When it rains school has to be suspended because it rains through the straw roof and because heavy rain can prevent the children from coming to school because of swelling rivers. The children walk up to 7 km to get to school through the rough terrain, often alone after their parents have initially shown them the way. The children learn to read and write Somali, arithmetic's and Arabic. The schooling is free with all costs covered by African Educational Trust. Because the children are nomads they cannot go to regular school and many are illiterate when they start the course, which is planned to last for 3 years.
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  • Dulce Lopes gets the children warmed up with some singing and music in Alola's small premisses in a Dili suburb. The Alola Foundation provide pre-school play and learn sessions. Education in Timor-Lest is very basic with classes up to 80 children and teachers trained under an old fashioned system with very little inter-action between teacher and pupils..Fundasaun Alola is a not for profit non government organization operating in Timor Leste to improve the lives of women and children. Founded in 2001 by the then First Lady, Ms Kirsty Sword Gusmao, the organization seeks to nurture women leaders and advocate for the rights of women.
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  • Youths using computers in a workshop run by Nairobits. The workshop involves information various life skills such as love and relationships and sexual education. Nairobits is a charity teaching kids from Nairobi's slums It and train them to get work in the IT sector.Every year 1mill young people graduate and leave school and only 1/3 have any hope of getting a job. Nairobits aim to train more than 500 young people / year from the slums, some with only basic formal education, how to set up their own business or get a job in the growing IT sector in Kenya.
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  • Youths using computers in a workshop run by Nairobits. The workshop involves information various life skills such as love and relationships and sexual education. Nairobits is a charity teaching kids from Nairobi's slums It and train them to get work in the IT sector.Every year 1mill young people graduate and leave school and only 1/3 have any hope of getting a job. Nairobits aim to train more than 500 young people / year from the slums, some with only basic formal education, how to set up their own business or get a job in the growing IT sector in Kenya.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting Childline Kenya in Nairobi. ..At one of Childline Kenya's referral partners.  ..The help line number is 116, the first 3-digit only helpline number in Africa.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting the Kenya Society for the Blind.The Kenya Society for the Blind is a long standing charity which works to make blind people able to function in the community as a whole. They support children in schools and supply them with Braille writers, specialist teachers,glasses for visually impaired,counseling and other much needed tools. .Here one of the teachers interact through talk and touch with Steven, who is blind but goes to a regular school, Kalimani Primary School.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting Africa Educational Trust (AET) in Somaliland...Teacher Faysal teaching the children arithmetic's.  The school is made of corrugated steel and has to cater for many more children than it has room for. Faysal and his 2 fellow teachers work in shifts so that all children get a chance to receive some education...AET runs schools in camps for Internally Displaced People in and around Hargeisa. The camps go back to the civil war in 1991 and some of the inhabitants have been there 20 years.  Others are new-comers from the countryside fleeing climate change which is causing live stock die and crops to fail - ultimately leading to starvation.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting Africa Educational Trust (AET) in Somaliland...An AET-run school...This small school is run by teacher Raxmaan. The students are all children of pastoralists, always move on with their families and the animals they depend on. Raxmaan and the school move where the children go and the teaching is done in a makeshift shelter. When it rains school has to be suspended because it rains through the straw roof and because heavy rain can prevent the children from coming to school because of swelling rivers. The children walk up to 7 km to get to school through the rough terrain, often alone after their parents have initially shown them the way. The children learn to read and write Somali, arithmetic's and Arabic. The schooling is free with all costs covered by African Educational Trust. Because the children are nomads they cannot go to regular school and many are illiterate when they start the course, which is planned to last for 3 years.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting Africa Educational Trust (AET) in Somaliland...The small school in Bacado is run by teacher Suleiman Khalip. The students are children of pastoralists, always move on with their families and the animals they depend on. Suleiman and the school move where the children go and the teaching is done under a tree. When it rains school has to be suspended because the school has no roof and because heavy rain can cut off the children from coming to school because of swelling rivers. The children walk up to 7 km to get to school through the rough terrain, often alone after their parents have initially shown them the way. The children learn to read and write Somali, arithmetic's and Arabic. The schooling is free with all costs covered by African Educational Trust. Because the children are nomads they cannot go to regular school and many are illiterate when they start the course, which is planned to last for 3 years.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting Africa Educational Trust (AET) in Somaliland...The small school in Bacado is run by teacher Suleiman Khalip. The students are children of pastoralists, always move on with their families and the animals they depend on. Suleiman and the school move where the children go and the teaching is done under a tree. When it rains school has to be suspended because the school has no roof and because heavy rain can cut off the children from coming to school because of swelling rivers. The children walk up to 7 km to get to school through the rough terrain, often alone after their parents have initially shown them the way. The children learn to read and write Somali, arithmetic's and Arabic. The schooling is free with all costs covered by African Educational Trust. Because the children are nomads they cannot go to regular school and many are illiterate when they start the course, which is planned to last for 3 years.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting Africa Educational Trust (AET) in Somaliland...The small school in Bacado is run by teacher Suleiman Khalip. ..Here Muna from AET watches one of the students at work by the blackboard..The students are children of pastoralists, always move on with their families and the animals they depend on. Suleiman and the school move where the children go and the teaching is done under a tree. When it rains school has to be suspended because the school has no roof and because heavy rain can cut off the children from coming to school because of swelling rivers. The children walk up to 7 km to get to school through the rough terrain, often alone after their parents have initially shown them the way. The children learn to read and write Somali, arithmetic's and Arabic. The schooling is free with all costs covered by African Educational Trust. Because the children are nomads they cannot go to regular school and many are illiterate when they start the course, which is planned to last for 3 years.
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  • Young students in their final year at Nairobits. Nairobits is a charity teaching kids from Nairobi's slums IT and train them to get work in the IT sector.Every year 1mill young people graduate and leave school and only 1/3 have any hope of getting a job. Nairobits aim to train more than 500 young people / year from the slums, some with only basic formal education, how to set up their own business or get a job in the growing IT sector in Kenya.
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  • Carers of vulnerable children and EVA staff, Enock Nyakundi, a volunteer from Kenya work on a new constitution for the carer support group in rural Makurdi. EVA provide HCT in three rural communities near Makurdi in Benue state. Benue state has got one of the highest HIV prevalence in Nigeria and EVA aim to target vulnerable children who would otherwise miss out of being tested for HIV and therefor not know their HIV statues.  Education As a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria.
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  • In Ein El-Hilweh refugee camp, home to 75.000 Palestinians. Girls sing and dance. It is summer break in the UNWRA school and Naba'a runs Play and Learn sessions in the empty school for vulnerable children. They aim is to give them a safe space to express themselves with out fear of repression. Developmental Action Without Borders(Naba'a) work in Palestinian refugee camps across Lebanon to help children in the camps.  The camps are densely over-crowded and many of the children are 4th generation refugees living in Lebanon with no citizenship or rights and under immense pressure. Naba'a is a mix of Palestinians and Lebanese and aim to give children a sense of security and freedom to express their needs and rights.Naba'a operates in communities governed by a multitude of political parties and religious groups and Naba'a keeps a strict independed line from any affiliation with any groups.
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  • In Ein El-Hilweh refugee camp, home to 75.000 Palestinians. Boys practise run a dance play. It is summer break in the UNWRA school and Naba'a runs Play and Learn sessions in the empty school for vulnerable children. They aim is to give them a safe space to express themselves with out fear of repression. Developmental Action Without Borders(Naba'a) work in Palestinian refugee camps across Lebanon to help children in the camps.  The camps are densely over-crowded and many of the children are 4th generation refugees living in Lebanon with no citizenship or rights and under immense pressure. Naba'a is a mix of Palestinians and Lebanese and aim to give children a sense of security and freedom to express their needs and rights.Naba'a operates in communities governed by a multitude of political parties and religious groups and Naba'a keeps a strict independed line from any affiliation with any groups.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting the Kenya Society for the Blind.The Kenya Society for the Blind is a long standing charity which works to make blind people able to function in the community as a whole. They support children in schools and supply them with Braille writers, specialist teachers,glasses for visually impaired,counseling and other much needed tools. Nancy is visually impaired and needs very strong glasses, provided for by one of KSB's partners.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting Africa Educational Trust (AET) in Somaliland...Teacher Faysal is marking school work. The school is made of corrugated steel and has to cater for many more children than it has room for. Faysal and his 2 fellow teachers work in shifts so that all children get a chance to receive some education...AET runs schools in camps for Internally Displaced People in and around Hargeisa. The camps go back to the civil war in 1991 and some of the inhabitants have been there 20 years.  Others are new-comers from the countryside fleeing climate change which is causing live stock die and crops to fail - ultimately leading to starvation.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting Africa Educational Trust (AET) in Somaliland...Teacher Abdrachman at work in the small classroom. The school is made of corrugated steel and has to cater for many more children than it has room for. Abdrachman and his 2 fellow teachers work in shifts so that all children get a chance to receive some education...AET runs schools in camps for Internally Displaced People in and around Hargeisa. The camps go back to the civil war in 1991 and some of the inhabitants have been there 20 years.  Others are new-comers from the countryside fleeing climate change which is causing live stock die and crops to fail - ultimately leading to starvation.
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  • After school and the children are heading home.This small school is run by teacher Raxmaan. The students are all children of pastoralists, always move on with their families and the animals they depend on. Raxmaan and the school move where the children go and the teaching is done in a makeshift shelter. When it rains school has to be suspended because it rains through the straw roof and because heavy rain can prevent the children from coming to school because of swelling rivers. The children walk up to 7 km to get to school through the rough terrain, often alone after their parents have initially shown them the way. The children learn to read and write Somali, arithmetic's and Arabic. The schooling is free with all costs covered by African Educational Trust. Because the children are nomads they cannot go to regular school and many are illiterate when they start the course, which is planned to last for 3 years.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting Africa Educational Trust (AET) in Somaliland...An AET-run school...This small school is run by teacher Raxmaan. The students are all children of pastoralists, always move on with their families and the animals they depend on. Raxmaan and the school move where the children go and the teaching is done in a makeshift shelter. When it rains school has to be suspended because it rains through the straw roof and because heavy rain can prevent the children from coming to school because of swelling rivers. The children walk up to 7 km to get to school through the rough terrain, often alone after their parents have initially shown them the way. The children learn to read and write Somali, arithmetic's and Arabic. The schooling is free with all costs covered by African Educational Trust. Because the children are nomads they cannot go to regular school and many are illiterate when they start the course, which is planned to last for 3 years.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting Africa Educational Trust (AET) in Somaliland...The small school in Bacado is run by teacher Suleiman Khalip. The students are children of pastoralists, always move on with their families and the animals they depend on. Suleiman and the school move where the children go and the teaching is done under a tree. When it rains school has to be suspended because the school has no roof and because heavy rain can cut off the children from coming to school because of swelling rivers. The children walk up to 7 km to get to school through the rough terrain, often alone after their parents have initially shown them the way. The children learn to read and write Somali, arithmetic's and Arabic. The schooling is free with all costs covered by African Educational Trust. Because the children are nomads they cannot go to regular school and many are illiterate when they start the course, which is planned to last for 3 years.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting AET in Somaliland.The small school  i Bacaoo is run by teacher Suleiman Khalip. The students are all children of pastorialists and they always move on with their family and the animals they live of. Suleiman and the school move where the children goe and the teaching is done iunder a tree. When it raisn school has to be suspended tbecause the school has no roof and because heavy rain can cut off the children from coming to school because of swelling rivers. The children walk up to 7 km to get to school through the rough terain, often alone after their parents have initailly shown them the way. The children learn to read and write Somali, arthmetics and Arabic. The schooling is free all costs covered by African Educational Trust. Because the children are nomads they cant go to regular school and many are illiterate when they start the course which is planned to last for 3 years.
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From the series 'Portraits of 5.C - a class photo in a time of Corona anno 2020.'  The portraits were taken during the lock-down and were taken in the door of their homes at a safe distance and without entering the house. At the time of taking the portraits no-one knew what to expect and most of Denmark is still under special measures.<br />
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Their school is a good school with lots of social life and activities. Every year Year 5 put on a musical for the whole school and parents - this year the musical was based on the story of Robin Hood.<br />
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However, this year the performances were abruptly cut short when Statsminister Mette Frederiksen called for a lock-down of the country including the closure of all schools, and a ban on all larger gatherings because of the spreading Corona Virus. All of a sudden all the kids were asked to stay at home, in isolation, and the school was left lying empty and silent.<br />
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The kids have had to make sense out of this and create a daily life of their own, away from their friends. For weeks all teaching and homework has been done online, in living rooms, in kitchens or alone in their rooms. Every so often the kids of 5.C have met online with each other and their teachers but physically most of them haven’t met for almost 4 weeks. <br />
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The schools have now partly opened and the children of 5.C are now back in school. Rigorous hand washing is required and so is social distancing. Every class is divided into two class rooms to create enough distance and only one or two teachers can teach the class.
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  • Halfdan.<br />
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From the series 'Portraits of 5.C - a class photo in a time of Corona anno 2020.'  The portraits were taken during the lock-down and were taken in the door of their homes at a safe distance and without entering the house. At the time of taking the portraits no-one knew what to expect and most of Denmark is still under special measures.<br />
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Their school is a good school with lots of social life and activities. Every year Year 5 put on a musical for the whole school and parents - this year the musical was based on the story of Robin Hood.<br />
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However, this year the performances were abruptly cut short when Statsminister Mette Frederiksen called for a lock-down of the country including the closure of all schools, and a ban on all larger gatherings because of the spreading Corona Virus. All of a sudden all the kids were asked to stay at home, in isolation, and the school was left lying empty and silent.<br />
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The kids have had to make sense out of this and create a daily life of their own, away from their friends. For weeks all teaching and homework has been done online, in living rooms, in kitchens or alone in their rooms. Every so often the kids of 5.C have met online with each other and their teachers but physically most of them haven’t met for almost 4 weeks. <br />
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The schools have now partly opened and the children of 5.C are now back in school. Rigorous hand washing is required and so is social distancing. Every class is divided into two class rooms to create enough distance and only one or two teachers can teach the class.
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  • School children enjoy their first day back in school after 4 weeks of corona lock-down, April 17th 2020,  Denmark. All schools and much of Denmark including it's borders were shut Monday March 16th by the Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen to prevent the corona virus from spreading beyond control. All school children had to stay at home if possible during the lock-down and many had not seen their friends through-out the 4 weeks it lasted. All teaching was done at home and via online services such as Google Meet and to many time was difficult to pass. Only year 0-5 are now allowed back in school and only under special measures. Classes are split in twos and across two rooms, everyone must wash hands rigorously when they leave and enter the class and the children must observe distance when possible. The children are put together in groups of no more than three and they are the only ones they get to work  and play with. Break time has to be in designated areas only and only with class mates.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting the Kenya Society for the Blind.The Kenya Society for the Blind is a long standing charity which works to make blind people able to function in the community as a whole. They support children in schools and supply them with Braille writers, specialist teachers,glasses for visually impaired,counseling and other much needed tools. Simon is visually impaired but is attending regular class.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting the Kenya Society for the Blind.The Kenya Society for the Blind is a long standing charity which works to make blind people able to function in the community as a whole. They support children in schools and supply them with Braille writers, specialist teachers,glasses for visually impaired,counseling and other much needed tools. Edwin is working his maths in class. Ewin is blind but goes to a regular school, the Kalimani Primary School. Here he is using an abacus as a means to work out his maths.
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  • Class 2 have their work checked by teacher Sunjana.The Good Weave Foundation runs a rehabiltation centre in Kathmandu, Nepal, for children they have rescued from the carpet factories. Most of the chilren are illiterate and GWF provide the children with education based on their abillities.
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  • Jenibell in school, in history class. The teacher is Jonalyn M. Corral.  Jenibell had to take several years out of education to work in the sugar cane field and to assist her mother at home looking after her younger siblings but she is now back in school. She walks 1/2 through sugar cane fields and ride 10 min on a tricycle to get to school for 7.45am. She lives near Victorias City in the state Negros Occidental. Laura Vicuña is a non-profit charity working in Manila and in Bacolod in the state Negros Occidental in the Philippines.Bacolod in the state Negros Occidental in the Philippines.
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  • Students in class. The Alternative Learning System (ALS) Program - provides working children with an alternative to finish either elementary or secondary education without undertaking activities in the formal school system.  ALS students are provided with self-learning modules, which they go through at their own pace.  Their progress is monitored by program staff when they visit the CDRTC once a week..Casa Maria Ausilitrice Laura Vicuña Women Development and Training Centre in Victorias City, Negros Occidental. Laura Vicuña is a non-profit charity working in Manila and in Bacolod in the state Negros Occidental in the Philippines.
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  • Class 0, pre-school. Young children from Hamro Ghar rehabilitation centre learn English and the alphabet. Children come to the rehabilitation centre when found to be working in uncertified carpet factories. Kidnapped or sold in to the industry, these children will have faced working days of up to 18 hours, and been subjected to malnutrition and impaired vision. At the rehabilitation centre, they are given access to education, vocational training, and recreation. .
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting the Kenya Society for the Blind.The Kenya Society for the Blind is a long standing charity which works to make blind people able to function in the community as a whole. They support children in schools and supply them with Braille writers, specialist teachers,glasses for visually impaired,counseling and other much needed tools. .Three blind and visullay impaired girls at Kalimani Primary School, a regular school in which the girls attend regular class. The girls are friends and waiting to go on a tour to a local college to give a talk and read poems about their lives.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting the Kenya Society for the Blind.The Kenya Society for the Blind is a long standing charity which works to make blind people able to function in the community as a whole. They support children in schools and supply them with Braille writers, specialist teachers,glasses for visually impaired,counseling and other much needed tools. Nicole, who has recently become totally blind is reading Braille but otherwise attending a regular class at the Kalimani Primary School.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting Action in the Community Environment (ACE) in Bungoma, Kenya...Proud students at Mabanga Primary School after IT class. ..Mabanga Primary School Child To Child club where the children are learning IT and life skills. Hardly any of the children have ever seen a computer or laptop not to mention used one. Here the children learn using a simple word programme, typing up text provided by the teachers running the work-shop. The text is about HIV/AIDS and through that the children also get to learn about HIV/AIDS and what that means. They also record themselves singing and get to play back the recordings so that they see themselves perform on video just made, which to many was an amazing experience.  ACE helped facilitate the donation of laptops from the charity Hands of Charity.
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  • Douaa teaches the kids English after they have returned from work. The class room also funtions as her bed room which she share with the rest of her family.<br />
Douaa is from Sayeda Zeinab City in Syria. She was a geology student but had to leave Zeinab City with her family when the war came to their town. She lives with her father and siblings in a disused school in the Bekaa Valley. Douaa was doing nothing till she decided to get all the children living in the school together and began teaching them Englsih and Maths. All the fighters in Syria are students, doctors, engineers etc so it will be up to the young refugees to rebuild Syria when they return and all the able bodied men have died in the war according to Douaa.
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  • The Nepal Good Weave Foundation work to get all children out of the carpet industry in Nepal. Biraj is skipping with his new firends in the home. He is 11 years old. Biraj was found and rescued by NGF inspectors in a carpet factory and is now a student and resident at the GWF rehabilitation school and home. He has been living in the transit home for the last 2 weeks. He is from a rural village 600km away from Kathmandu where his family is still living. He came with the brother of his brother in law to the factory. He worked there for 2 weeks to send money to his parents before he was identified by a NRF inspector. He calls his parents regularly from the center but has trouble reaching them because of poor network reception in his home village...Biraj says he is feeling happy in the center. He is now in Class 1 and learning more and more every day. He did not know he was taken to a factory at the time, he felt very surprised when he arrived. He wanted to go back home but his relative would not listen to him.  In the morning, he had to take care of the babies of the carpet workers and had to weave the carpets himself in the afternoon...When he becomes older, Biraj wants to become a policeman to catch thieves.
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  • The Good Weave  Foundation runs a rehabiltation centre for children they have rescued from the carpet factories. Most of the chilren are illiterate and GWF   provide the children with education based on their abillities. Class 2 having their work checked by teacher Sunjana.
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  • BA Futuru means "for the sake of the future" in Tetun, the national language in Timor Leste. BA Futuru grew out of the fightings in 2006 where civil unrest and infighting between police and army caused massive damages and thousands of killed. BA Futuru wants to prevent future conflicts through training children, youths and authorities like staff at schools and police in conflict resolution. A class in public speaking and practising in job interview techniques.
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  • BA Futuru means "for the sake of the future" in Tetun, the national language in Timor Leste. BA Futuru grew out of the fightings in 2006 where civil unrest and infighting between police and army caused massive damages and thousands of killed. BA Futuru wants to prevent future conflicts through training children, youths and authorities like staff at schools and police in conflict resolution. This class high school students have been through 4 days of conflict resolution workshop run by Ba Futuro. Raul is explaining how it has changed their every day at school, they no longer fear their teachers and they can now manage their own conflicts better, also at home in the community. Judith Maria de Sousa, trainer.
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  • BA Futuru means "for the sake of the future" in Tetun, the national language in Timor Leste. BA Futuru grew out of the fightings in 2006 where civil unrest and infighting between police and army caused massive damages and thousands of killed. BA Futuru wants to prevent future conflicts through training children, youths and authorities like staff at schools and police in conflict resolution. This class high school students have been through 4 days of conflict resolution workshop run by Ba Futuro. Raul is explaining how it has chenged their every day at school, they no longer fear their teachers and they can now manage their own conflicts better, also at home in the community.
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  • The Nepal Good Weave Foundation work to get all children out of the carpet industry in Nepal. The Good Weave  Foundation runs a rehabiltation centre for children they have rescued from the carpet factories. Most of the chilren are illiterate and GWF  provide the children with education based on their abillities. Class 2 having their work checked by teacher Sunjana.
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  • Alaa arrived in Beirut from Damascus 25.12.12. He used to run a very well established dance company, SIMA. in Syria with 40 dancers performing all over the country and at international festivals. When he first arrived to Lebanon he had nothing but has since managed to gather some of the old Sima dancers and has set up a dance school for both Syrian and Lebanese. He runs SIma and the classes out of Babel Theatre in Hamra, Beirut and Sima is in the run to win Arabs Have Talent, a tv talent show.
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  • Alaa arrived in Beirut from Damascus 25.12.12. He used to run a very well established dance company, SIMA. in Syria with 40 dancers performing all over the country and at international festivals. When he first arrived to Lebanon he had nothing but has since managed to gather some of the old Sima dancers and has set up a dance school for both Syrian and Lebanese. He runs SIma and the classes out of Babel Theatre in Hamra, Beirut and Sima is in the run to win Arabs Have Talent, a tv talent show.
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  • Boys spending their afternoon with Alola. Children are usually not allowed to act on their own but here the boys can give their crocodiles any colour they like. The Alola Foundation provide pre-school play and learn sessions. Education in Timor-Leste is very basic with classes up to 80 children and teachers trained under an old fashined system with very little inter-action between teacher and pupils..Fundasaun Alola is a not for profit non government organization operating in Timor Leste to improve the lives of women and children. Founded in 2001 by the then First Lady, Ms Kirsty Sword Gusmao, the organization seeks to nurture women leaders and advocate for the rights of women.
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  • Dulce Lopes reads an animal picture book to the children and asks them to make the sounds of each creature and through this game the children learn about the animals of the world. The Alola Foundation provide pre-school play and learn sessions. Education in Timor-Leste is very basic with classes up to 80 children and teachers trained under an old fashined system with very little inter-action between teacher and pupils..Fundasaun Alola is a not for profit non government organization operating in Timor Leste to improve the lives of women and children. Founded in 2001 by the then First Lady, Ms Kirsty Sword Gusmao, the organization seeks to nurture women leaders and advocate for the rights of women.
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  • The Alola Foundation provide pre-school play and learn sessions. Education in Timor-Leste is very basic with classes up to 80 children and teachers trained under an old fashined system with very little inter-action between teacher and pupils..Fundasaun Alola is a not for profit non government organization operating in Timor Leste to improve the lives of women and children. Founded in 2001 by the then First Lady, Ms Kirsty Sword Gusmao, the organization seeks to nurture women leaders and advocate for the rights of women.
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  • Dulce Lopes teach children counting and arithmetics through playing with  string with coloured beads. The Alola Foundation provide pre-school play and learn sessions. Education in Timor-Leste is very basic with classes up to 80 children and teachers trained under an old fashined system with very little inter-action between teacher and pupils..Fundasaun Alola is a not for profit non government organization operating in Timor Leste to improve the lives of women and children. Founded in 2001 by the then First Lady, Ms Kirsty Sword Gusmao, the organization seeks to nurture women leaders and advocate for the rights of women.
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  • Joanina Quintao reads a picture book with animals with a small boy. Joanina is a newly graduated teacher who believes in interaction with children and learning through play. The Alola Foundation provide pre-school play and learn sessions. Education in Timor-Leste is very basic with classes up to 80 children and teachers trained under an old fashined system with very little inter-action between teacher and pupils..Fundasaun Alola is a not for profit non government organization operating in Timor Leste to improve the lives of women and children. Founded in 2001 by the then First Lady, Ms Kirsty Sword Gusmao, the organization seeks to nurture women leaders and advocate for the rights of women.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting Action in the Community Environment (ACE) in Bungoma, Kenya...Girls who are all taking part in child-to-child (CTC) workshops learning life skills and how to grow their own vegetables. The girls either grow them at the school, like this patch of Managu or at home to supplement their daily food. Some of the girls get very little food at home and ACE in collaboration with the school try to give the girls access to nutritious food. Managu (Kikuyu) is a vegetable rich in vitamin C and iron..Here a group of girls from the CTC classes perform a song about HIV and how to protect themselves.
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