Category Archives: Education

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Posted on October 15, 2011 by ChangeMaker

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Inside the world of child brides

Posted on October 5, 2011 by ChangeMaker

BBC presenter Nel Hedayat travels to India and Bangladesh, countries with two of the highest rates of child marriage, to chronicle what life is like to be one of the 10 million girls worldwide who are married off each year … Continue reading →

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Chad, Somalia are world’s worst places for a child to get sick

Posted on September 7, 2011 by ChangeMaker

A child’s survival depends on where he or she is born in the world. No mother should have to watch helplessly as her child grows sick and dies, simply because there is no one trained to help. World Leaders must … Continue reading →

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School lunch as a lifeline

Posted on September 5, 2011 by ChangeMaker

Either let through by the bigger children, or squeezing through unnoticed, many of the smallest were at the front when head teacher Habiba Mohamed Shuriye gave the order to serve the lunch. Their assortment of bowls, cups and jugs – … Continue reading →

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Aid agencies raise alarm over Somalia education

Posted on August 28, 2011 by ChangeMaker

Schools should be placed at the forefront of Somalia famine-relief efforts to avoid a second simultaneous crisis in education, UNICEF and other aid agencies say. Aid officials predict hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren will not return to school in September … Continue reading →

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