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June 30, 2016

Reversing the Tragedies of the Pristine Valleys: The Revolutionary Walk, Taking a Child to School in Swat, Pakistan

Today, Swat is hardly known for its breathtaking landscape. Instead it makes headlines for a violent insurgency and bans on girls’ education. Rebuilding Swat is a monumental task.…

June 30, 2016

Educate A Child and the UNHCR Work Together to Build a Better Future for Refugee Children in Chad

She snaps off peanut pods by day. “This work is exhausting,” she says. “I’d rather be in school, but classes started months ago. Every year I miss half…

June 28, 2016

Making quality education a reality for children in Chad

There is a magic tree on one of the streets of Moundou, in southern Chad. It may not look magical or even special through everyone’s eyes, but to…

January 24, 2016

School of Wisdom and Knowledge

Tulsi could never have imagined reaching this point in her life had she not attended the Gyan Shala school from grades 1 to 7. Gyan Shala, which means…

January 24, 2016

A new photo book keeps focus on out of school children

Entitled Challenges & Reality, the volume contains a new collection of images of out of school children by photographer Maher Attar. “The stirring photo reportage in this new…

January 24, 2016

Restoring hope to learn

Hamdi is one of six children. Her parents divorced and abandoned her and her siblings when she was six years old. This was shortly after they had fled…

November 14, 2015

Educate A Child and Gonoshahajjo Sangstha (GSS) in Bangladesh

Schools in remote rural areas or urban slums in Bangladesh understandably run short on resources and struggle to keep children in school long enough to reap the benefits…

October 14, 2015

Building Tomorrow

Through a partnership between Educate a Child (EAC) and Building Tomorrow (BT), more than 51,000 children will benefit from increased access to a quality education throughout rural Uganda.…

August 14, 2015

Bridging the education gaps for Palestinian refugee children of Syria

The 67,000 Palestinian refugee students enrolled in UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency) schools before the crisis have not been spared. UNRWA was established in 1949 to…

July 15, 2015

Educate A Child and Save the Children

For the approximately 377,000 migrant and 30,000 refugee children in Thailand and more than 400,000 ethnic Karen children in Myanmar, many barriers stand in the way of a…

June 14, 2015

Educate A Child and CARE support Partners for Learning

Haitians place a genuinely high value on education. But often poverty forces families to make tough decisions about how they spend their very limited resources. In Haiti, thousands…

May 14, 2015

EAC in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

Nearly 60% of the DRC’s 3.6 million people live on less than US$1.25 a day, orphans make up approximately 10.7% of all children under 18, and chronic malnutrition,…

"Humanity will not overcome the immense challenges we face unless we ensure that children get the quality education that equips them to play their part in the modern world." -- HH Sheikha Moza bint Nasser