Child's Education and training 

Quality education and training are key to a successful future. We help ensure that children’s fundamental right to education is met and young people are prepared to live independent lives.

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Early Childhood Development – Indoors work

Child-Centred education

No child should miss quality education or training that address their individual needs and circumstances so they can develop their potential. We work with families, communities and partners to ensure that each child has access to education and training that respect and support every child’s talents, capability and needs

Opening doors to education

Every child has a right to education. Yet millions of children worldwide are denied their right and are excluded from quality education. Children without parental care or at risk of losing it are particularly vulnerable to missing out on education and training
Education is a fundamental and enabling human right. It is also a family affair. Children’s readiness to lean and their ability to reach their full potential are fostered by secure attachments in a caring family environment.
One-in-ten of the world’s 2.2 billion children have lost, or risk losing, the care of their first teachers – their parents.
Such children and young people are often deprived of a stable, nurturing and stimulating environment necessary for their development in early childhood. They are also disproportionately excluded from the formal education system and left unprepared to enter the labor market as young adult 

Risk Factors

  • Child Poverty
    An estimated 569 million children in developing countries must get by on less than £ 1.25 per day (Unicef, 2014). Extreme poverty is a stress factor, which affects family stability and parents’ ability to pay for school fees, uniforms and books, or provide other educational support to their children.
  • Domestic Violence
    Approximately 275 million children grow up with violence in the home (Unicef 2009). Child victims of violence are more likely to have literacy and numeracy problems. They are at higher risk of absenteeism and dropping out of or frequently changing schools (Unicef 2014).
  • Emergencies
    Children in conflict –affected countries represent 20% of the world’s primary school are children. But 50% of the out-of-school children (UIS and Unicef, 2015). Trauma and disruption in education in education caused by natural disasters and armed conflict put children at risk of permanently falling behind their peers
  • Discrimination
    Without the care and protection of a parent, children are more likely to be discriminated against, based on social status, gender, disability or ethnic background. Girls are generally more vulnerable to gender discrimination. An estimated 43% of the world’s out-of-school children will never go to school.
  • Child Labor, abuse and exploitation
    Girls are especially vulnerable to abuse and exploitation, early marriage, and adolescent pregnancy. Boys may be forced to become child soldiers or do hazardous child labor. Such abuses and exploitation deprive children of the right to go to school and develop as children.
  • Disease
    Serious illness or disease such as HIV/Aids in the family can force children, especially girls, to take on household responsibilities at the expenses of their education.

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