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Monday, October 5, 2015

A Child Friendly Space provides relief for refugee children in Serbia

On October 4th, World Vision, together with UNICEF, opened a Child Friendly Space (CFS) for refugees crossing at the Bapska border between Serbia and Croatia. In CFS, children are able to spend time playing and drawing, while mothers were provided with space to breast-feed and rest."It is very important to have space for women and children where they can have protection and privacy as well as some normalcy," said Weihui Wang, World Vision's Child Protection and Participation Lead in Serbia.

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12 Incredible journeys to school

How did you get to primary school?A yellow school bus, a stroll down the sidewalk, or a ride from mom or dad?What about by horse or boat?Access to education is a major challenge in Asia and the Pacific. In remote villages, schools are often far away and difficult to reach. The distance from home to school is one of the reasons that 26.3 million children are out of school in Asia and the Pacific says UNESCO.

September 4th 2015

Addisu moves from ‘not knowing to knowing’ at a Literacy Boost reading club

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Safe place for children affected by Nepal quake

It's critically important to quickly provide a safe place for children who have suffered due to a disaster. World Vision has opened its first Child Friendly Space in Kathmandu following the Nepal earthquake and the children show us how resilient they can be!

April 30th 2015

Dariel will go far: How sponsorship and education has helped a child and her family in Ecuador

April 15th 2015

A gift from the heart

October 15th 2014

Education is more precious than gold

Jestoni, 18, used to shovel mud and bend over a large pan in search of a tiny speck of gold. When he was 14 years old, he was engaged in a small-scale mining – searching for gold smaller than the size of a rice grain.

October 19th 2012

A new dream through education

August 19th 2012

Zambia becomes first country in Africa to adopt MEQA to track progress for Unlock Literacy programme

Featured Image: Community reading club volunteer, Jenara Mumbulu, listens to and helps Lightwell, 10, with his reading at a World Vision's reading camp in Zambia. (Photo credit: Laura Reinhardt / World Vision).

It takes a village to teach children to read

Featured Image: Community reading club volunteer, Jenara Mumbulu, listens to and helps Lightwell, 10, with his reading at a World Vision's reading camp in Zambia. (Photo credit: Laura Reinhardt / World Vision). By Kari Costanza, World Vision US An outbreak of reading increases education Lightwell, 10, is not yet sponsored, but he still gets to attend World Vision’s Unlock Literacy reading club, held on weekends. Lightwell goes everywhere with a book in his hand.

Mother and infant at Go Baby Go training in Haiti

Go Baby Go: Laying a strong foundation for learning in Haiti

February 26th 2019

Supporting mother language learning and life skills in Guatemala

February 21st 2019

Child holds mother language book

The Alphabet Song

By Nissi Thapa, World Vision NepalA curious-looking boy stands up in front of twenty children. “Kapuri ka, kharayo kha, gaigorey ga…,” he reads loudly. The others repeat after him.The boy is Jhalak, a third grader from Sindhuli, who is reciting the Nepali alphabet song. “It is my favourite song as it’s simple,” he says, showing a colourful book from which he learnt the song.

February 20th 2019

Elijah reads to children at a World Vision reading camp in Ghana

Bringing mother language education home

February 20th 2019

Young refugee girl gets an education despite the odds

Changing my future by choosing education

By: Sunha Hwang, WVI Basic Education Atlas Corps Fellow “I want to go to an academic high school, not a vocational school.”I still remember the moment that I spoke to my parents about my desire to pursue a secondary education.When the International Monetary Fund (IMF) economic crisis occurred in 1997, the majority of people in South Korea were struggling with financial difficulties.

The audacity of educating children for life

March 27th 2017

The importance of learning to read in my mother language

February 16th 2017

Making education safe for all

I stood at the front of a training room in West Africa, trying to moderate a heated discussion between some veteran teachers on how best to manage children in a classroom. In a workshop on reading skills, teachers began to express their frustration in trying to maintain class control for long enough to get kids to focus on their reading activities. According to them, behaviour management was an issue. Large class size was an issue. Getting kids to pay attention was an issue. So we began to strategise and brainstorm.

November 29th 2016

International Day of the Girl Child

International Day of the Girl Child: Getting girls in the classroom and keeping them there

October 11th 2016

Tizta, 9, reads a story to her family outside their home in Ethiopia

The power of story telling for teaching and learning

October 6th 2016

Happy World Teachers' Day!

October 5 is World Teachers' Day! Together with schools and ministries of education around the globe, World Vision helps to train teachers in good teaching methods so that children are better able to learn in the classroom. In 2015, World Vision trained over 91,000 teachers in 31 countries. Happy World Teachers' Day to all of the teachers helping educate children for life!

October 4th 2016

What's your favourite book?

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September 7th 2016

Hannah from Ghana proudly displays her favourite book

International Literacy Day turns 50!

September 7th 2016

Early Childhood Development: “The education vaccine.”

By Ted Neill, Early Childhood Care and Development Specialist, World Vision It was at an early childhood development (ECD) conference that I first heard a speaker describe ECD programmes as the “education vaccine”. He could not actually recall where he had first heard the phrase himself, but it had stuck with him. It stuck with me too. In the years since, I have found myself sharing the same notion with colleagues at education conferences and ECD symposiums the world over.

September 2nd 2016