When Elysee tells refugee children not to give up hope – that a better future is possible – he speaks from harrowing personal experience. A quarter of a...
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World Food Day: Why young people are leading the way to #zerohunger
Today, World Food Day, we celebrate young people tacking malnutrition. This speech to the UN was made by youth leader Florence Sibomana from Rwanda.
Meet Diogene: the male midwife
Being a midwife is not just a job to 30-year-old Diogene, who works at a maternity ward that our teams built and equipped in Mahama Refugee Camp, Rwanda....
Rwanda: International acclaim for our education work
During a visit to Rwanda to attend the Africa regional meeting on Education for All, former Australian Prime Minister and Chair of the Global Partnership for...
Rwanda: “Telling stories opens children’s minds”
On 10 September, around 40 preschoolers and their parents were in Rugasari ECCD centre in Ruhango district, Rwanda, discovering new ways to enjoy reading. There...
First Read: laying the foundations for literacy
Fewer than 20% of children in the developing world have access to early childhood care and education services. Yet there is overwhelming evidence that early...
Rwanda: Remembering the past while looking to the future
Yesterday in Kigali thousands of Rwandan youth came together to march from the Parliament building to the national stadium in remembrance of the victims of the...
Rwanda: After the genocide 20 years ago, we said ‘never again’. Did we mean it?
Two decades ago, the world watched in horror as Rwanda was pulled apart by a brutal genocide. The international community, burned by a failed intervention in...
Rwanda: polaroid archive a documentation of country’s lost children
We recently re-opened an incredible archive at our office in Kigali, Rwanda: thousands of Polaroid images, documenting children whose lives – in 1994 - were...
Securing children’s right to read
Saturday 8 September is World Literacy Day, which seems like a particularly appropriate occassion to set out our plans to turn around the global learning crisis...