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International Literacy Day: peace is the word

Friday 7 September 2012Thursday 26 April 2018 by Save the Children

Saturday 8 September marks the worldwide celebration of International Literacy Day. In a ceremony hosted by UNESCO, this year’s theme will focus on the...

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A case worker reads to a group of children.

Breaking the cycle of crisis

Tuesday 7 August 2012Tuesday 10 July 2018 by Joseph Nhan-O'Reilly

Almost half of the 61 million of the world’s out of school children live in fragile states with weak institutional capacity, poor governance, political...

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Reaching the Hardest To Reach: Giving Aid to Afghanistan

Thursday 22 March 2012Thursday 22 March 2012 by Jessica Espey

A new report from the UK's aid watchdog highlights some important issues about the difficulty of delivering aid to conflict affected and fragile states. DFID...

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Global Monitoring report: Education can’t Wait

Tuesday 1 March 2011Tuesday 1 March 2011 by Elin Martinez

The Global Monitoring Report (GMR) on Education for All launched today. This report gives an up-to-date review of the state of education worldwide. This...

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Liberia: build roads, but build education too

Wednesday 2 February 2011Friday 4 February 2011 by Elin Martinez

After the war, people demanded that education, health and roads be placed at the top of the government’s agenda. This was the background to ‘lift Liberia’...

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Fair’s fair, wherever you’re born

Tuesday 25 January 2011Thursday 27 January 2011 by Nick Martlew

It shouldn’t matter whether you’re born in a country that features large in the UK Government’s national security radar, or you’re born in a country...

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Sierra Leone: ‘Sen u pikindem na skul. Dis fo change!’

Tuesday 11 January 2011Thursday 10 March 2011 by Elin Martinez

I asked a colleague in Freetown to translate ‘Send your children to school, this is for change’ and the result, in Krio, is the title of this blog. I spent...

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Rewrite the Future awarded for innovation – but more still needs to be done

Friday 19 November 2010Thursday 9 December 2010 by Elin Martinez

This week we celebrated the news that Save the Children is a 2010 laureate for the WISE Education awards, for its Rewrite the Future campaign. Rewrite the...

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