Notes from Archie Law, CEO of ActionAid Australia
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Imagine being a young child and turning up to school to find it riddled with bullet holes, doors ripped from the hinges and your school work littering the playground.
This is what children like Wahid (pictured) faced last year after a 28 day war between Israel and Hamas. One year after the conflict, the children are struggling to regain a sense of normality.
Wahid picks up what is left of her project work from the rubble
Before Leya Chede, 47, joined ActionAid’s adult literacy Reflect program, she would have been too shy to even meet a stranger coming to her house. Now she is an elected local councillor, representing women’s issues in the local government in the Palisa district in Kampala, Uganda.
Leya Chede photographed at her turkey rearing house with some goats.
Tags: actionaid, Education, Uganda, women's rights
Education is one of the best ways for people to lift themselves out of poverty, and a powerful weapon in the fight against AIDS. Education is often seen as a privilege. It is not. It is one of many human rights that poor people are denied every day.
Eight year old Sima during lessons in class three of a government primary school in Chandpur, Bangladesh
However, 72 million children in the world’s poorest countries – 57% of them girls – are denied a primary education while around 750 million adults are considered illiterate.
Tags: actionaid, Bangladesh, Education, global campaign for education, Pakistan, South Africa, Tanzania
