Topic: Education

In many places around the world, CARE works with children and youth to promote education and participation. Now, CARE has started an initiative in Germany for young refugees. Marie Pieper, is doing a volunteer year at CARE’s media and communications department and tells about the beginnings of the project

Ghozlan, 10, was displaced with her family in Syria for one year before coming to Jordan in October 2012. The family spent two months in Zaa’tari refugee camp but was able to receive an official “bailout” after several family members encountered health problems including Ghozlan, who suffered from hepatitis

Martin Kamel, is a young man in his early twenties who grew up in Minya. He, as many youth living in Upper Egypt, started to take family responsibilities at an early age.

On October 9, two days before the first-ever International Day of the Girl, 15-year-old Malala Yousafzai was shot on her way home from school in Pakistan. She regained consciousness on October 16 but faces a long road to recovery.

The parents of Léogâne’s Mellier community have a long history of banding together to help one another. In the chaos that enveloped Haiti following the departure of the ruling Duvalier family in 1987, a group of parents in Mellier formed the Association of Parents of Mellier (ASPAM), a PTA-like association to make sure their kids’ schooling continued without interruption

Zeinab Abdillahi, 23, was born in the village of Ina Cunaaye, Somaliland. She and her eight younger siblings were delivered by a traditional birth attendant in their parents’ two-room stick and papyrus hut. Ina Cunaaye is poor and remote, and with droughts for most of the year water is precious and people sometimes have to search for miles to find it. Many families like Zeinab’s struggle to feed their children.

KENYA, DADAAB (August 11, 2011) – As the influx of Somali refugees across the border to Kenya is increasing every day, CARE International draws attention to the lack of sufficient primary education for children living in the refugee camps of Dadaab.

Bubbly, 15 is the eldest among her siblings, 4 brothers and 3 sisters. She hails from Aherori block of District Hardoi, located in Uttar Pradesh, one of the most backward states in India in terms of human development indicators.

In developed countries, your earning potential is often based on the number of diplomas you have. But in rural Malawi, completing even a primary education is one of the most precious things anyone can achieve. For most girls there, getting even that single diploma is a rarity.