Action Towards Increased Quality Education for Internally Displaced Children

From INEE: Action Towards Increased Quality Education for Internally Displaced Children Save the Children  At the end of 2019, at least 13.4 million school-age children (5-17 years old) were internally displaced due to conflict or violence. These numbers are likely an underestimate with many internally displaced children unaccounted for due to lack of data. The periods

War is Driving Girls Out of School

War is Driving Girls Out of SchoolHeather Barr, Human Rights Watch’s Women’s Rights Division ““There were two bombs in the school,” said 16-year-old Malalai, describing an attack in January 2016 against her girls’ school in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province. She said the Taliban had left a letter in the schoolyard: “They said they put the bombs

Changing lives of Afghan girls through courage & conviction

Podcast: Changing lives of Afghan girls through courage & conviction UNICEF International Women’s Day this year was celebrated under the theme “Equality for women is progress for all.” On this occasion, we spoke to Sakena Yokobi, founder and president of the Afghan Institute of Learning, winner of the 2013 Opus Prize and a true trailblazer in serving

Study: Bringing Education to Afghan Girls: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Village-Based Schools

From INEE newsletter Study: Bringing Education to Afghan Girls: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Village-Based Schools By Dana Burde and Leigh L. Linden We conducted a randomized evaluation of the effect of village-based schools on children’s academic performance using a sample of 31 villages and 1,490 children in rural northwestern Afghanistan. The program significantly increased