We are pleased to share our new strategic plan at a defining moment, reflecting a period of change at a global level but also within our own organisation. The educational needs for a sustainable world are changing – and we have to adapt to them. While overall, unprecedented progress has been made in access to […]
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Cambodia: Fishing community hopes that Covid-19 school closures will not impact its “literate generation”
In August 2020, Aide et Action delivered radios to remote villages along the Mekong in Cambodia’s Kratié province to ensure children could tune into a new form of learning in the midst of the current pandemic. A bumpy couple of hours from Kratié town along windy dirt roads led the Aide et Action program and […]
Vietnam: Launching economic opportunities for ethnic minority youth
On 27 August and 8 September in Hoa Binh and Lao Cai provinces retrospectively, Aide et Action, in partnership with North West Development Centre (NWD), was pleased to launch our Increasing Access to Livelihood Opportunities for Ethnic Minority Youth project. Backed with funding provided by the EU, this 42-month project – starting in 2020 and […]
Challenge accepted: Supporting women’s empowerment through education
As the issue of women’s rights appears to be receiving more and more media attention – hot on the trail of current trends such as #womensupportingwomen and #challengeaccepted – what constitutes women’s empowerment remains contested. For us here at Aide et Action, empowerment is synonymous with the development of autonomy over one’s own future, made […]
Aide et Action Activity Report 2019
Before the current global pandemic of Covid-19, an estimated 258 million children remained deprived of education, 128 million of whom lived in situations of conflict or crisis. It is estimated that 46% of the most marginalised groups have very little chance of going to school by 2030, whereas 31% have none at all. Poverty, remoteness, […]
Cambodia: From “just a girl from the village” to an award-winning leader in early childhood education
Suan Sokhom dropped out of school at Grade 10 to get married. Without a complete education, she never imagined she’d have the opportunity to become a preschool teacher but, against the odds, she has become a leader in her community, committed to providing quality early childhood care and education to marginalised children in Cambodia. “I […]
Aide et Action is joining the CHS Alliance
Aide et Action is now a member of the CHS Alliance (Core Humanitarian Standard) or the Fundamental Humanitarian Standard of Quality and Accountability which brings together 150 members from humanitarian and development sectors committed to the implementation of “the standard of quality and accountability”. The CHS Alliance is a global alliance committed to improving aid […]
Lao PDR: New skills bring new opportunities for ethnic minority women
Increasing access to quality education is at the core of what we do at Aide et Action. In Vietnam and Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR), we’re also focusing on lifelong learning to offer youth vocational training and new skills to better match them to current job markets and build a more equitable and sustainable […]