At Aide et Action, we believe in the power of education to raise awareness among young people, to free them from prejudices and to prepare them to live together in tolerance. Education is key to leading younger generations towards peaceful citizenship and solidarity. Holding this belief, we developed our junior magazine from 2015 to 2018 to contribute towards […]
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Cambodia: Reaching children with disabilities during Covid-19
As the sun rises over the rice fields in a small rural village, in Cambodia’s Kampong Speu province, 25-year-old Horm Chandy feeds and baths her 14-month-old son before she drops him over to her parents nearby so she can get to work. Chandy typically sets off on her motorbike at 6.30am to get to the […]
Emojis – A universal language to address an educational emergency
On the occasion of International Day of Education (24 January), and as the sector experiences an unprecedented crisis, Aide et Action is launching an information and awareness campaign based on emojis. A universal “language” to remind the world that even today 258 million children are still being deprived of an education. To save the future […]
International Day of Education: an unprecedented crisis threatens the future of entire generations
24 January has been proclaimed by the United Nations as the International Day of Education. It is not enough to celebrate this day in view of the critical, even dramatic, situation in which education finds itself in the world today. Blame it on the COVID-19 pandemic, but not only. At the dawn of the 21st […]
International Day of Education 2021: Time to address the emergency
The 3rd International Day of Education will be earmarked by alarming figures relating to education around the world. In the current context of a global pandemic and while 2021 remains uncertain, Aide et Action is calling on states, including France, to urgently take action, particularly financially, to support of education. Before the pandemic, 258 million […]
Report: The impact of Covid-19 on education in Lao PDR
In the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR), as a measure to prevent the spread of the Covid-19 virus, the Government announced a nationwide lockdown from 30 March 2020 under the Prime Minister’s Order No.06.1 All schools and other educational institutions were closed from mid-March through May 2020 (2.5 months). An estimated 1.4 million students […]
Mali: Aide et Action supports out of school children to return to education
The political and security crisis that Mali has been experiencing since 2012 has seriously affected the country’s education system. While thousands of children do not have access to quality education, Aide et Action and our partners have been developing incentives and solutions to get children back in classrooms. With the “Access to Education for All […]
Togo: Promoting the rights of women and youth for a more sustainable future
In late November 2020, Aide et Action, in partnership with Plan International, launched a new project to support women and youth in northern Togo — a region that is experiencing growing insecurity in terms of economy and public safety. Our new project called “Savanes Motoag” (“Living together in the Savannahs” in the national language) aims […]