On Tuesday, April 13 2021, a fire broke out in a school in Niamey, Niger, West Africa, devastating 25 classrooms inside straw huts, claiming the lives of approximately 20 young people. Through our PassEduc project, Aide et Action was already working in the area and we are now adapting our activities to respond to the […]
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Laos: Health and education go hand in hand
For Aide et Action, our 40 years of working with marginalized children around the world have taught us that good health and quality education go hand in hand: without access to education, health cannot be achieved and without good health, education cannot be attained. Despite progress in recent years, Laos still has the highest under-five […]
Cambodia: Volunteers convert mobile libraries into information stations during Covid-19 crisis
Just over a year ago, Ni Nith, a mobile-library volunteer, replaced the books he carried in his tuk-tuk with soap, hygiene materials, and a loudspeaker to share the importance of hygiene practices to prevent the spread of Covid-19. Before the Covid-19 pandemic, Aide et Action’s research estimated that approximately 250,000 children were out of school […]
Education and health: the same fight
On the occasion of World Health Day (7 April 2021), Aide et Action looks back on the essential contribution of the education sector to the promotion of better health and well-being for all and calls for bringing together both education and health efforts in the context of development projects, particularly those carried out in a […]
Aide et Action Magazine: Self-reliant women; independent women
This year, Aide et Action is celebrating its 40th anniversary; four decades of commitment to promote and strengthen the right to education for all. Since 1981, we have been working relentlessly to support vulnerable and marginalized populations, to reduce inequalities which they are facing, to reduce injustice, and to create the best educational opportunities for […]
International Women’s Day 2021: Women’s rights threatened by COVID-19
2020 should have been a year of celebration of the rights obtained for women over the past two decades. Instead, it will be remembered as the year of one of the greatest human rights setbacks; the year that the COVID-19 pandemic caused health, economic and social crises, of which women were the first to be […]
Junior Magazine: Education in time of crisis
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 […]
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 […]