Since May 2020, Aide et Action has been running an international awareness campaign entitled “Education changes our lives”, made up of three components “Education Heals[AM1] “, “Education Empowers” and “Education Includes”. Through a web-documentary series, Aide et Action aims to show the impact of education on all areas of life, from health to gender equality 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 […]
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 […]
Cambodia’s ethnic minority children are tuning into a new form of learning during Coronavirus crisis
In Cambodia, Aide et Action is supporting the country’s most marginalised children to receive an education through distance learning initiatives including radio programs in ethnic minority languages. The current disruption to education has impacted approximately 1.6 billion children globally and is being regarded as the biggest global education emergency of our lifetime. In Cambodia, as […]
Vietnam: Aide et Action supports isolated communities through health education
In the remote and isolated province of Lai Chau in northern Vietnam, most of the inhabitants rely on agriculture to earn a living. When Covid-19 led to travel and trade restrictions earlier this year, those that used to go to the field every day to farm found themselves in a difficult position economically. Aide et […]
Southeast Asia: As economies fall, child labour rises during Coronavirus crisis
As livelihoods in Southeast Asia continue to be lost to the current global pandemic, the most vulnerable populations will be hit the hardest, especially children. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) estimates that the COVID crisis will threaten the employment of 68 million workers across Asia if it endures until September. This, coupled with the extensive […]
Multilingual education: preserving diversity and ensuring inclusion
On the occasion of International Mother Language Day, celebrated on February 21, Aide et Action reaffirms its commitment to multilingual education and highlights its importance for the education of thousands of children. In 1999, during the 30th session of the General Conference of UNESCO, countries adopted a Resolution establishing the concept of “multilingual education” to […]