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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Aide et Action Magazine: Rethinking education after the coronavirus crisis
Around the world, education that teaches, enlightens, liberates and works for a better world has become a target of extremist and obscurantist attacks. This, coupled with the threat that COVID-19 also poses to education, jeopardizes the future of a whole generation, and it is more urgent than ever to remain mobilized in order to defend […]
Aide et Action Magazine: Learning starts at birth
For 40 years Aide et Action has been committed to ensuringquality education for all. We have made early childhood one of our priority areas of intervention as early childhood care and education lay the foundations of lifelong learning and well-being. This component is an integral part of basic education and is a right for all […]
Aide et Action Magazine: Our COVID response in the face of the crisis
Education helps prevents epidemics, it teaches hygiene, it is sometimes the only solution to make up for the lack of vaccines; it can act on health problems everywhere in the world; education is a cure. This is why, in the face of the global health crisis that we have been going through for months, Aide […]
Aide et Action Magazine: Life-long learning is an essential stake for the future
We welcomed 2020 is an important turning point for Aide et Action. First, because it marked the beginning of the last decade to achieve the sustainable development goals as defined by the United Nations in order to ensure, by 2030, peace and prosperity for people and the planet. Among these objectives, that of quality education […]
Aide et Action Magazine: Defending Child Rights
Thirty years ago, the world made a promise to children: to do everything possible to protect and promote their rights to live and develop, to learn and to flourish, to make their voices heard and reach their full potential. Yet this promise materialised on 20 November 1989 on the occasion of the adoption at the […]