In Burkina Faso just 40 percent of children with a physical impairment attend school, only slightly below overall national attendance rates. Yet children reported as deaf, mute, blind, or living with a mental impairment are far less likely to be enrolled in school than those with other physical impairments not requiring adaptation in teaching. Children who ...
This picture was taken in the state of Karnataka, India and shows children who are currently not enrolled in school. Today, well over 60 million children are not attending school. Over 40% of these children currently live in conflict-affected or fragile states and are at higher risk of being marginalized. Around 43% of out-of-school children live ...
The road to the village of Telrui, Bankura in West Bengal, India, was extremely bumpy and narrow. The tiny dirt road our car was traveling down, however, was leading us to a gem in early grade learning projects, so it was worth it. I was in India earlier this year, to visit projects led by ...
Though almost no one would directly say this to a child, it may still reflects what many children might feel when they see they have missed a chance to receive an education. This might be because there was no school where they lived, or their parents thought education wasn’t important because they are illiterate themselves ...
Just a few years ago I was teaching English to adolescent students in Dakar, Senegal who were, in general, privileged. Their families could afford school fees to send them to private educational institutions, and many were preparing for university in other countries, such as the United States. They had access to academic counseling and support ...
