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Fighting for better financing for education – on the Southern streets or in the Northern corridors of power?
How is advocacy best done for financing of education and the SDG goal 4, especially in situations of emergency and conflict? Is good advocacy about gathering evidence and data, and then meeting influential people with fat check-books? Or is it better to be out on the streets, mobilising grass-roots and sharing stories of injustice? When […]
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Grenade strike at a football game left 15-year-old Abdusalaam handicapped and changed his future
I was in Mafraqi, on the Jordanian side near the Syrian border, watching as people arrived at a prosthesis clinic to be treated. Many of the arrivals had lost a leg or an arm in the war across the border. They had been brought across the border to receive treatment, since there was none on […]
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Hugely popular coding course united youth in Greece – without these actions, a new underclass will be born in Europe
In Athens, it is easy to forget that there is still a great number of people in the city who have come there to escape war or poverty. Watching the good-spirited crowds of the Plaka quarter or the tourists lining up to Acropolis, it does not immediately occur to you that since 2015, over a […]
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Moving when it is impossible
Youth on the Move describes the feeling, of not accepting to be stuck, of not accepting any reasons or excuses, to still say “we gotta move”.
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Eighth year of war begins in Syria, and the situation for civilians is worse than ever
Seven years have left behind unimaginable destruction and human suffering.
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Due Process and Rectifying the Basic Infringes of Human Rights in Liberian Prisons
We have all heard it when the alleged perpetrator of a crime says “I want to make a phone call”. It seems the right thing to say when you have been accused of a crime and you need help from your parents, guardian or a lawyer. We have all got used to hearing these same […]
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This is the time to build walls
It’s time to build a wall. Walls are in right now, a trending topic. A wall solves almost all problems. And if it doesn’t? Make it bigger. A great wall. The narrative of the wall keeps people safe. It creates corresponding images to the wall in our heads. The others need to be kept out. […]
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Speed dating with Eritrean teacher educators – a dive into learning-centeredness
Research after research shows that teachers are prone to teach the way they were taught at school. If the educational system is to be developed, then, it’ll be critical to expose teachers to learning experiences that support the desired change. The Eritrean National Curriculum emphasizes on a learner-centered and interactive approach to teaching, but teachers […]
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If only my kite could take me back home to Syria
Fleeing from killing and war, the refugee children have very few toys with them. Toys were left at home in Syria. Kites are integral to spring in the Middle East. They’re everywhere in different shapes and colours. 440 children in the Zaatari and Azraq refugee camps received their own kites when Finn Church Aid organised […]
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Amman Calling
How would you feel sending your children to study in a school that was damaged in battle and had no learning materials available? What would you think if your child was attending a class much lower than other children his age because the exams were in a foreign language and he couldn’t pass them? Would […]
