Every Child Deserves a Happy and Innocent Childhood.
June 4th is marked worldwide as a reminder of the pain suffered by children throughout the world, mostly victims of abuse either mental, emotional and even physical. This was first made official on June 4th 2011. In 1997 the General Assembly adopted 51/77 resolution on the rights of the child due to the casualties of […]
CORONA PANDEMIC AND ITS EFFECTS ON EDUCATION.
It is statistical correct to say by research that two thirds of the world’s school-age children that is approximately 1.3billion children aged 3 to 17 years do not have internet connection.(source UNICEF and ITU). From this statistics we can analyze the situation and accurately guess that most of these children could not learn from home […]
Single motherhood and it’s struggles.
In 2006 studies revealed that 12.9million families in the US were headed by a single parent of which an estimated 80% was headed by females. The birth rate for unmarried women was 41 births per 1,000 between the ages of 15-44 in 2017, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Data was obtained from most recent Demographic […]
Why African board games should be introduced into the classroom
When most of us think about learning, we imagine a teacher and a classroom. In reality most of the things we know, and a great number of the skills we acquire as children and adults, are learned outside the classroom – in conversations with peers, engaging in community service, on the playground. Educators and researchers […]
The repetition rate of Neuchâtel’s students as seen by the pedagogue Claude-Alain Kleiner
Are Neuchâtel students worse than elsewhere (here, a class in Germany)? “Decades of work to get here!” This is the cry from the heart of the pioneers of the 1970s and beyond, when they heard of the disgraceful ranking of the canton of Neuchâtel in terms of the repetition rate of pupils. These elders who […]
WORLD IMMUNIZATION WEEK.
World Immunisation Week is marked every last week of April,it is used to promote the core message that immunisation of every child is vital to prevent diseases and protect life. The slogan Prevent. Protect. Immunize. carries this message across. Modern medicine has come a long way from days of herbs and powder to periods of immunization, […]
Nigeria: USAID Ensures Access to Education for Out-of-School Children’ in Northern Nigeria’
Mr. Nurudeen Lawal, the Chief of Party USAID Northern Education Initiative spoke to Funmi Ogundare and explained the various strategies used and how the agency had partnered with different stakeholders at the state and federal levels in the last five years. The objective is to provide basic literacy opportunities to out-of-school children especially in Sokoto […]
School drop out rates.
In a society, education plays a very important role in opening up vast opportunities for the individuals living within there, when the basic structures of acquiring knowledge is lacking, the society is in peril as there will be several problems cropping up from the lack of education such as: Extreme poverty: Members of the society lack basic […]
Together We Can Provide Better Life For All African Children.
Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa ( SSA) have not been spared from the negative impact of the COVID-19 crisis.As data shows that agriculture continues to be the main source of livelihood of smallholders household in Sub-saharan Africa. While farmers are still struggling to deliver their produce to the market and to acquire badly needed agricultural inputs […]
Child Trafficking
Trafficking of children in West and Central Africa is on the rise and demands a concerted effort from all sectors of society in affected countries to combat it, according to ILO’s International Programme on the Elimination of Child labour. Recruited and sold into prostitution and forced labour,children aged between 12 and 16 are the main […]