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ALBERT L

UNICEF - Tsunami disaster - countries in crisis - A new school means new hope in tsunam... - 0 views

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Hambantota Zahira school

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  • Despite their terrible loss, Fawzana and her family seem to have found a measure of comfort and stability in their daily routine. Fawzana’s father helps cut bread for her breakfast while she sleepily brushes her hair and gets her books ready. Then he drives his daughters and their friends to school. The Zahira school has been rebuilt. It now has high, protective walls and an effective electrical system, which the old building lacked. In one new room, rows of computers wait for children to start working the keyboards. Zahira, which serves 500 students, is now equipped with modern, separate toilet facilities for girls and boys. Zahira is one of 35 new schools UNICEF has been helping to build in Sri Lanka following the tsunami. Next door, builders are hard at work on a new secondary school. In Hambantota, as elsewhere, a school has an importance beyond its bricks and mortar. “In the aftermath of the disaster, you have to consider the psychological factor,” says English teacher S.M. Risham. “You know when the students get back to school they have the opportunity of sharing their experience. At the same time they can get a valuable education so that they’ll be able to stand on their own feet.” A new startFawzana and her classmates haven’t forgotten the tsunami. She’s still afraid of the sea at times, especially if it’s rough. But she is also beginning to turn her mind to the future. “I want to be a teacher because I want to follow my mother. I want to see other children studying and I want to help them do that in the future.” Back on the seafront, new fishing boats form a colourful arc, a strong sign that the local fishing industry is being restored. And just as Hambantota’s fishing fleet is a vital economic lifeline, its schools are anchors for the whole community. For Fawzana personally, the revival of the Zahira school represents a new start and new hope.         var emailarticleloc = location.href; emailarticleloc = emailarticleloc.replace("http://www.unicef.org",""); emailarticleloc = emailarticleloc.replace("http://unicef.org",""); var emailarticle = "Email this article Email this article var pageURL = encodeURIComponent("http://www.unicef.org/emerg/disasterinasia/index_36576.html"); var pageTitle = ''; pageTitle = encodeURIComponent("A new school means new hope in tsunami-stricken Hambantota, Sri Lanka").replace(/\'/g,'%27'); var pageBlurb = encodeURIComponent(("HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka, December 2006 – The wave of destruction that swept through Hambantota – a town known for its fishing industry on Sri Lanka’s south coast – is still visible two years later.").replace(/\s+/g,' ').replace(/^\s*/,'')).replace(/\'/g,'%27'); var pageImageOriginal = ""; var pageTitleOriginal = "A new school means new hope in tsunami-stricken Hambantota, Sri Lanka"; var pageBlurbOriginal = "HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka, December 2006 – The wave of destruction that swept through Hambantota – a town known for its fishing industry on Sri Lanka’s south coast – is still visible two years later."; var pageURLOriginal = "http://www.unicef.org/emerg/disasterinasia/index_36576.html"; function createBlogBox(id) { var s = ".unicef_embed h3 a:hover { text-decoration: unde
  • ALBERT L on 10 Nov 09
     
    This teaches me that lots of countries lost schools
GIULIANA V

CBC News Indepth: Afghanistan - 1 views

www.cbc.ca/...schools.html

BSGE Afghanistan cbc

shared by GIULIANA V on 07 Nov 09 - Cached
  • When 1.5 million children went back in school in Afghanistan in the spring of 2002, a tough lesson was waiting for them. While the country welcomed some semblance of peace for the first time in years, war remained very much a part of its classrooms. Afghanistan's teachers tried to erase war images from the textbooks, images that got there in the first place due in large part to Cold War policies in the United States.
    • GIULIANA V
      GIULIANA V on 07 Nov 09
       
      This is very important because it shows that the war that is going is affecting both countries. When we think of the war we think of only who it affects us but it affects our troops and the troops' family but not most of our schooling systems. This should make us think and do somthing to help them,
  • Some children bring their own chairs to school, if they have them. The school was almost destroyed by war.
    • GIULIANA V
      GIULIANA V on 07 Nov 09
       
      this just shows how this war is highly affecting them more then this war has been affecting us.
  • A student learns to add and subtract bullets Math teachers use bullets as props to
    • GIULIANA V
      GIULIANA V on 07 Nov 09
       
      this shows that these kids willl grow up with the idea of war stuck in their back of thier heads this will affect them and their lives in the long run
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  • m has been the best place to indoctrinate young people with their duty to fight. Government-sponsored textbooks in Afghanistan are filled with violence. For years, war was the
  • teach lessons in subtraction. This isn't their idea. During decades of war, the classroo
  • only lesson that counted.
  • So, at that time, there was a lot of militaristic thinking."
    • GIULIANA V
      GIULIANA V on 07 Nov 09
       
      this will eventually affect the childrens minds
  • Rashid loves school but he says he and the other boys don't understand why their books are filled with war.
    • GIULIANA V
      GIULIANA V on 07 Nov 09
       
      these kids just want to learn things that other children around the world are learniong without the idea of war in their heads
  • The pleasures of childhood are so simple. A kite to fly, a friend to share your dreams with, maybe a good storybook. In Afghanistan, a child's pleasure is simply an end to 23 years of war.
    • GIULIANA V
      GIULIANA V on 07 Nov 09
       
      its really sad how these kids cannot dream like other kids they have to worry about a huge war.
  • GIULIANA V on 07 Nov 09
     
    "INDEPTH: AFGHANISTAN Back to school in Afghanistan CBC News Online | January 27, 2004 The National | Airdate: May 6, 2002 Reporter: Carol Off | Producer: Heather Abbott | Editor: Catherine McIsaac When 1.5 million children went back in school in Afghanistan in the spring of 2002, a tough lesson was waiting for them. While the country welcomed some semblance of peace for the first time in years, war remained very much a part of its classrooms. Afghanistan's teachers tried to erase war images from the textbooks, images that got there in the first place due in large part to Cold War policies in the United States. Textbooks are full of guns, swords and other images of war At a public school in Kabul, students and teachers are anxious for some kind of normal routine. Some children bring their own chairs to school, if they have them. The school was almost destroyed by war. There's no electricity. It's colder inside than out. The cement floor is freezing. But the students don't mind. The young women and girls at this school are back in the classroom after five years of banishment by the Taliban. Women in their 20s have returned to Grade 11. But they're not bitter, they're happy. Getting children back to school is a number one priority in Afghanistan's post war government. But the big question is: what will they learn? A student learns to add and subtract bullets Math teachers use bullets as props to teach lessons in subtraction. This isn't their idea. During decades of war, the classroom has been the best place to indoctrinate young people with their duty to fight. Government-sponsored textbooks in Afghanistan are filled with violence. For years, war was the only lesson that counted. The Mujahideen, Afghanistan's freedom fighters, used the classroom to prepare children to fight the Soviet empire. The Russians are long gone but the textbooks are not. The Mujahideen had wanted to prepare the next generation of Afghans to fight the enemy, so pupils learned the prop
  • Madeline Brownstone on 10 Nov 09
     
    Please tag this schools. Also, can you highlight passages that help you create an image of what schools look like?
LAUREN K

Schools for Africa Campaign supported by UNICEF Ireland - 1 views

www.unicef.ie/schools-for-africa.htm

schools Africa

shared by LAUREN K on 07 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Support school construction, provide educational materials, train teachers With your help, “Schools for Africa” will support the construction and reconstruction of schools and the provision of education materials in six African countries, Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa and Zimbabwe. It will develop training programmes for teachers and strengthen school governance and management. In the six countries, schools will be established mainly in rural areas.
  • Madeline Brownstone on 10 Nov 09
     
    Can you highlight passages that help you create an image of what schools look like? Also, please make "schools" lower case and identify the country that this article is focusing on. Africa is a continent of many countries.
  • LAUREN K on 10 Nov 09
     
    i put up a new article that showed what that gave me an image of what the school looks like.
SYED A

shid07b.jpg (JPEG Image, 2722x2028 pixels) - Scaled (29%) - 3 views

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schools bangladesh photo

shared by SYED A on 13 Nov 09 - No Cached
  • SYED A on 13 Nov 09
     
    This is how schools are like in Bangladesh...
ISABELLA H

ibc_philippines_6837-2.jpg (JPEG Image, 200x140 pixels) - 7 views

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Philippines schools photo

shared by ISABELLA H on 10 Nov 09 - No Cached
  • LINA R on 13 Nov 09
     
    In the school in your picture is there any students attending that school? Or did they shut down because of those conditions?
  • ISABELLA H on 13 Nov 09
     
    I don't know. There is no information about it, there is only a picture.
LAUREN K

Inside classroom.jpg (JPEG Image, 800x530 pixels) - 3 views

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Kokoda Africa schools photo

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  • LAUREN K on 10 Nov 09
     
    This picture shows a classroom in Kokoda, Africa that is very poor. It looks like they need a lot of new materials and construction
ABDULAH D

6.primary school Kampala suburb.JPG (JPEG Image, 1600x1200 pixels) - Scaled (45%) - 1 views

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schools Uganda photo

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  • ABDULAH D on 10 Nov 09
     
    This shows a small room where these children are packed inside.
PETER B

teaching-in-cambodi-school.jpg (JPEG Image, 420x300 pixels) - 1 views

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school Cambodia Image

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THOMAS C

Africa Recovery/UN/14#2.Schools in Africa - 2 views

www.un.org/...educat.htm

school country

shared by THOMAS C on 10 Nov 09 - Cached
  • As a percentage of gross domestic product, average expenditure on education in 1992-96 was half the level of the mid-1980s. By 1994, primary school enrolment was declining, especially of girls. "Compared with the [IMF] inflation targets drawn up in Washington," observed Oxfam, "the education targets set at Jomtien have been irrelevant. In fact, the design and implementation of structural adjustment in Zambia has destroyed any prospect of the country achieving the Jomtien goals."
  • Madeline Brownstone on 10 Nov 09
     
    For full credit, please follow through and use the tagging protocols: Name of Country and schools.
  • Madeline Brownstone on 10 Nov 09
     
    can you highlight passages that help you create an image of what the schools are like?
PETER B

Education In Third World - 2 views

www.streetdirectory.com/...education_in_third_world.html

Schools Mexico India Brazil Turkey the Philippines Egypt South Africa Malaysia Thailand much of America and several Persian Gulf Arab States.

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  • PETER B on 10 Nov 09
     
    "With the daily challenges posed by economic difficulty and other threats, governments in developing countries are working very hard to ensure that their educational institutions continue to provide a standard of education that can make its citizens at part with the educated people in more economically sound countries. To a certain extent, these Third World countries have succeeded in their crusade for quality education. The problem is that a good education comes with a price and it is often a price that many people in Third World countries are not able to pay. So, although quality education is available, it is still unreachable for a large segment of a developing country's population. Certainly, it is impressive to see that developing countries have educational institutions that are world-class and which offer education that can rival that provided by wealthier nations around the world. There is a clear recognition of the role that education plays in overcoming hardship and poverty. However elusive it may be, a good education is still viewed as the best way to a better life. Among the developing countries that have superb educational systems are such "emerging markets" as Mexico, India, Brazil, Turkey, the Philippines, Egypt, South Africa, Malaysia, Thailand, much of South America and several of the Persian Gulf Arab States. Obviously, the poorest of the poor in these countries will have a hard time getting into the best schools in their vicinity. Of course, there are always scholarship programs available but these are few. Besides, people at the lowest spectrum of the economic scale are more concerned with more pressing issues related to their mere survival such as where to find food and money for clothing and shelter. After these basic needs are met, that is the only time that parents can really focus on their children's schooling. In fact, studies indicate that once their basic economic needs are met, the first priority of most poor families is how to s
  • Madeline Brownstone on 10 Nov 09
     
    For full credit, please follow through and use the tagging protocols: Name of Country and schools.
  • Madeline Brownstone on 10 Nov 09
     
    How is this helping you get an image in your mind about what the schools are like?
ISABELLA H

Digital Video & Imagery Distribution System - 2 views

www.dvidshub.net/?script=news/news_show.php&id=41232

schools Philippines

shared by ISABELLA H on 09 Nov 09 - Cached
  • "It is a wonderful feeling we can assist the community and help build the school.
  • "We are very happy our people are working together on this school with the U.S. forces. Our people will greatly benefit from this project," said Jasmine B. Asum, the head high school instructor.
    • ISABELLA H
      ISABELLA H on 09 Nov 09
       
      I think it is very nice that the entire community is working together to make a school in their community.
  • Madeline Brownstone on 10 Nov 09
     
    For full credit, please capitalize proper names such as names of countries.
  • Madeline Brownstone on 10 Nov 09
     
    Can you highlight passages that help you create an image of what schools look like?
ABDULAH D

African Rural Schools Foundation : providing affordable education to disadvantaged chil... - 2 views

www.africanruralschools.org

schools Uganda

shared by ABDULAH D on 06 Nov 09 - Cached
  • We are forming partnerships all over the world with people who care about African children—especially those whose parents have been lost because of poverty and illness. We are looking for people who are generous in heart and spirit to help develop schools where these children can find hope again as they seek to rebuild a future for themselves, their families, their culture and their country.
    • ABDULAH D
      ABDULAH D on 10 Nov 09
       
      This shows a sense of people asking for school that need to be built for children who need it.
  • ABDULAH D on 06 Nov 09
     
    This shows a reason why to start making schools for children in need, in Africa.
  • Madeline Brownstone on 10 Nov 09
     
    For full credit, please follow through and use the tagging protocols: Name of Country. First of all "African" is an adjective that describes something/someone from the continent of Africa. Africa has many countries. Which one is your article primarily focusing on? Can you highlight passages that help you create an image of what schools look like?
AMISA K

IRIN Asia | Asia | Afghanistan | AFGHANISTAN: Thousands of schools lack drinking water,... - 3 views

www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx

Afghanistan schools

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  • "[School] toilets are not clean and well maintained. The current design and location of toilets are not acceptable for children, particularly girls... There are no facilities for grown-up girls," Stanikzai said.
    • AMISA K
      AMISA K on 09 Nov 09
       
      The school is in horrible condition. There is no good bathroom or water. It is becoming a very big issue. I think that when we make the design for a school I can fix the problem.
  • Over six million students are enrolled in over 10,000 schools across the country; some 34 percent of the students are female, according to the Ministry of Education (MoE). About five million school-age children are out of school, according to aid agencies such as Oxfam.MoE officials acknowledge the lack of drinking water and sanitation facilities at scho
    • AMISA K
      AMISA K on 09 Nov 09
       
      The country does not have safe drinking water. This miight be the reason why the schools do not have safe and clean water to drink.
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  • One of the reasons that the girls do not attend school is because there are no sanitation facilities," said UNICEF's Jalalabad head of office Prakash Tuladhar.
    • AMISA K
      AMISA K on 10 Nov 09
       
      Oh what a horrible condition. Girls can not attend schools because of sanitition problems. I think that when we design tbe school I can definitely fix the problem.
  • Madeline Brownstone on 10 Nov 09
     
    For full credit, please follow through and use the tagging protocols: Name of Country and schools.
  • Madeline Brownstone on 10 Nov 09
     
    This is sad about the poor sanitation. Can you highlight passages that help you create an image of what schools look like?
LINA R

Building Schools in Afghanistan: Not as Simple as ABC -- Politics Daily - 1 views

www.politicsdaily.com/...anistan-not-as-simple-as-a-b-c

schools Afghanistan

shared by LINA R on 08 Nov 09 - Cached
  • It's part of an intricate theory of counterinsurgency warfare that involves big money and grinding hard work for a long shot, distant payoff: that kids will grow up in a stable, moderate society not wrenched by extremist violence.That's our exit strategy from the Afghan war.
    • LINA R
      LINA R on 08 Nov 09
       
      This shows that everyone is realizing what a big affect that the war has had on the community of Afghanistan, and how it is affecting the children and thier future of living in Afghanistan.
  • And, according to U.S. strategists, this school and others like it will help keep boys from drifting away to extremist madrassas in Pakistan and falling into the clutches of the Taliban
    • LINA R
      LINA R on 08 Nov 09
       
      In the effort to build schools it is their attempt to make a brighter future for these kids who as of right now have no where to go, they just hang out on the streets which everyone knows leads to trouble.
  • Afghans have been building this way for hundreds, if not thousands, of years: rock foundations without mortar. The contractors and workers, some with long white beards, watch Rafaele carefully, waiting perhaps for him to explain this interesting new idea.
    • LINA R
      LINA R on 08 Nov 09
       
      The people in Afghanistan are doing what they have been doing for thousands of years and this is part of the reason that they are trapped in the cycle of war and violence, they have to try new things for the future of schools, but at the same time keep thier culture strong.
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  • "It's hard to get them to change their ways,'' he tells me later. The problem is "their stuff is over-built. We can show them how to build more efficiently, quicker and easier,'' he says.Construction is not the only problem with schools.
    • LINA R
      LINA R on 08 Nov 09
       
      This relate to the point I made before.
  • Once a school is built and filled with kids and teachers, there is a continuing need for paper, pencils, textbooks, desks, chairs -- and no obvious source of supply. As it is, U.S. troops on patrol are routinely asked for school supplies, requests that are often forwarded home to military families and charities in the States to handle.
    • LINA R
      LINA R on 08 Nov 09
       
      That is another big problem, once a school is biult and they do fins students, it brings more problems like supplies and lessons. I know from personal experience that teachers there don't come to school with a set lesson. I f the teacher doesn't show up they students just go back home. Even if they are schools people iN Afghanistan have to put it to good use.
  • Madeline Brownstone on 10 Nov 09
     
    For full credit, please follow through and use the tagging protocols: Name of Country and schools.
  • Madeline Brownstone on 10 Nov 09
     
    Can you highlight passages that help you create an image of what schools that need help look like?
MEGAN M

Feb.28, 07 : Conditions in MCD Schools horrible - Delhi High Court | Social Jurist | Co... - 2 views

www.karmayog.org/...socialjurist_2546.htm

Schools Delhi India

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  • It was pointed out by the RETF in its last visit report that 15 classrooms of this school have been declared dangerous and the students in large number are sitting in open.
  • These dangerous classrooms may collapse anytime and this Nithari Village of Delhi may be converted into another Nithari of Noida by causing death to many children.  
  • Most of the classes were being held in the tents, in the open space and in the corridors. The tents were in very pathetic condition and there were big holes in these tents.
    • MEGAN M
      MEGAN M on 10 Nov 09
       
      This shows another reason why the school is bad. The classrooms are held in tents where probably most students can't even learn properly because their squished.
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  • The toilet block was too dirty to use as nobody can dare to enter in these toilets. There was no proper arrangement of water in the toilets. It must be noted that as per the statutory provisions there must be 1 toilet seat per 25 students (girls) but there were only 4 seats for 2846 students in this school. The students were found pissing at open
    • MEGAN M
      MEGAN M on 10 Nov 09
       
      This shows how horrible the bathroom conditions are. The school needs a normal and good bathroom. Students don't even have bathrooms to use, they have to do their buisness around the schools which is really gross.
  • corridor
  • Though there was a water tank but it was dry as according to the Head Master, the motor was out of order.
    • MEGAN M
      MEGAN M on 10 Nov 09
       
      The school doesn't even have water for the kids. Its dry and not good for them.
  • It was very difficult for RETF team to enter the school as the garbage dumb were there to block the entrance of the school. The drains outside the school were chocked due to which connecting roads to the schools were filled with the dirty water and mud. As the school is situated just adjoining to a cremation ground, the smell of burning dead bodies was making the whole atmosphere horrible. The foundation for school building was laid down on 05.12.20
    • MEGAN M
      MEGAN M on 10 Nov 09
       
      This is MCD Primary School, but in another area. The school has burning dead bodies, which 1) is disgusting and 2) isn't safe for the kids. Burning Dead bodies is a health hazard.
  • here were no classrooms at all and the school was looking like a refugee camp
    • MEGAN M
      MEGAN M on 10 Nov 09
       
      No classroms, refugee camp? This shows the school needs to be changed, it's not fit to be in a school
  • MEGAN M on 07 Nov 09
     
    This is important because it shows how bad the classrooms are in this school and how bad the overall school is. It needs a renovation or a complete change to be safer for students to learn in.
  • Madeline Brownstone on 10 Nov 09
     
    Good. Please use all lower case, unless tagging proper names such as India and Delhi. Can you highlight passages that help you create an image of what schools look like?
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