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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
PETER B

Education In Third World - 2 views

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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?
FAZLA R

BBC NEWS | Africa | Call for free African schools - 1 views

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schools South Africa

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  • In sub-Saharan Africa - as in the rest of the world - more boys than girls go to school. In West Africa it is estimated that only about 40% of girls are in school.
  • The director of an influential group of schools in Africa has said more girls will only go into education if fees are scrapped across the continent.
    • FAZLA R
      FAZLA R on 09 Nov 09
       
      This is important because it shows us all of the things that are happening to schools in South Africa. I believe that schools in South Africa should be improved because everyone deserves a god education that is why I highlighted these paragraphs.
  • In sub-Saharan Africa - as in the rest of the world - more boys than girls go to school. In West Africa it is estimated that only about 40% of girls are in school.
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  • In sub-Saharan Africa - as in the rest of the world - more boys than girls go to school. In West Africa it is estimated that only about 40% of girls are in school.
  • In sub-Saharan Africa - as in the rest of the world - more boys than girls go to school. In West Africa it is estimated that only about 40% of girls are in school.
  • In sub-Saharan Africa - as in the rest of the world - more boys than girls go to school. In West Africa it is estimated that only about 40% of girls are in school.
  • In sub-Saharan Africa - as in the rest of the world - more boys than girls go to school. In West Africa it is estimated that only about 40% of girls are in school.
  • Madeline Brownstone on 10 Nov 09
     
    Africa is a continent of many countries. Please identify the country.
MARC J

'Massive' lack of education plagues Africa - Mail & Guardian Online: The smart news source - 0 views

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School Africa

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  • n South Africa, as in most of Africa, boys are pressured into dropping out of school to earn money for their families, while pregnancy is the main reason girls leave school. She said South Africa has reached universal primary-school enrolment and has enrolment rates of 90% in secondary schools, and that girls are now in the majority at this level. While it initially appeared that there were more girls in South Africa's school system, studies showed that this was not because boys were dropping out more easily. "Instead, boys are flowing through the system more slowly than girls. Boys are repeating grades more frequently ... are dropping out of school and then coming back," Pandor said.
    • MARC J
      MARC J on 10 Nov 09
       
      It's sad to see that most younger kids in this country have to stop going to school for money to support thier family, thier lack of education won't help them later in thier lives
    • FAZLA R
      FAZLA R on 13 Nov 09
       
      I agree with you and I also feel that everyone deserves a good education, including poor children.
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.
Gus M

BBC NEWS | Africa | SA poor's education struggle - 0 views

news.bbc.co.uk/...3605275.stm

shared by Gus M on 10 Nov 09 - Cached
  • "The education is offered is good, even though we lack materials. The teachers teach well." But talk to her for a while and you realise that being the best school in Soweto is only relative. "Winter is coming, the windows and doors are broken - the classrooms are not worth being called classrooms. Not all of them have electricity. And the toilets... eish!"
    • Gus M
      Gus M on 10 Nov 09
       
      This explians who the conditions were in th schools
  • Ten years after the introduction of democracy in South Africa, teachers, pupils and the government all agree that there is still a long way to go in terms of ironing out the inequalities in education.
    • Gus M
      Gus M on 10 Nov 09
       
      after a few years the government made some changes to schools
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