Back-to-school, but not back to normal: Lessons from our field programs
By Tracey Evans, Program Manager, Education “Back-to-school” looked very different this September – not only in Canada, but in our
Education
The challenge: A strong education system channels energy and brainpower towards a better future. But around the world, more than 260 million children are out of school, and 15 million girls will never enter a classroom in their life. Half of the world’s children and adolescents do not meet the minimum standards in reading and math, and of the world’s 123 million illiterate youth, 62 percent are girls. These gaps in education translate to a world where people of all ages are left out of opportunity, and do not reach their full potential as adults.
Our solution: From preschool programs to advanced education for adults, our investments train teachers and administrators, and improve classrooms and schools, with a focus on dismantling the barriers to education for women and girls. We support policy and research to develop and scale affordable, innovative solutions that raise the quality and accessibility of public school systems for the most marginalized children worldwide.
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The world we want
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), sometimes called the Global Goals, are a worldwide movement to break the cycle of poverty
The chain school
Can we teach the same way we make Big Macs?
Sowing the seeds of potential: Women
While program has transformed lives in the classroom, it has lifted up women in the community as well.
Sowing the seeds of potential: Transforming teachers
The Madrasa Program also transforms the lives of the teachers who come through its doors, by training existing and future teachers.
New opportunities, at their fingertips
Across Aga Khan Foundation’s global education programs, I’d often heard about school classrooms that held upwards of eighty, one hundred, even two hundred students at one time.
Sowing the seeds of potential
The first 1,000 days of a child’s life, it is said, sets the stage for all future growth.
Daring to Deliver: Midwives on the Frontlines
Midwives are often on the frontlines of health care in developing countries, delivering crucial patient-centered care to women and their
Meet Mwatime
The world’s 1.1 billion girls are a source of power, energy, and creativity.
