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In India, rural women learn to read and ride bicycles. In Germany, people with literacy problems call a confidential hotline for help. In Swaziland, specialists from all over sub-Saharan Africa trade ideas on teaching about HIV/AIDS. All over the world, educational challenges are met with innovative solutions.

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One year after the Government of Southern Sudan launched its ‘Go to School’ initiative, enrolment has increased to over 850,000 and more than one-third of all students are girls. During Sudan’s civil war, only one percent of girls completed primary school but girls like Suku are beginning to change that – she will graduate from secondary school next year.


Educational Resources


Real People, Real Stories

Global Run: Students take action to make a global community

Indigenous learning: a bilingual future in Brazil

Rewriting the future: schooling during emergencies

Like millions of girls, Geetha yearns to go to school

Read, write, vote: literacy empowers in Haiti


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