Teachers in Uganda discuss lesson plan before conducting a Paper Prayers art session, where children create printed messages or prayers for someone important in their lives. World Education’s Bantwana Initiative introduced Paper Prayers sessions to its programs in both Uganda and Swaziland.
Photo by Jessi Smolow, World Education/Bantwana Initiative
Teachers smile in their elementary school tuck shop in rural Zimbabwe. Many of the students are vulnerable children, and the tuck shop profits go towards their school fees, uniforms, and learning materials.
Blackboard at a school in a Burmese refugee camp in Thailand.
Approximately 130,000 refugees from Burma live in refugee camps along the Thai-Burma border, and well over 400,000 live unofficially in Thai communities along the border. World Education is training teachers in this limited resourced area.
We’re traveling back to the ’60s with this photo! It depicts a National Training Centre in Bandung where teachers received a year’s training in community education, and then became village community supervisors after completing the training.
Today–46 years later–World Education Indonesia supports disadvantaged youth through the ConnectEd program; helps reach Indonesia’s teachers, administrators, and students through the PRIORITAS program; and aims to reduce poverty by providing low-income people with microfinance opportunities through Good Return.