Blog: Let's Get Schooled
FAWCO Target Program 2016 - 2019:
Education – Empowering Women and Girls through Knowledge and Skills
In our Blog: Let's Get Schooled we will explore why education matters; we will examine the barriers, one by one, which impede women and girls from accessing quality education and completing their studies; we will become familiar with the strategies to address these issues; and we will discover who the leaders in world education are.
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Update II - December 2017
Amanda Lane, Executive Director
Collateral Repair Project
Starting a new class can be scary for anyone, but especially for refugees. New environments bring mixed emotions as they struggle with past trauma. They can find it hard to trust others, believe in themselves, or to work in groups. But there’s one universal: an uneasy student can feel a lot...
75 million school-aged children and youth are in desperate need of educational support, either in danger of, or already missing out on their education. Communities highlight the importance of education during times of crises, yet education appeals receive less than 2% of humanitarian funding. The right to education is most at risk during emergencies but it is also the exact...
The Target Program is one of FAWCO’s primary means to fulfill its mission as a United Nations accredited non-governmental organization (NGO) with special consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). Along with FAWCO's representatives who attend UN meetings, FAWCO’s Global Issues Teams also focus on issues related to women and children in FAWCO's priority areas: education, environment,
Update I - September 2017
Amanda Lane, Executive Director
Collateral Repair Project
Hello FAWCO friends!
As summer lulls to a close, all of us at Collateral Repair Project are taking a short breather after two weeks of very busy Back to School distributions. It's Eid Al Adha holiday, the end of which will find us finishing up the last of our...