Gaza children yearn for their school days before conflict
Gaza Reuters Traumatised 10-year-old students stare at their destroyed schools in Gaza, a grim reminder of the education and time with friends in the playground lost since the war erupted over six months ago. “We would go out during recess. We would go to the classroom and walk around. The principle would come to the […]
“Catastrophic”: Kharkiv’s civilians under fire as Ukraine faces air defence shortage
TOM BALMFORTH, of Reuters, reports…
Essay: Nigerian bandits strategically target school children for kidnappings – here’s why
OLUWOLE OJEWALE, regional coordinator for the Institute for Security Studies, explains why school children are all too often targets for kidnappers in Nigeria…
Essay: Unmarked graves, violent repression and cultural erasure: the devastating human toll of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
JON RICHARDSON, a visiting fellow at the Centre for European Studies at Australian National University, looks – in an article first published on The Conversation – at the devastation two years of war has wrought on Ukraine…
Sydney school, supermarket tainted with asbestos amid widening crisis
Sydney, Australia Reuters Seven more public sites in Sydney, including a school, sports hub and supermarket, were exposed to asbestos, authorities said on Monday, as the contamination of the toxic material widened and officials rushed to remove it from public spaces. Traces of bonded asbestos in mulch have been found in 41 spots scattered across […]
East Ukraine’s Kharkiv builds underground schools as Russia keeps up attacks
Kharkiv, Ukraine Reuters Faced with the constant threat of Russian air strikes, officials in eastern Ukraine’s Kharkiv region have begun building heavily fortified underground schools that will allow children to safely return to in-person studies as Moscow’s invasion grinds on. Schools in the region of around 2.5 million people, which borders Russia, were forced into […]
Schools in Jerusalem, Brazil and India among world’s best in global prizes
London, UKReuters Five schools, including a bilingual, integrated Jewish-Arab one in Jerusalem, triumphed at the World’s Best School prizes on Saturday for feats including fostering unity, helping the local community and supporting mental health. The winners, also in Brazil, Colombia, India and South Africa, shared a $US250,000 prize at the awards, launched last year by […]
Hepatitis outbreak closes schools, sends scores to hospital in Ukraine’s Vinnytsia
Reuters Schools will move to an online regime starting Monday in Ukraine’s central city of Vinnytsia after a Hepatitis A outbreak sent scores of children and adults to the hospital, the country’s chief sanitary official said over the weekend. “The main thing now is to establish the centre of the outbreak and the causes in […]
Haitian gangs run schools, clinics as government absent – UN report
Port-au-Prince, HaitiReuters Haitian gangs run schools, clinics and foundations in place of an increasingly absent government, even as their criminal rackets help gang leaders amass funds and afford luxury homes with swimming pools in the hemisphere’s poorest country. That was one of the findings of a comprehensive United Nations report published on Wednesday. People fleeing […]
In Burkina Faso, a million children out of school due to insecurity – UNICEF
Dakar, SenegalReuters More than one million children and 31,000 teachers have been unable to return to their classrooms in Burkina Faso due to violence and insecurity as the West African nation starts another academic year on Monday, UNICEF said. Schoolchildren who fled from attacks of armed militants in Sahel region attend a class in Dori, […]