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Watch how we changed the lives of vulnerable children in 2021!

Join us! That’s the message from Theirworld’s Global Youth Ambassadors as we showcase some of our success stories in an end-of-year highlights video. Despite a hugely challenging year for children, Theirworld has continued to innovate, inspire and advocate for quality education for every child in the US, UK, Greece, Kenya, Lebanon, Nigeria, Tanzania, Turkey, Uganda and beyond.

Watch the video and find out how you can help us to continue to unlock big change for young people.


Theirworld Chair Sarah Brown is honoured for her work on education and health

We’ve had strong links for many years with Scotland’s capital city. So it was an especially proud moment when the University of Edinburgh awarded an honorary degree to Theirworld Chair Sarah Brown for her passionate advocacy on global education and health issues.

As she received her doctorate, Sarah spotlighted the pioneering work of The Jennifer Brown Research Laboratory, based at the university, into the causes and consequences of premature birth.


Action needed to help children catch up on lost learning

Millions of the world's most vulnerable students missed big chunks of education due to Covid-related school closures. Governments have been urged to help them catch up on lost lessons before there's a dramatic increase in children without basic reading skills by the age of 10.

Our weekly roundup of global education news also looks at the teacher in Uganda who was forced into alternative work during the pandemic and now fears his own children will never go back to school.


Congratulations! Amazing advocacy work makes the headlines

Theirworld has been partnering for several years with the Refugee Trauma Initiative, which does amazing work with displaced young people in Greece. We are delighted by the news that Zarlasht Halaimzai, the initiative's CEO, has been named on the BBC’s list of 100 most influential and inspiring women of 2021. See the full list here.

A big well done also to Emmanuel Gyan, a Theirworld Global Youth Ambassador from Ghana. The Sky FM journalist was named as Reporter of the Year at the Bono and Ahafo Media Awards. Emmanuel said: "I see journalism as a tool that gives voice to the voiceless, help to the helpless and amplifies the concerns of the ordinary citizen." Full article.


💬 Quote of the week 💬

"Evidence shows that girls’ education can decrease the likelihood of conflict and increase resilience to climate disasters - as such, education is a critical pillar in reducing the risk of future crises."

Helen Grant, the UK's Special Envoy for Global Education, in an interview with Education Cannot Wait.


Did you know? 🤔

Despite a pandemic and climate change, young people are more confident that the world is becoming a better place, compared to those aged 40 and older.

From UNICEF’s Changing Childhood project, which surveyed more than 20,000 people in 21 countries.


👀 What we're reading and watching this week.

📚 "Not being able to study feels like a death penalty," says 15-year-old Meena. She and other teenage schoolgirls in Afghanistan told the BBC of their growing desperation at being shut out of school by the Taliban.

🏫 Chea Sam was the first member of the Bunong ethnic minority in his Cambodian village to graduate from high school. Now he is hoping to encourage others by becoming a teacher. Read his inspiring story.


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