Educo Philippines warns that prolonged COVID-19 crisis will likely force more children into worst forms of child labor, holds virtual public forum to raise awareness on issue Child rights organization Educo calls for critical support to ensure the working children and their families have access to quality education, flexible learning opportunities, and social safety net [...]
To mark the International Day of Education EDUCO: MORE WORK TO BE DONE TO UPHOLD CHILDREN’S RIGHT TO EDUCATION ESPECIALLY DURING COVID ERA According to the NGO, the five challenges currently faced in education are: reversing the increase in school drop-out rates, ensuring the quality of learning, preventing further inequity in education, keeping schools open [...]
The NGO has provided 20,000 children with school supplies Educo asks governments for urgent, decisive measures to alleviate the consequences of COVID-19 measures on the most vulnerable children 30 December 2020. - Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the NGO Educo has attended to half a million children in the 14 countries the organisation [...]
“Helping others knows no time or place” – Child Leader Jam Alliah, on International Solidarity Day, 2020 As in most countries in the world, schools in the Philippines closed their doors in March because of our current global health crisis. Now, little by little, schools in other countries have started re-opening but this has [...]
PRESS RELEASE Educo: A month since Super Typhoon Rolly, children and families in Catanduanes struggling to get back on their feet due to loss of homes and livelihoods Child rights group Educo distributes essential relief supplies to 560 families in Catanduanes to aid in emergency response and recovery (November 29, 2020, Catanduanes) A month [...]
EDUCO URGES GOVERNMENTS TO TAKE CHILDREN’S OPINIONS INTO ACCOUNT WHEN TAKING ACTION AGAINST COVID-19 November 20, 2020 - To mark World Children’s Day, which is celebrated this Friday, Educo urges governments to listen to children and take their opinions into account, especially now that children are experiencing the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. “Measures approved [...]
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Educo: Teachers need more resources to face the new challenges caused by COVID-19 Let’s act October 5th, 2020 COVID-19 has meant a huge challenge for teachers. Over the last few months, teachers have had to adapt their work almost overnight and they are now managing this new reality with numerous difficulties, but also with a high [...]
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Memories of brutality in the midst of a pandemic; the reality of a Rohingya child refugee Today marks the third year since the violent military offensive in Myanmar which forced hundreds of thousands of Rohingya families to abandon their homes. For Ashika, a thirteen-year-old refugee who lives in the Cox’s Bazar camp in Bangladesh, the [...]
