Global News by Tag: Education
NAIROBI, KENYA – It is 2:30 p.m. in Kibera, Kenya’s largest slum. The sun is vengefully hot, and foreheads are polka-dotted with sweat droplets.
A 5-foot-5-inch figure wearing a green and white checkered dress, matching socks and a red sweater approaches from the shade. With each step the shadowy figure takes, the bright sunshine reveals the face of a smiling young girl. She cradles a wooden box in her sturdy arms like a newborn.
KIGALI, RWANDA – It’s Friday afternoon at Groupe Scolaire St. André, a secondary school in Kigali, Rwanda’s capital. Students are headed home for the three-week spring holiday.
Clad in white shirts, khaki skirts and trousers with yellow sweaters, the nearly 700 students, who range in age from 11 to 20, gather excitedly. They talk and wave their newly received report cards.
Part II: Education and Unemployment in Uganda
KAMPALA, UGANDA – After 17 years of schooling, Danson Baingana, 32, graduated with a bachelor’s degree in commerce from Makerere University in 2005. He says he was full of enthusiasm and hope that at last he was going to become financially independent.
“I was so happy that I had finally finished school after 17 years of schooling,” he says.
Part I: Education and Unemployment in Uganda
KABALE, UGANDA – Lucky Ariho, 26, counts herself fortunate that her education landed her a prestigious job. She is a lecturer in the English department at Kabale University in southwestern Uganda.
KUNAN POSHPORA, KASHMIR, INDIA – Located in the remote, northern district of Kupwara, Kunan Poshpora looks like any other village in Indian-administered Kashmir. But on Feb. 23, 1991, something happened here that would change this village forever.
That night, residents say that Indian troops laid siege to their village. The army assembled the men at several locations in the town and then entered their homes.
KATHMANDU, NEPAL – Radha Karki decided last year to pull her two children out of their government school in Kathmandu, Nepal’s capital.
Although the cost puts tremendous financial pressure on her and her husband, she decided it was worth it to enroll them in private school. Her 5-year-old daughter, Safalta, now studies in kindergarten, and her 9-year-old son, Safal, is in first grade at Sneha Secondary English School.
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Gabriella Gomes, 24, is in nursing school. But she says she didn’t always enjoy being a student when she was younger because she was bullied.
For years, she says her childhood peers teased her for being intelligent. She says they also made fun of her body type because she was not as thin as the other girls. Students were verbally aggressive, calling her names such as “whale.” Sometimes, the words escalated to actions.