Global News by Topic: 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.
KATHMANDU, NEPAL – “What had my little son and myself done that my husband brought home a second wife?” asks a frail-looking Janaki Adhikari.
Her eyes well up with tears.
“Yes, I then divorced him and raised my son on my own,” she says. “He is now 15 years old.”
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.
JÉRÉMIE, HAITI – Noise, games and laughter marked a special day for children in Jérémie, Haiti, as advocates and local children gathered to recognize and celebrate children’s rights.
BUCHAREST, ROMANIA – Vlad Mateoiu, 12, is a student at the Special School for Deaf Children No. 1 in Bucharest, Romania’s capital. His family lives in Dambovita, another county in Romania, so he stays at the boarding facility connected to the school.
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.