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Sri Lanka: Pressure Starts Young
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka | Shamindra Jayasinghe is a grade four student at Subharathi Junior School in Godagama, near the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo. Last year, he came home from school, […]
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Angola: A Decidedly Mixed Bag
Eighteen-year-old Johanna da Conceicao Silva is one of the lucky ones. She has received a second chance to further her education through the Adolescent Girls’ Education Project, despite the ordeal […]
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Turkey: Unequal Opportunities
ISTANBUL | In today’s Turkey, if you are a young girl from a poor family with many children, and your parents have only attended primary school, there’s only about a […]
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Georgia: How to Paint an Enemy
On 8 and 9 February, Georgia’s Ministry of Education and Science held a nationwide contest for students of all ages. The competition, “Russian Aggression Through My Eyes,” invited students up […]
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Ukraine: Fixing Past Problems, Causing New Ones
Kyiv | Seventh-grade student Karina Ilyasheva is on her way home from school. It is already after 8 pm and she is very tired, having sat through six regular lessons […]
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Georgia: Class Struggle
This is the third in a series of multimedia reports on villages and urban districts in Georgia where Azeris and Armenians co-exist. You can learn more about this project and […]
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Romania: Village Kindergartens Struggle to Survive
BRASOV, Romania | A recent renovation brought new furniture and clean, bright bathrooms to Harman village’s Kindergarten No. 1. But the daily maintenance of this four-room school for 87 children […]
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