Every child has the right to learn
Our child education programmes reached 8.4 million children in 2023.
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About us
How are we helping children access education?
We ensure children keep learning no matter what. Whether recovering from natural disasters, facing violence, or at risk of child marriage.
And in the UK, we’re improving early years learning and keeping childcare costs on the political agenda.
Education around the world
How we’re helping keep children learning
- Child refugees: Working with the UNCHR & Pearson to shine a light on efforts to provide education
- Families Connect: Building on feedback from parents looking for support in literacy/language development, numeracy & emotional development
- Girls’ education: Giving thousands of girls the support they need to stay in education in Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Mozambique and the DRC.
- Gaza: as soon as the conditions exist for a safe and meaningful response, we’re ready to scale up our activities further in Gaza, including setting up temporary learning spaces and repairing damaged schools
- Philippines: Giving parents the knowledge, skills & resources they need to support their child’s early learning and development
- Rwanda: Increasing the number of quality children’s books, starting reading clubs & supporting parents and teachers
- Syria: Keeping children safe by helping them return to learning
- UK: Putting childcare costs high on the political agenda & shining a light on the importance of a skilled early education workforce.
What impacts children’s access to education?
Millions of children never see inside a classroom. Others drop out due to overcrowding, conflict, or simply because they’re a girl.
Here in the UK, the poorest children do less well than wealthier classmates – and low literacy is linked to low pay and unemployment.
A lot can get in the way of education. But from Leeds to Liberia, a love of learning is universal. Children know it’s key to a world of possibilities.
How serious is the problem?
Worldwide
- 124m children/young people have not started school or dropped out
- Over a quarter of a billion children are out of school
- 420m children will not learn the most basic skills.
- All children in Gaza have lost access to education
In the UK
- 23% fail to reach expected levels of language development by 5
- 1 in 3 children living in poverty fall behind with their education
- 27% of children from poor families get 5+ good GCSE passes, compared to 55% of peers from wealthier families.