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A 9-year-old schoolgirl in Uganda smiles brightly as she practices writing numbers on a chalkboard in her classroom thanks to a charity for children's education. Photo credit: Jordan. J. Hay, 2012.

Global Education

Every last child deserves the opportunity to learn. Thanks to people like you, »ÆÉ«ÊÓƵworks every day to ensure all children have the best chance to learn. In 2023, we helped 8.5 million children access the education they deserve. through our global education programs. Together, we are achieving breakthroughs in education for children. LEARN MORE

Explore Our Children’s Education Programs

Our programs ensure that young children survive and thrive – physically and emotionally – and ready them for school success.
Education research at »ÆÉ«ÊÓƵfocuses on developing and understanding effective education interventions for our Global Programs.
All too often girls miss out on the opportunity to learn. Together, we’re changing gender norms and empowering girls to grow up healthy, educated and safe. Free to determine their own futures.
Many children enrolled in school aren’t learning basic skills – like reading – once they get there. Literacy Boost helps create a culture of reading inside and outside the classroom.
This program engages children, teachers and the community, helping children develop the math skills they need to reach their full potential.
Our School Health and Nutrition programs — a model used around the world — improve health and nutrition at schools, provide access to safe water and promote lifelong health behaviors.

Achieving Breakthroughs in Education for Children

A good quality education helps children reach their full potential; however, for millions of children and youth, it is beyond reach and many are not learning basic skills like reading and math if they do attend school.

The Global Education team works across five major areas, finding the best solutions to help children learn and thrive. Our teams are:

Early Child Care and Development: These programs are focused on children aged 0-6, a period of tremendous growth in all areas of a child’s development. Our ECCD interventions range from work with 0-6 year olds as well as efforts to enable parents or caregivers to promote brain development, health and well-being as children prepare for school.

Basic Education: Our Basic Education programs help school-age children develop  vital skills to ensure their success both in school and out. Using proven approaches such as Literacy Boost and Numeracy Boost, »ÆÉ«ÊÓƵis ensuring children acquire foundational literacy, math and socio-emotional skills, which will prepare them for a lifetime of learning.

School Health and Nutrition: School Health and Nutrition programs help school age children be healthy to learn and learn to be healthy. We use comprehensive approaches to overcome the effects of chronic malnutrition, illnesses, like malaria and zika, as well as working to improve oral and vision health, access to water and sanitation including menstrual hygiene and road safety.

Education Research: Save the Children’s dedicated researchers, build the capacity of the organization to better understand what works for supporting all children’s learning and development.

Education in Emergencies: Save the Children’s education in emergency programs ensure children return to learning as quickly as possible after the onset of a humanitarian crisis. Children experiencing natural disasters or conflict benefit from our Learning and Well-being in Emergencies approach which provides them with essential academic and socio-emotional skills to start to recover and resume some normalcy in their lives.

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