Lack of access to education and poor quality of available schools can undermine people’s potential to have successful futures. The IRC provides children, youth and adults with safe, quality educational opportunities that help them learn the skills they need to survive and thrive.
Ensure that children aged 0 to 5 develop cognitive and social-emotional skills
How we get there:
- Supporting parents in providing consistent, nurturing and supportive behaviors towards young children, including engaging in supportive play and learning activities;
- Providing young children with access to quality early childhood development, care and pre-primary education.
Ensure that school-aged children develop literacy, numeracy and social-emotional skills
How we get there:
- Creating quality learning spaces in formal schools and informal education settings, such as community-based education and accelerated learning programs for children who have missed years of schooling;
- Providing teaching and learning materials so teachers and facilitators are equipped to teach meaningful lessons.
Ensure that youth and adults have high levels of livelihood, literacy, numeracy and social-emotional skills
How we get there:
- Providing learning opportunities that teach employment-related and trade-specific technical skills, such as budgeting, accounting and marketing;
- Supporting the development of social and emotional skills people need to control emotions, set goals, make decisions, persevere and bounce back in the face of setbacks.
In 2015, the International Rescue Committee and our partners helped:
1.3 Million
Syrian mothers at Arbat camp in Iraq wouldn’t sit by as their daughters lost an education. Instead, they took action.
54,000
Sinan is part of the IRC's Healing Classrooms initiative, which trains educators in teaching techniques that help students in conflict zones to feel safe and to learn.
27,000+
We help ensure that youth and adults have high levels of livelihood, literacy, numeracy and social-emotional skills.
