In 2018, for five weeks, my sister went to Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon, to help restore a technical middle school for girls. She was part of a group of young French people that flew to Cameroon to join a group of young Cameroonians in order to work together. Before leaving, they raised funds to…
Education, in its widest sense, is the process through which the goals and habits of a group of people are passed down from generation to generation. In general, it happens as a result of any event that has a formative influence on how one thinks, feels, or acts. However, despite Ghana’s efforts to deliver outstanding…
In a society where reading and writing skills are often taken for granted because they are considered elementary, one must realise that access to education is a privilege, not the entire world population can afford. The inability to read or write is referred to as illiteracy. According to the UNESCO’s Institute for Statistics, even if…
Nowadays, social media are part of our lives. They can be useful, entertaining, fun, informative, and educational, they offer a space to broadcast what you are and your interests, they can also help create communities: it depends on the use you make of them. Unfortunately, they have drawbacks too: they can be harmful to our…
What is child marriage? Child marriage is a formal or informal union between a girl or a boy under the age of eighteen and an adult or another child. As a result of gender disparity, the majority of child marriages are between girls and men. This practice endangers the freedom of choice of too many…
Within Europe, the education systems are very different from one another. If the study programme is more or less the same, the way it is structured can vary across different areas. HOW DOES IT WORK? In Europe, there are three main different models of the school system; single structure education, the offer of a…
Mr. Caia is a Professor of Italian Sign Language at Ca’ Foscari University, in Venice. He was born in 1976 in Siracuse (Sicily) from deaf parents and he is deaf himself. In his family, they all use Italian Sign Language to communicate with each other. They found out about his deafness when he was attending…
WHAT HAPPENED? As of the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, schools in many countries around the world had to switch from the usual face-to-face classes to online teaching. Although social distancing in schools had already been tested, the authorities are still concerned about the unsatisfactory results. It has been almost a year now…
Nelson Mandela said that “there can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children”. The children have always been one of the most vulnerable groups in society, with particular attention to those living in contexts of armed conflicts. From physical to psychological violence, from migration to…
Albinism is a rare, stable, non-contagious, genetic condition characterized by lack of pigment in a person’s hair, skin, and eyes, causing vulnerability to sun exposure. In Sub-Saharan Africa people with albinism face profound social stigma and isolation, due to the negative myths that surround the condition. Being affected by albinism means undergoing superstition, amputation and…
