A Good Education For Every Child

A Good Education For Every Child

The chance to learn can change a child’s life

Every child has the right to an education – whatever their background, gender or ethnicity. Child Safe Foundation wants to see a world where all children enjoy this right.

Yet every day, more than 61 million children don’t attend their primary schools. Without the opportunity to learn, children can’t develop to their full potential. They’re more likely to be trapped in cycles of poverty, poor health and forced labour – often in dangerous environments.

CSF supports innovative programmes that give the most vulnerable children the chance to learn. We work with governments, communities and parents to enable every child to access a quality education.

Every year we help millions of children get an education – for example by providing textbooks and classroom kits, or by setting up child-friendly spaces where children can keep learning, even during a conflict or natural disaster.

• 57,000

  In 2019 alone, CSF provided school books and other learning materials to 57 thousand children around the world

Breaking down barriers to education

Cousins Nabila and Gisma started attending classes at a CSF-supported learning centre in Khartoum, Sudan in 2016. For both girls it was their first experience of going to school. “Most of the students have never received education before, and they have a huge desire to learn,” says Egbal, a volunteer teacher at the centre.

The centre is one of over 2,500 across Sudan, designed for children who’ve never attended school, who’ve dropped out of school or who are so far behind they can’t return to mainstream education without first catching up on missed years of learning.

In Sudan and all over the world, we work with governments and communities to remove the barriers which stop children attending school, and to make sure all schools are child-centred, inclusive, safe and healthy places – in other words, child-friendly!