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19 December 2024

Learning Skills and Entrepreneurship for Resilient Futures

As the sun sets over Cox’s Bazar on a warm Tuesday evening, crowds of visitors flock to Laboni Beach Point to attend the International Tourist Fair. Among the fair’s 200 shops are 16-year-olds Nipa and Jesmin standing in front of two adjacent stalls filled with handcrafted wares that they and their peers created. ...

22 February 2024

From child labour to education

Nur was only seven when he fled from his home in Myanmar in 2017 with his parents and siblings. Since then, he has been residing in the sprawling refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, where displacement is a daily reality and child labour has become a norm for many Rohingya families. The issue of violence against children...

Ten-year-old Shohana learns to read again after COVID-19 school closures

The last of four children, ten-year-old Shohana’s prospects are much better than those of her older siblings who had to drop out of school. Shohana dreams of a bigger life, bigger than she has been exposed to in her small home village in Mymensingh, northeast Bangladesh. “I want to be a doctor,” says Shohana. Like...

Survey on Children’s Education in Bangladesh 2021

This extraordinary scale of the impact of school closures was confirmed in the National Survey on Children’s Education in Bangladesh 2021, a joint survey by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics and UNICEF. The survey shows that the hardest hit are the most vulnerable children who have limited access to the Internet...

11 January 2023

“My pen is full”: How single mothers are breaking the cycle of poverty in Cox’s Bazar

“There was nothing else I could think about. She was on my mind all the time,” says Minuara, remembering the time when she had to give up her six-year-old child to an orphanage, and her voice breaks. She had been raising her daughter Akhimoni as a single mother. Her husband, a fisherman, went to the sea when Minua...

Education

The challenge, Bangladesh faces a number of challenges in providing accessible and quality education to all children and adolescents. Only 19 per cent of children aged 3-5 attend an early childhood education programme. Despite Bangladesh’s success in near universal enrolment in primary education among both girls a...

Ema wades through floodwaters in Bangladesh to continue learning

Ema is terrified of the floodwaters that have caused more than 800 schools to close in north-eastern Bangladesh, including her own school: a UNICEF-supported learning centre in Sunamganj. The worst flooding to hit this area in years has devastated homes, damaged crops and cut off access to villages across five dis...

UNICEF: Education milestone for Rohingya refugee children as Myanmar curriculum pilot reaches first 10,000 children

COX’S BAZAR, 1 May 2022 – A breakthrough for Rohingya refugee children living in the Cox’s Bazar refugee camps in Bangladesh sees the first 10,000 children enrolled to receive education based on the national curriculum of their home country Myanmar. This milestone will be reached this month. The Myanmar Curriculum...

16 September 2021

Supporting your child’s mental health during COVID-19 school returns

The coronavirus outbreak has caused major disruptions to daily life and children are feeling these changes deeply. While the return to school will be not only welcome but exciting for many students, others will be feeling anxious or frightened. Here are tips to help your children navigate some of the complicated e...

First day of school 'indefinitely postponed' for 140 million first-time students around the world – UNICEF

NEW YORK/DHAKA, 24 August 2021 – A child's first day of school – a landmark moment for the youngest students and their parents around the world – has been delayed due to COVID-19 for an estimated 140 million young minds, UNICEF said in a new analysis released as summer break comes to end in many parts of the world...

08 December 2020

Bangladeshi children share experiences of remote learning and the challenges they face

Around 42 million children continue to be affected by COVID-19 school closures in Bangladesh, leaving students with little option but to rely on remote learning. However, not all students have access to digital technology and in many cases, students find virtual classes fall short of their expectations and learnin...

30 September 2020

5 ways to help keep children learning during the COVID-19 pandemic

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has upended family life around the world. School closures, working remotely, physical distancing — it’s a lot to navigate for parents to navigate. Robert Jenkins, UNICEF’s Global Chief of Education, offers five tips to help keep children’s education on track while they’r...