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For every child, a classroom
With the start of the new school year around the corner, children play football and watch as builders add the finishing touches to their school. Thanks to the MSC Foundation, 150 preschool students from Abidjan’s Yopougon district will start the new school year in brand-new classrooms. Traoré Yamoussa, 8, comes fr...
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For every child, green champions
At the Toumodi-Sakassou primary school, in the centre of Côte d'Ivoire, Andy Costa, 42, teaches gardening to students as part of the green schools project. Andy is an ecologist and the founder of My dream for Africa , an organisation that raises the awareness of African countries on ecological issues and the use o...
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The hands that build the recycled plastic bricks classrooms
Diarrassouba Mory, 23-year-old, is helping to build a school made of recycled plastic bricks in Odienné, in the north-west of Côte d'Ivoire where UNICEF is supporting the government to build classrooms in a new and innovative way. Mory doesn’t live far from the school he is building. "This initiative makes me hap...
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A new classroom made of recycled plastic bricks for Ange Emmanuel
Ange Emmanuel, 10 years old, lives in Sangouine, in the West of Côte d’Ivoire. He is happy with his new classroom built with recycled plastic bricks. “Before there was a lot of dust in the class and the blackboard was so grey, we could hardly read what was written on it. When it rained, we all got wet. Animals c...
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A future for every child by beating plastic pollution
Our challenges, icone dechets unicef, Pollution, 288 tonnes of plastic waste is produced everyday in Abidjan and only 5% of it is recycled., icone enfants unicef, Health, 60% of cases of malaria, diarrhea and pneumonia in children are due to bad waste management., icone ecole unicef, Education, 1.6 million chi...