HELP US GET CHILDREN BACK TO SCHOOL
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SIGN UP TODAY AND GET A FREE ORGANIC TOTE BAG
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As a thank you for choosing to make a regular donation, we're sending a limited edition Children on the Edge organic cotton tote bag to the first 200 people who sign up to give a monthly gift of at least £5 before the end of September.
Terms and Conditions: available for new regular donors signing up for the first time, who sign up during August and September, giving at least £5 a month. Limited run of 200 bags available for the first 200 new sign ups. Final bag design is to be confirmed and the image shown is not representative of the final bag. you will receive. Tote bags will be packed and posted by Children on the Edge, posted 2nd class on the 15th of October 2021. |
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WHY GIVE MONTHLY?Regular monthly donations ensure that we can provide reliable support through uncertain times. Your support can help us get over 16,000 children back to school and support them transition back to the classroom as coronavirus restrictions slowly ease around the world. We’ll keep you updated with how your money is being spent and always use your donations to help those most in need. For every £1 donated to Children on the Edge, 89p is spent on our projects supporting marginalised children, and 11p is spent on fundraising the next £1. 
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GETTING BACK TO SCHOOL IN INDIA
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In July, as restrictions in India began to lift, our Learning Centres were able to open their doors to students again after months of strict lockdown. The children are delighted to be back, and are currently attending classes every other day. Our Computer Classroom is also back open.
Our classrooms offer a much needed safe space where Dalit children can learn, play and grow. Our teachers will be supporting them to recover from the trauma of the past year and they will allow plenty of time for talking, listening to the children, and offering counselling. Please consider making a monthly gift to ensure that we can continue to help children get back to school and support them as they transition back to the classroom. Children on the Edge supports 31 Learning Centres in Bihar State, India who offer education to over 970 Dalit children. |
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IT CLASSES FOR DALIT CHILDREN >> |
FURTHER EDUCATION FOR TEENS IN INDIA >> |
CLASSROOMS OPEN AGAIN IN INDIA >> |
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Our Computer Centre has proved to be a vital resource for Dalit children throughout lockdown and we're pleased it's open and offering lessons again >>
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Read about our programme to support older Dalit children to continue their education >>
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Our classrooms in India are open again and supporting the children in the wake of the pandemic >>
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GETTING BACK TO SCHOOL IN LEBANON
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Our school in Zahle, Lebanon was able to reopen on the 31st May 2021 and all 300 students returned to classes. Throughout lockdown the children were constantly asking teachers when they could go back to school.
Vocational, computing and extra curricular lessons also resumed in June, giving opportunities for the children to learn sewing, carpentry, IT, dance and football. Project Officer Bethany Lanier says, “The joy on their faces as they try something new and have that sense of accomplishment is priceless”. Children on the Edge has been supporting education for 300 Syrian refugee children since 2015. Our work in Lebanon is generously supported by the Players of the People's Postcode Lottery. |
LEARNING THROUGH LOCKDOWN
Throughout the pandemic, we have been providing more than 16,000 children with quality education and support despite our schools being closed for most, if not all of the past 18 months. The children we work with face continual barriers to learning, so for us, this was just the next set of obstacles.
Lockdown learning involved radio lessons, phone lessons, lessons under trees, in tents, in teachers homes and in student’s homes. Backpacks were even stuffed with bright learning materials and carried to children in the most remote mountain areas in Myanmar. School bus drivers in Lebanon turned into delivery drivers, dropping hundreds of lesson packs to the doorways of refugee tents.
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CORONAVIRUS: SUPPORTING COMMUNITIES >>Find out how we have been supporting those communities who have been hardest hit by coronavirus >>
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