Monthly Highlights from Children on the Edge

31/3/2023

Every month we receive lots of fantastic news from our programmes, our partners and our wonderful supporters and we know that it can be hard to keep up with it all, so we’ve compiled some of our highlights from the month to share with you.

This month our highlights include Rachel’s OBE ceremony, Iryna’s story and our first video from Kachin State, Myanmar.

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Rachel receives her OBE from Prince William

At the beginning of March our CEO and Co-Founder Rachel Bentley travelled to Windsor Castle to receive her OBE from HRH Prince William.

Rachel said, “It was an honour to attend the ceremony, and we enjoyed the impressive setting of Windsor Castle. Everyone involved was lovely and friendly, as was His Highness, Prince William. We spoke about the beginnings of Children on the Edge and our work on refugee education, talking particularly about early years learning, as I knew of Princess Catherine’s interest in this area”

See the pictures from the day

Meet Iryna

As the war in Ukraine shows no signs of easing, the Ukrainian families that we’re supporting in Romania and Moldova are no closer to a return home. We spoke to Iryna Gorbachova who fled to Romania with her daughter and parents last year. She told us how she expected to be gone for a few weeks, but a year later, her family, like so many other Ukrainian families, are having to adjust to life away from their homes in Ukraine longer term.

Read Iryna's story

Find out how we are supporting the youngest displaced children in Myanmar

Exclusive footage from our early years programme in Myanmar

We support 15 preschools (Early Childhood Development centres) in Myanmar, where 500 of the youngest displaced children in Kachin State access quality early years education and support. The camps where we work are virtually inaccessible and communities are cut off from basic services and support. This year, for the first time in a decade our partners (Kachin Development Group) in Myanmar have been able to send us video footage of the early years programme we support.