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We believe in every child’s right to a quality, safe, inclusive and transformational education that empower children for life. Our work enables families, communities and schools to provide nurturing care with playful and effective pedagogy.

Education

Our Impact

4,006,631

Children supported through education programmes

in 66 countries via 497 projects

35,106

Children with disabilities supported by educational programmes

21,272

Teachers Trained

In 37 countries

including 4,374 ECD Teachers

86% of the trained teachers were observed through MEQA

194,810

Parents and Community Literacy Facilitators Trained

Including 17,725 community literacy facilitators trained on Unlock Literacy Community Action

383,448

Reading materials distributed

across 20 countries via 187 projects

1,345,893

Quality Programmes reached

In 33 countries

69,912 were adolescents and young people
985,577 via Unlock Literacy interventions
290,404 3-6 year olds attended ECD centres

A world with education for all

We are making progress. But there’s more to be done. All children have the right to a safe, inclusive and quality education. We want all children to be educated for life, in a safe and nurturing environment, in order to lead productive and fulfilling lives.

Our unique, community-led, whole child model, refined and expanded over our 70-year history, helps establish sustainable child wellbeing solutions. Our education programme focuses on improving the access to and quality of learning opportunities for all children from birth, through childhood and adolescence.

We measure our success by the positive improvements in children’s learning outcomes in cognitive, social and emotional, life and livelihood skills. Our digital survey tool, MEQA, enables on the ground, real time implementation assessment and coaching; and provides detailed, accessible data for project management decisions.

We work hard to reach the most vulnerable children such as those in extreme poverty, with disabilities, out-of-school children, and affected by crises. Our approach fits and adapts continuously to diverse and rapidly changing contexts across the development, humanitarian and peace nexus.

We work with local partners to drive the social behaviour change required to address obstacles to children’s developmental and learning journey. In coalition with others we strengthen education systems at household, community, national and global levels.

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Our education programmes around the world

Map showing World Vision's educational programmes around the world

The importance of the 2nd 1000 days of a child

Following the first 1,000 days of life that span from conception to two years of age, the ‘next 1,000 days’ of a child’s life from two to five years of age offer a window of opportunity to promote nurturing and caring environments, establish healthy behaviors, and build on early gains to sustain or improve trajectories of healthy development. This webinar will officially launch the new two-part Lancet series on early childhood development, set to be released on November 19.

Watch World Vision videos from across the world on the importance of a child's first 2000 days.

World Vision's Catch-Up educational programme

Our approaches to change

Catch Up Programme

While COVID disrupted education around the world, for millions of children this was not the first interruption to their education and it will not be the last. The Catch Up Programme is an adaptable approach to support children at the highest risk to build foundational skills and return to education through community-based clubs.

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Go Baby Go images of mother and children

Go Baby Go (GBG)

Go Baby Go (GBG) is a project model that aims to provide a strong foundation for kids in their first 2,000+ days of life (Ages 0-6 years old). It strengthens knowledge, skills and resilience-promoting parenting behaviours so they can better fulfil their roles as first teachers and first protectors. With a "dual approach" that includes group sessions and targeted home visits, Go Baby Go also provides caregivers with planning and self-care strategies which promote agency and well-being at the family and community levels. Go Baby Go is a holistic parenting programme that can be implemented independently or integrated into health, nutrition, WASH, livelihoods and other relevant delivery platforms in developing, fragile and emergency contexts. Find out more about our Early Childhood Development approach that targets the first 2,000+ days of a child's life.

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Learning Roots

Learning Roots is a play-based learning approach that supports holistic development of children from age three through six. Learning Roots lays the foundation for successful transition to primary school and life-long learning. It engages caregivers so that they can provide nurturing care; works to strengthen quality of local ECD centres by training teachers and creating safe, playful learning environments; and strengthens systems to foster sustainable support for children by working with local and national networks. Find out how to assist with the earliest years of a child’s life are a window of opportunity to support the emergence of literacy, numeracy and life skills.

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Unlock Literacy

Globally, 70% of children in low and middle income countries live in learning poverty, and even if they attend school, are not able to read and understand a simple text. Unlock Literacy is World Vision's evidence-based approach to ensuring children, especially the most vulnerable, read with comprehension and develop a love of learning, working in partnership with children, their families, communities, teachers, schools, and education systems. Find out how to assist unlocking literacy for lifelong learning outcomes.

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Girls Education

Poverty, discrimination and exploitation keep millions of girls out of school. What's more, half of all girls in developing countries don't even finish primary school. This represents a very limited future for not only millions of girls but entire communities and countries.

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Positive Youth Development

Positive Youth Development (PYD) is a conceptual framework for a multi-sectoral, assets based approach to adolescent and youth development. In contrast to deficit-based approaches to development, which focus on correcting problems on behalf of young people as targets of development interventions, PYD focuses on empowering young people as positive agents of change. By strengthening their intellectual, physical, social, and emotional competence, PYD programmes recognise the potential for young people to be a leading source of change in their own lives and communities. Investing in the world’s 1.8 billion adolescents and youth is critical to increasing returns on early childhood gains and on the evolving capacities of young people.

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