April 13, 2010

Africa day 2010 (24 April 2010)

The Africa day is the largest national public event on Africa and development cooperation in The Netherlands, with more than 50 political debates, workshops, lectures, and cultural programs. Evert vermeer stichting (EVS) organizes this event yearly. Africa day attracts over 2,000 visitors each year, over 150 national and international guest speakers, and fifty cooperation organisations contribute to this event. HIRDA is one of the organisations that will be organising workshops during the Africa day this year. Our workshop is entitled “Enabling education in conflict-affected African countries: delivering quality education, is it possible?”

Education is a basic human right for all children, including those in conflict affected countries. Education is not relief activity; it is central to human and national development. Armed conflict creates large populations of displaced people and exposes children to serious risks. Young people, living through conflict face injury, trauma and death, as well as the prospect of being forced into exploitative labor or military servitude as child soldiers or sex slaves. Many girls continue to face obstacles to education, such as the lack of, and distance to schools, restrict condition in radical group controlled area and early marriage. In many conflict countries, insecurity, including targeted attacks against schools, continues to hamper childrens ability to attend school, while various minority groups and children with disabilities have also been denied their right to public education or the absence of proper schools of those groups.

Although the number of out-of-school primary-age children in the world has fallen from 100 million to 72 million in recent years, the situation in conflict-affected countries has seen little improvement. These countries are home to half of all the children out of school worldwide.

This session will focus on the education in conflict countries in Africa.
• This workshop will discuss the following sub-themes :
• Education system in a stateless country, what are the challenges?
• The role of female teacher in girls education in conflict countries

Online education in conflict countries , is this option to reach more young people to prevent more conflict?

Date and Time:   24-04-2010 at 11.00 a.m to 12.30 p.m
Category:           Informative debate
Speakers:          Marian Abkow (Unicef Somalia), Alessandra Tranquilli
                          (African Education Trust), Ineke Aquarius (Butterfly Works)
Facilitator:        Andrew Makkinga

language: English

For the registration follow this link:

http://www.afrikadag.nl/workshops/ochtend/hirda_education