By IsraAID Staff | IsraAID Dominica
Last month, we celebrated International Day of Education. This day is a global celebration of everyone's fundamental right to education. Access to education of all kinds - language, mathematics, skills training - creates long-term impact, providing livelihoods opportunities, teaching vulnerable communities about their rights, and supporting refugees integrate into their new communities.
Over the past few years since IsraAID first arrived in Dominica, we've embarked on quite a few education initiatives, seeking to educate and engage schools and communities across Dominica.
After hurricane Maria, IsraAID Dominica set up Child Friendly Spaces across the island to provide psychosocial support to children and educational opportunities, continuing to provide children with some sort of normality while everything around them was changing.
As the world came face-to-face with the dreaded COVID-19 pandemic, we provided all primary schools on the island with PPE, including included hygiene posters, hand soap dispensers and hand soap. During the COVID-19 lockdown, we recognized the need to keep children engaged in learning opportunities and so we created a virtual recreation room where children could participate in fun learning activities.
In July 2021, we embarked on an Early Childhood Development Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) project where we went to schools to engage preschoolers in a learning session and art and craft activity on DRR.
Last year we also piloted a program using Plethora technology where 5th and 6th grade students were able to improve on their mathematical and scientific skills.
As we dive into our programming for 2022, we are excited to continue our work in the Education sector, working more with young children and their families on how to prepare children for disasters in our DRR project, and how children can be active actors in the case of a crisis. In our DRR project, we will also be working in special education skills to engage students with different abilities.
Thanks you for supporting us as we work to ensure the people of Dominica are prepared for future disasters.
By IsraAID Staff | IsraAID Dominica
By IsraAID Staff | IsraAID Dominica
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