When Covid hit in March 2020, and most of the world went into lockdown, one of the aspects of life that was hit the hardest was schools. Across the world, children everywhere suddenly found themselves unable to go to school, as the buildings were closed and everyone told to stay…
St Joseph’s School in Nallajeerla is run by our Indian CRED Partner Faith In Action Ministries. Set up by FIAM’s founder, Janaki Menni, over twelve years ago, it has been providing high quality education to children from the local district ever since. Some of these children are orphans and or…
When Rwanda came out of lockdown, certain conditions were imposed on the schools before they were able to reopen. One of those conditions was access to handwashing facilities for all the children. Another was having enough desks that children can sit just two to a desk, and not three or…
The start of 2021 meant that all children at Spurgeons were finally allowed to return to school, along with the rest of Kenyan students. Before that, only the children who were taking school leaving exams were able to attend classes, and even that was after 8 months of no schooling…
For the children at Spurgeons Academy in Kibera slum in Kenya, when schools closed in March 2020 due to the coronavirus lockdown, that was the end of access to education for them for that year. Homeschooling just isn’t an option when your home is 3m x 3m, housing an average…
