Education: Fatna's Story

This collection of resources addresses education. The units highlight the story of a teenager named Fatna who lives in a refugee camp in Chad and has been designed to raise awareness of the impact of gender inequality in education and how it can be overcome. The multimedia and stories in this collection illustrate the issues and challenges of ensuring access to a quality education.

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Learn about Fatna, a girl from Chad who struggles to gain access to education.
6-8
Learn about Fatna, a girl from Chad who struggles to gain access to education.
9-12
In this lesson, students will identify differences between their lives and Fatna's and...
6-8
In this lesson, students will identify differences between their lives and Fatna's and...
9-12
In this lesson, students will identify strategies to acheive gender equality in education.
6-8
In this lesson, students will identify strategies to acheive gender equality in education.
9-12
These visual aids accompany the high school Educator's Guide
9-12
These visual aids accompany the Educator's Guide
6-8
UNICEF is helping to provide access to education to girls in Afghanistan. Attendance is on the rise.
6-8 9-12
A UNICEF partnership with the Assam Branch Indian Tea Association is working to create economic...
6-8 9-12
Read about UNICEF's School-in-a-Box kit, which provides educational resources for up to 80...
6-8 9-12
Watch a video about a child friendly school in Bosnia and Herzegovina. More than a decade after a...
3-5 6-8 9-12
Watch the story of Fatna, a girl from Darfur, forced to take refuge in neighboring Chad, who yearns...
6-8 9-12
UNICEF mobile classrooms provide access to education for children in Uganda.
6-8 9-12
Thirteen-year-old Mulu Melka's soft voice and shy demeanor hide a character marked by courage...
6-8 9-12
Watch an update on MDGs 2 and 3, affecting education and gender equality.
6-8 9-12
Watch a video about how eliminating schools fees in Kenya provides opportunities for more students...
6-8 9-12

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Children affected by armed conflict have new opportunities to access education after the opening of...
6-8 9-12

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Voices of Youth and UNICEF Radio Digital Diarist Chinyanta Chimba reports on child rights from...
6-8 9-12

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UNICEF examines how children are able to access education, twenty years after the ratification of...
6-8 9-12

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In Kandahar women are attending literacy classes for the first time in their lives. The women are...
6-8 9-12

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Michael Lual, 17, reports on families struggling to pay school fees in Southern Sudan.
6-8 9-12

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