This year, activities and funds raised for UNICEF Day for Change will focus on UNICEF’s projects to improve education for children in Mozambique.

Since the end of years of conflict in 1992, children in Mozambique now have much better opportunities to learn than before.

However, education in the country faces many challenges, such as lack of teaching materials, trained teachers and basic infrastructure like classrooms and water points.

While the enrolment rate for children in Mozambique is as high as 83 per cent, over half of primary school aged students leave school before completing grade five. Many of them are girls, orphans, or otherwise particularly vulnerable children, such as those affected by HIV/AIDS. Without an education, the situation for these children is unlikely to get better.

UNICEF projects in Mozambique are establishing Child Friendly Schools, which help get children into school and keep them there by providing essential health and sanitation facilities, and also engaging community participation to get more children to enrol for and stay in school.

Your participation in UNICEF Day for Change will provide much needed funds to provide quality education for more children in Mozambique.

Click here for further information on Mozambique.

Click here for more information on UNICEF’s projects to establish Child-Friendly Schools in Mozambique

Click here to read the story of Esperança Soul, a girl in Mozambique attending a Child-Friendly school.

Click here to register your school for UNICEF Day for Change.

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