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Children attend class at Kisojo Model Primary School in Uganda. UNICEF supports the school with textbooks, training for teachers, promotion of girls’ education, and assistance with sanitation and hygiene programmes.

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On 4 January, a girl stands inside Consolation Elementary School in the city of Cagayan de Oro in the Philippines. The school was damaged by floods from Tropical Storm Washi. Eight of the city’s schools are being used as evacuation centres, and 12 were flood-affected. Despite major challenges, schools reopened on 3 January, but needs remain great.

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Today marks the two-year anniversary of the earthquake that killed some 220,000 Haitians, displaced more than 1.6 million and destroyed vital infrastructure. Progress since the quake has been substantial, including for children.

Here children complete a year-end final examination at Mamalu Kindergarten et École Fondamentale Mixte (Mamalu Kindergarten and Primary School) in Port-au-Prince, the capital. The school, which collapsed during the earthquake, was rebuilt by UNICEF in a semi-permanent facility, allowing children to return to school as quickly as possible and to regain a sense of normalcy after the disaster.

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A deaf girl practices sign language with her teacher during a speech therapy class in a boarding school for children with disabilities, in the southern coastal city of Lenkaran in Azerbaijan.

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A third-grade student practices arithmetic on a blackboard at the UNICEF-supported Madina Elementary and Junior High School in the town of Madina in Liberia.

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