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Dame Lesley Max, CEO of Great Potentials Found, describes how the Perach tutorial program has been adapted in New Zealand to help disadvantaged children. The Perach program, established in Israel has been adapted throughout the world.
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The Golda Meir Mount Carmel International Training Center (MCTC), founded by MASHAV, Israel's Agency for International Development Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. This year's conference is organized in cooperation with UNESCO under the auspices of MASHAV. Participants in the conference include the UN Deputy Secretary General, Dr. Asha-Rose Migiro and UNESCO's Director General, Mrs. Irina Bokova, in addition to distinguished ministers, members of parliament and academics from close to 50 countries and international organizations. In this video, the Center's Director, Mazal Renford and Haim Divon, Head of MASHAV, speak about the history of the MCTC and the activities promoted by the center. These activities include community building, early childhood education, micro enterprise development and much more.
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An important development in Nepal is showing how local control of local schools makes a difference. They experimented with this project by seeing how important community involvement was in the enrollment of children in schools. They have found it to be crucial and enrollments in these pilot programs has gone way up in only a few years. The poorest of the poor, the lowest caste in the country, has a 72% enrollment up from a previous enrollment of 50%.
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With assistance from the World Bank, India has upgraded and improved their quality of higher education institutions, colleges, and programs. Their biggest obstacle has been staying up-to-date with high-tech. Now, they are upgrading their technological and engineering systems as well as their teaching methods in order to get more of their citizens into the engineering sector.
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India has also launched an “Education for All” program in an effort to reach more children in the country, especially those who suffer from poverty and live in rural communities. Thanks to help from the World Bank, this generation of students is learning from new teaching methods that encourage interaction and group work. It has been especially successful amongst girls.
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The expansion in Yemen of education seems to have been successful especially for the rural population and specifically for women and girls. By implementing female teachers in the classroom, families are incentivized to send their young girls to learn in those classes.
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