UNICEF: Tsunami 5: Building child-friendly schools in Maldives

http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/maldives_52236.html

MEEDHOO, Raa Atoll, Maldives, 22 December 2009 - The session is interactive, spontaneous and fun. Led by a teacher who turns the pages on a book to reveal different animals, the children eagerly raise their hands wanting to mimic the sound each makes. This pre-school has, like so many other schools here, undergone a child-friendly transformation since the tsunami five years ago.

For UNICEF in the Maldives, the profound change in the education system has been one of the most satisfying achievements in restoring the islands to normalcy.

Today, if you meet any child who has just graduated from a child-friendly school, said Mansoor Ali, UNICEF Representative in the Maldives, he or she is bright, responsive, very confident and quite knowledgeable about the world.

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• UNICEF
• Tsunami
• Maldives
• Southeast
• Asia
• Meedhoo
• child-friendly
• schools
• children
• education

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