Postcards from the Edge

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Postcards from the edge

222 Million Dreams✨📚: Postcards from the Edge

Children worldwide are being denied their basic human right to an education. Conflict, climate change, displacement and other crises are pushing them to the edge. To highlight the amazing stories of perseverance and hope emerging on the frontlines, we asked the girls and boys benefitting from ECW investments to tell us, in their own words, what education means to them. These ‘Postcards from the Edge’ are a living testament to the remarkable power of education to transform lives. They are a celebration of the human spirit and a call to action for leaders across the globe to stand up for the world’s most vulnerable children to realize their dreams of an education. 

Featured Postcards ✉️

Tabarak's Drawing

Zawad*, 11, Bangladesh

"I have a dream. I want to be an English teacher. Because teaching is the best profession."

 

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Lucas*, 14, DRC

"I ask world leaders and UNHCR to think of us refugee children and provide funding to let us finish our studies."

 

Drouillard's drawing

Darline*, 14, Haiti

"My dream for Haiti is for the Haitian state to change. Stop corruption, let businesses be built so that all young people can find work."

Postcards from the Edge

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Tabarak's Drawing
11-year-old Zawad* from Bangladesh wants his community and family in to prioritize education. He dreams of becoming an English teacher.
drawing
Huma*, from Pakistan, dreams of changing the lives of young people in her country as a teacher.
Yorlin drawing
Paola*, in Colombia, had her education interrupted when she moved from Venezuela. She dreams of becoming a chef.
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Abdul*, a young child from Afghanistan, is thankful for the opportunities he's been given to go to school while many others can't.
Johnny Drawing
Jamal* from South Sudan faced tribal conflict that made him flee his village at age six. He dreams of becoming a pilot.

 

*All names included on Postcards from the Edge have been changed for safeguarding and protection.