Efforts to encourage girls from ethnic minority groups to go to school

>> Children of the 54 ethnic groups of Vietnam in the spotlight
>> UNESCO launches campaign to promote girls’ education

The campaign calls for preserving the progress made in girls ‘education, ensuring its continuity while schools are closed, and promoting girls’ safe return to school when schools reopen. It also highlights the 130 million girls who were already out of school before the pandemic and calls on the international community to unite urgently to guarantee their right to education.

The multilingual campaign #Educational continuity includes a launch video, social media kits, how-to kits for radio and youth-led organizations, as well as a girls’ back-to-school guide, allowing partners to reach out to different audiences and to stakeholders. Powerful real-life stories from girls around the world are also featured throughout this massive campaign. A wealth of knowledge and resources on girls’ and women’s education is also available on the campaign’s home page.

In Vietnam, this is being implemented within the framework of the “WE ARE ABLE (Achieving Better Living and Education) “, promoting gender equality and education for girls from ethnic minority groups. The project is carried out by UNESCO, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Training and the Ethnic Affairs Committee, with a support for the South Korean group CJ It aims to promote education for girls from ethnic minorities living in Hà Giang (North), Ninh Thuân (Center) and Soc Trang (South).

Many authors from the Tày, Thái, Êđê, H’mông, Muong, Sán Chay, Xtiêng, Khmer, Hoa, Cham, Kinh ethnic groups) … have sent real life stories of girls and women to UNESCO Vietnam, including that of a woman of the Tày ethnic group who had walked 40 km to school and who later became a successful businesswoman.

UNESCO brings these stories to the children of ethnic minorities, their parents and the community in the localities concerned.

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