Our goals

Poor access to education can undermine people’s potential to improve their lives. The International Rescue Committee provides children, youth and adults with educational opportunities that help keep them safe and learning the skills they need to survive and thrive.
Ensure that children aged 0 to 5 develop cognitive and social-emotional skills

Ensure that children aged 0 to 5 develop cognitive and social-emotional skills


How we get there:

 

  • Supporting parents in providing consistent, nurturing and supportive behaviours towards young children, including engaging in supportive play and learning activities
  • Providing young children with access to quality early childhood development, care and pre-primary education

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Ensure that school-aged children develop literacy, numeracy and social-emotional skills

Ensure that school-aged children develop literacy, numeracy and social-emotional skills


How we get there:

 

  • Creating quality learning spaces in formal schools and informal education settings, such as community-based education and accelerated learning programmes for children who have missed years of schooling
  • Providing teaching and learning materials so teachers and facilitators are equipped to teach meaningful lessons

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Ensure that youth and adults have high levels of livelihood, literacy, numeracy and social-emotional skills

Ensure that youth and adults have high levels of livelihood, literacy, numeracy and social-emotional skills


How we get there:

 

  • Providing learning opportunities that teach employment-related and trade-specific technical skills, such as budgeting, accounting and marketing
  • Supporting the development of social and emotional skills people need to control emotions, set goals, make decisions, persevere and bounce back in the face of setbacks

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Our impact

1.3 Million

Syrian mothers at Arbat camp in Iraq wouldn’t sit by as their daughters lost an education. Instead, they took action.

children with schooling and educational opportunities.

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54,000

Sinan is part of the IRC's Healing Classrooms initiative, which trains educators in teaching techniques that help students in conflict zones to feel safe and to learn.

educators with training and supported 7,959 schools.

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27,000+

We help ensure that youth and adults have high levels of livelihood, literacy, numeracy and social-emotional skills.

people with job­-related skills training.

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