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One year of CITIES: lessons learnt for urban preschool education

With the CITIES project, VVOB and the city of Da Nang (Vietnam) are exploring ways to mitigate urban barriers to preschool learning and to help teachers rediscover the benefits of life and education in the city.

Vietnam

Early education

Teachers

Playfully teaching emergent literacy in Zambia's preschools

Learning to read is a very complex process that starts at an early age, well before formal instruction is involved in primary school. As part of the USAID Let's Read project, VVOB supports early childhood teachers in implementing play-based emergent literacy activities to ensure a smooth...

Zambia

Early education

Teachers

Resilience and play at heart of VVOB’s latest education projects

VVOB is building back better with new projects in cooperation with Mastercard Foundation and LEGO Foundation.

Rwanda

South Africa

Vietnam

Zambia

Early education

Secondary education

Primary education

Partnerships

In pictures: EU, Belgium Ambassadors visit Vietnam preschools

In December, VVOB received high-level visitors to some of our pilot preschools in Vietnam. EU Ambassador Giorgio Aliberti and Belgian Ambassador Paul Jansen learnt more about the projects co-financed by their institutions: GENTLE and BaMi respectively.

Vietnam

Early education

Gender

Equity

Partnerships

Removing urban barriers to learning for cities’ most vulnerable preschoolers

With our new CITIES project in Vietnam, VVOB maximises the positive potential of urbanisation by ensuring that all children in the city can benefit from quality early childhood education.

Vietnam

Early education

Equity

Linking early childhood education classrooms to develop global identities

Three Belgian teachers involved in a SchoolLink with a Zambian school share how putting preschoolers in contact with peers who act, speak or look different supports the development of global citizenship skills.

Belgium

Zambia

Early education

Teachers

#AfricaPlay: learning through play and South-South exchanges

End February, VVOB colleague from Vietnam Quynh Chau presented our work on play-based learning in the Asian country to a primarily African audience at Africa Play Conference in South Africa.

Vietnam

South Africa

Early education

Teachers

Belgian Minister of Development Cooperation endorses GRP4ECE toolkit

Alexander De Croo received his own copy of the GRP4ECE toolkit and said: "This gives girls genuine equal opportunities."...

Global

Belgium

Early education

Teachers

Gender

Teachers dismantle gender stereotypes with GRP4ECE toolkit

VVOB, Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE) and public education partners in Rwanda, South Africa and Zambia have joined forces to develop a practical approach to gender-responsive pedagogy for early childhood education teachers: the GRP4ECE toolkit.

Global

Early education

Gender

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