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Today, World Education and our local partners lead HIV and AIDS prevention and care initiatives in 10 countries around the world, including the United States. Together, we have helped more than 233,741 adults, parents and young people protect themselves and their families against the disease and care for those who are living with HIV. Learn more.
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Welcome to the first edition of World Education eNews! World Education eNews will build a global community of people like you who recognize the power of education to help people transform their own lives and improve conditions in their communities. We look forward to hearing from you and sharing our successes, challenges and progress over the coming year. Thank you for your support and your interest in World Education.
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Tsunami Tragedy
We grieve with the millions of people throughout Southeast Asia who have suffered deeply and are trying to recover from their overwhelming loss, including members of our field teams in Indonesia and India who have lost family members and friends.
World Education's work focuses on long-term development through education and we will continue to diligently pursue our mission despite the obstacles caused by this disaster. Read more
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World Education launches new website! Please visit www.worlded.org.
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Window of Hope
In Ghana's education sector, where HIV infection rates are estimated to be at least double the national rate, many teachers can no longer teach, students drop out of school to take care of sick relatives, and parents are too sick to supervise their children's education. In an effort to reduce the impact of the epidemic on the education sector, World Education developed the "Windows of Hope" curriculum to help teachers inform and protect themselves against HIV and AIDS and help them bring critical HIV information into their classrooms. 
“As we became more aware of our sexuality in secondary school, we also faced peer pressure. This was when many of my classmates started engaging in risky behaviors,” comments a female student at a Teacher Training College in Ghana. “If we had received information about AIDS earlier on and had been aware of the dangers posed by our behavior, perhaps we would have also been able to resist peer pressure. Perhaps then we would have avoided the situations we faced prior to coming to Teacher Training College, like forced sexual activity and unwanted pregnancies.” Read More
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Two new members welcomed to World Education's Board
Charles Ellis, retired CEO of the global publishing firm John Wiley & Sons, and Maryl Georgi, music producer and champion for children's issues, join the World Education Board of Trustees. Read More
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World Education to help more than 80,000 girls go  to school in West Africa
World Education is pleased to announce the launch of the Ambassador's Girls' Scholarship Program, a $16 million initiative that will administer 80,000 scholarships to girls and provide supporting activities in up to 15 countries in West Africa over four years. The objective of the Scholarship Program, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development, is to support the goal of the President's Africa Education Initiative to keep girls in school who would otherwise have no means of continuing their education. Read More
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 The National College Transition Network launched to help more adults in the United States go to college. Building on its five-year partnership with the Nellie Mae Education Foundation, the New England Literacy Resource Center at World Education has supported 25 local communities and more than 40 community colleges across New England in creating adult transition programs. The Network, with on-line resources, is helping more low-income adults move beyond their GED or adult secondary diploma. The Network equips adult basic education practitioners, state adult education directors, researchers and policymakers with the tools they need to develop, test, and evaluate effective transition services. To read more, please visit www.collegetransition.org
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