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B ARSAKEIO TOSITSEIO JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL IN EKALI GREECE 4th GYMNASIUM OF PREVEZA GREECE LICEO SCIENTIFICO STATALE " G.BERTO" , ITALY NATIONAL COLLEGE GRIGORE GHICA ROMANIA

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Olga Milošević Primary School SERBIA

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STORIES ABOUT CHILDREN WHO LIVE IN COUNTRIES AND ARE DISCRIMINATED BECAUSE OF GENDER AND LACK QUALITY EDUCATION

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I’m Lessenia I am from Malawi in Southern Africa and as a girl I’m not given a chance to go to school. Instead of being encouraged to work hard in school, I’m urged to work hard in household chores and in the fields so I turn out as a hardworking housewife. My parents always assign me a bunch of tasks to do which makes me unable to go far with education, contributing to the high illiteracy rate among women and perpetuating the belief that sending me to school is a waste of resources. To be clear, we girls are looked upon as nothing but inferior individuals born to serve males.

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Athina from Greece

Samia was eleven years old in 2009, when she was forced to drop out of school. Her parents could no longer afford to pay school fees for all of their children.

In Somaliland, traditionally, boys’ education is the priority. She recalls, “I was getting ready for school as normal. Then my mother told me that I would not be going; only my brothers can go to school

EIRINI FROM GREECE

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My name is Ahlam Ahmed. I am 29 years old and I was born in a rural area of Yemen.My mother is illiterate and a victim of early marriage. She divorced my father when was very young. Since her parents died she was left with no family and didn’t have a job that could help her to raise or educate me. She found several part-time jobs but my mother suffered considerable hardship to send me to school. I faced many challenges to have access to education but my mother supported my studies and worked hard to give me an education.

Now am working as an education coordinator at National Foundation for Development and Humanitarian Response (NFDHR), and I am a mother to two children now and I am doing my best to make them highly educated, ambitious and inspiring.

Ahlam Ahmed:

Eleni from GREECE

My name is Yié, I am 13 years old and I attend the classical high school in Limako. The only one among 800 children of the Baka pygmy ethnic group to have reached secondary school. I want to become Minister of Women of Cameroon, so I will fight the phenomenon of precocious weddings that prevent to the girls to study.

Simone R. from Italy

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I’m Sylvia, a little girl who walks every day for an hour and a half along a railway and in the middle of the savannah to go to school. I only have a pair of flip flops, I live in the village of Videnge, Tanzania, where 45% of the people are under the age of 14. I'm 8, my father died and my mother, Marium, remarried a man who considers me a second-rate daughter, an economic burden because I want to study. My mother supports me, like my friend Riziki who unfortunately doesn't go to school with me.

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Francesco R. from Italy

I am Maria and I am 12 years old. I get up at 4 to sell some vegetables at the village market. My mother is sick, my father abandoned us when I was about to be born.

In my opinion, going to school on an empty stomach does not help concentration, going there with tattered clothes causes the laughter of my classmates, yet I go there, after class I go back to the market, my first job.

Francesco A. from italy

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My name is Leila, I am 15 years old and I live in Iran. In Arab culture girls are raised differently from boys, wanting more boys than girls. Schools are separate, and if you are a girl you are not allowed to leave the house alone. Girls are raised to be mothers, not having the right to choose. In the same case I am, and although I go to school I know that in the future I will not be able to become what I want, that is, a doctor.

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I am Laurine, I'm 20 years old and I'm from Kenya. I am a third born in a family of five children, but the first daughter. I attended Asante Africa Foundation school, I am a survivor of forced marriage, an incident that took place when I was 12 years old, when my father agreed a marriage between me and an old man from our area in accordance with local Samburu tradition.

At the time, I was living with my mother, who did everything to give me an education, my father sent a man to bring me to his home. A traditional wedding was planned to take place the next day.

Luckily, my mother and I escaped in the middle of the night by asking a man to take me to my aunt who lives in the nearby town. We walked the whole night and reached my aunt’s home the next morning. After my escape, my aunt took me to school. After securing a scholarship from Asante Africa Foundation.

Today I'm fighting against the Samburu cultural traditions, this tradition from this ancient Kenyan pastoralist tribe which I grew up with. I realized we are the only ones doing these traditions, the other communities are not doing it, I realized that there are things that are not right and I need to make a difference so I decided to start rescuing girls.

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Domenico F. Italy

My father in Afghanistan was forced to sell me when i was 9-year-old to buy food for our family. I was sold for approximately $2,200 to a man who claimed to be 55-years-old.I worried that he was going to beat me and force me to do labor around the house because i was a woman. My parents said they had no other choice, so they had to sell me . As our country's economy collapsed amid the Taliban takeover, my family has become unable to afford any necessities including food to feed themselves me the rest of the family. My dad’s last words was to the old man << Here’s my daughter, she is all yours but i just want you not to beat her>> and the old man responded <<She will be working in my home. I won't beat her. I will treat her like a family member. I will be kind>>.

My father handed me to the old man and we started walking away. I tied to resist but he just grabbed my hand harder and we took me to his car.

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My name is Faridah and my dream since I was little is to be able to sit on a school desk.

When I was 12 a boy molested me, my grandfather after knowing it took me home and beat me, from there he forbade me to go to school.

Then at the age of 15 they forced me to get married, my husband worked in Karachi, a place far from home. But, when he returned, he found that I had resumed studying.

This was a disgrace to him so he hit me and kicked me out of the house.

Now I live with my mom and for the first time I finally feel free to be able to continue my dream.

Giada G. from Italy

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Hi, I'm Annet, I'm 17, I live in Uganda and I'm attending a local secondary school. As is often the case in teenage pregnancies, my parents were very disappointed to the point that they moved me away from home, scared that my great school skills could be adversely affected by the taking care of a child.

For a long time I thought I could not aspire to satisfy the dreams about my future career, in constant fear of becoming the object of mockery of other girls. Not infrequently, in fact, it happens here that teenage mothers end up losing any possibility of integration into the community, even being stripped of their dignity.

Nonetheless, thanks to the support provided by the school matrons and the GAP coordinators of Asante Africa foundation, I was able to overcome the worrying stereotype of teenage pregnancy, putting the entirety of life into perspective.

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My ambition leads me to keep up with the school material, since, after the birth of my child, I want to commit myself to the creation of my own business in order to give financial support to my family.

Michele Solano, Italy

Hi, my name’s May. When I was 12, while I was walking on the way to school, a man, that “had chosen” me, kidnapped me and took me as a prisoner for three days in his house. My brother found out the house where he had hidden me but he decided not to intervene, because the man paid him with some bottles of alcohol and some money. So I was forced to marry this man.

My story is not unique: all over the world there are 10 millions child brides. I can’t stand up to my husband but please, if you are in my situation at the moment, find the force and fight for your woman and child rights, for your future.

Francesca Maria Grenci, from Italy

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Hi, my name is Anna, I am 18 years old and I come from a village in the south of Bulgaria. At the age of 16, I fell prey to Islamists. Because of the material shortcomings, the access to education and the emotional support from the family, I believed everything he promised me. He approached me on the internet, promised me a safe marriage, a life of luxury and money to get to him in Iraq. Delighted by what he promised me, I decided to go to "my future husband". Once I arrived, my documents were taken, I became his slave and victim, and I am threatened with death every time I try to break his word. I feel in a hopeless situation and I would like to leave, but I have no choice. I tried to contact my parents and they promised to do their best to bring SLIDESMANIA.COM

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Teliban Carmen,Romania

Hello, my name is Tarikua Tiqemo. I am 14 years old. I am from Ethiopia. I have a mild learning disability at school. I visit primary school, one of the chosen schools for PIN´s intervention. My mum never send me to school before.

We attempted home schooling. I am still illiterate with a little hope of receiving any education.

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I spent my days at home. I am doing housework. Then visited me PIN´s community workers and convinced my parents to continue my studies. Now I visit my school and my teachers are very nice.

They give me pens and pencils. I can do my homework at home and my school bag to carry all my books. I am very happy, that I can go to school and can everything learn. This is very good for my future life.

Adéla F. CZ

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Nicola Cespites, Italy

Hi my name is Maya, I’m 15 and I’m currently married to Buddha. I live in a remote part of Dolakha district in Nepal.

Inaccessible by road, my village has received very minimal support following the April earthquake. I was forced t marry at a young age and due to the pressures from Buddha's family, I was forced to drop out of school and become a housewife. For the past year, my only occupations tended to be household chores while my friends and neighbours continued to attend the local school. In August of 2015, the mobile team - a group of young community volunteers from earthquake-affected areas trained by Plan International to provide child protection, education and health outreach services, counselling and support - met me in my village. After several weeks of counselling and interventions, and understanding the implications of keeping me from school, Buddha's parents agreed to let me resume my studies.

Hi,my name is Hasan ALfani,I´m 19 years old.I´m learned at Mwayunge Secondary School witch was economically-challenged.I entered to Youth Leadership Club and attended the LEI training. Though i dont continue with my education on Mwayunge Secondary school, my LEI training helps me explore future career opportunites and provided him with skills to develop as he searches for a vocation. Next i studied welding, agriculture, and dreaming of becoming a veterinarian. I also want join military, but after using dream mapping techniques learned at LEI, I moved past all these ideas and began taking care of rabbits, i started just with two.

Now i become the most successful seller of rabbits in my town. Even though my business is located at home, i sell the meat, fur, and manure in markets in Mwanza and Dar es Salaam. Using the skills he learned from YLC, i plan to begin marketing my business through social media. I hope to one day i grow my business to have a large space, modern cages, and better drainage systems.

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Petr Janečka CZ

Idah Savala was born in Malawi,she is a 16 year old bright-eyed and clever girl who has the dream of becoming a doctor to help her country.Her story has a happy ending because she was helped by the AGE(Advancing Girls Education in Africa).She has made a step toward achieving her dream with hard work,motivation and the help from others like The AGE and strangers with a kind hearts.

Life for girls in Malawi is very hard because they cant go to school,because they are not encouraged to continue school and would often get merried at a young age.

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Maftei Adrian,Romania

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● Elisa D.P., a saleswoman-mother in a strenuous balance between home and work, has decided not to accept humiliating treatment. And to fight to assert her rights.

Hindered and pressed by another woman, she promoted and carried out a civil anti-discrimination action. Ten years of life, expenses, renunciations, discouragement, anxiety, temptation to give up, blows. "But I resisted, thanks also to the help of my husband. And I'd do it all again " ● The Florence labor judge had initially given her wrong, at her first appeal. She was not discouraged. She went on appeal. In the end she managed to have dignity and justice.

The commercial company on which she depended and the superior, the partner of the owner, in the second instance were recognized responsible for acts of discrimination related to gender and sentenced to pay 10 thousand euros of moral, existential, psychological damages (against 50 thousand required). ● They will also have to reimburse the expenses incurred by you and the money paid out after the first degree. The Supreme Court definitively closed her case in her favor, with the order 11,113 published at the end of April 2021, rejecting the appeal of the counterparties. ● A. Serra/ Anania

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MY STORY, ALIA I fled my home in Aleppo, Syria and im currently living in Damour, Lebanon. I am sharing my story through Gruppo Aleimar, an Italian NGO which provides free nutritious meals to refugees in the Damour area. Im 7 years old.

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“The last thing I remember of Syria, before we left, was when my mother was taking me from our place to our grandparents. The roads were full of dead corpses. I saw dead people with no heads or no hands or legs. I was so shocked I couldn’t stop crying. To calm me down, my grandfather told me they were mean people, but I still prayed for them, because even if some considered them mean, they were still dead human beings. Back at home, I left a friend in Syria, her name was Rou’a. I miss her a lot and I miss going to school with her. I used to play with her with my Atari but I couldn’t bring it with me. I also used to have pigeons, one of them had eggs, I would feed them and care for them. I’m worried about them, I really pray someone is still caring for them. But here I have a small kitten that I really love! I miss my home a lot. I hope one day we’ll be back and things will be just like before.”

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Hello, my name is Kourosh. I am 17 years old and I am from Iran. It is almost a year and a month since I have been living in refugee camps in Lesbos. Right now, the living conditions on the island are hard. We are dealing with COVID-19, which is dangerous especially in places like refugee camps. And in the last few months, we have also had some problems with the local community. Generally, education is very important to me because I understand that regardless of where you are living, in today’s world it is really hard to have a decent life if you are uneducated. My favorite subjects are IT, math, and physics. I started my high school in Iran and my high school direction was mathematics in hopes of graduating as a computer programmer. Here in Greece, I desire to continue what I have started. By being in school in this situation and seeing other kids, I start to feel a little normal again which helps me forget about my life in the camp or what I have been through. Studying also makes me feel useful again. The hardest thing about studying in a foreign country would be the language. Without knowing the language, it is really hard to get along with the kids and blend in with the class. That was my problem last year. After so many challenges, lots of studying, and with the help of many amazing teachers, I was able to get into one of the top general high schools in Lesvos and I officially became one of the first refugees who entered this school. If you had asked me a year ago, I would have never thought that I would ever be able to study again.

Tereza B. CZ

My story,Bizimana Hi,my name is Bizimana.I was 2 years when my family had to flee the Rwandan genocide to Burundi.From there I moved to camps in Tanzania and now lives in Nairobi, Kenya.I received business start-up training and have established a business that have grown so fast I’m now able to start a cafe service. I’m also a prize-winning singer.

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ELisabetta Falcone from italy

Hi my name is Olitan I was born in Gambia and I am 17 years old, I was 14 years old, when I immigrated to Italy. In Gambia, I went to school until my father was killed one morning while as usual he worked in the market selling fruit. I was left alone and started washing in order to support my mother. One day I told my mother that the only solution was to immigrate because I was earning very little and it wasn't urvive, it was an experience that marked my life. So I arrived in Italy and I was finally able to go back to school now I am attending high school in Syracuse and I am very happy to be able to continue my studies. I will soon turn 18 and will be transferred to an adult institution and will probably not be allowed to continue my studies.enough for two people to survive. My mother was against it but unfortunately I had no choice. I was very lucky to have survived the boat trip most of the people could not

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Mattia D’Aloi from Italia

Hello my name is Kalid I am 17 years old, I come from a city in the center of Morocco, it is small but bigger than Scicli where I live now. I left because one day I had a fight with what I thought were my brothers because they didn't want to send me to school but they wanted to send me to work then I discovered that my parents were actually my grandparents and they had no intention of sending me to school. I am still in contact with them and we love each other very much but I didn't want to be with my grandparents anymore. I arrived in Italy thanks to the help of my neighbors' son in Morocco who had already been here for three years and he explained to me how to do it on facebook. There were many of us on the ship, I was alone and two Syrian women traveling with a small child took care of me. Now that I am in Italy I can go to school I speak Italian well, I attend a course to become a cultural mediator and I am enrolled in the tourist technical high school in Scicli.

MY STORY,ALI Hello, my name is Ali and i am 15 years old and I live in Irak. I don't have a good financial situation being the kind of refugee child to be protected. The most of the kids with the same situation doesn’t have the education of a normal child, like in my case. My parents aren’t by my side and i am trying to do my best to have a good education!

My dreams is to have a good education to become an architect!

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Barbora Hališková CZ

Hi, my name is Bayan and I’m 11 years old girl. I’m from Syria but now, I’m living in Greece. My life in Syria was very nice. We had so much money, house in Deir Ez-Zor and food to eat. When the war and the bombings started and when ISIS came, the situation become very difficult. We couldn’t show our faces and wear all black. There were cars passing near the house telling people that they had to pray. they took my father, but they let him go quickly. Planes started coming and my siblings started to hide under their bed. Sometimes they took their toy weapons and said that they would stop the planes, but I explained to them that they cannot do that. In order to leave the country, we had to give up all our money and some more. We tried three times to come to Greece. Now, I have been living in Skaramangas camp for seven months with my uncle and his family. My parents are in Germany. I haven’t seen them for more than a one year but we are all safe now. When I grow up, I want to become a surgeon. I want help people, just as my doctors helped me when I needed it.

Hi,my name is John,I am 15 years old,and I am from a shabby village in Africa. I never knew my father,because when I was 5 years old,died. I have another 3 older brothers,who help my mother to work. Part of education we had not, because school is thousands of km away, and can not reach, because there are no buses, we are a village forgotten by the world. Mom is always busy working to have for all of us what to have something to put on the table.My dream is to become an architect, but it would be possible because my mother was not able to give me to school.

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Moșneguțu Alexandra,România

We are Hassan and Youssof and we are fourteen and fifteen years old. We fled Syria with our father Suheil, a karate teacher, with our mother and with our sister and three brothers. We first went to Jordan but were then resettled to Luxembourg. We are now enjoying school while our father teaches karate.

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Arsakeio Tositseio Junior High School in GREECE

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My name is Peter and i was also a victim of immigrination. In 1965 we came from US with my family, i was 4 years old then. We came not by plane but by freighter ship i was little then but i still remember some things. The reason we came here is because my parents sought a better life for us. As i was growing up i had the luck to make amazing friends, religions and backgrounds but life wasn't always so easy I didn't have the chance to study from a young age but as soon as I grown up I had , when my brother and I went to school everybody was laughing because we didn't had nice clothes or backpack. We didn't care we enjoined the fact that we had the opportunity to study so we continued .I graduate from a well known university and i was privileged to take care of cancer patients and later to discover new cancer drugs which now are available to market nowadays.My childhood wasn't fun or easy because i was an immigrant and as long as i remember myself i was wondering if people would see me differently if I was not?

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Arsakeio Tositseio Junior High School in GREECE

Hello, I’m nineteen and my name is Andrea, or better, my Italian name is Andrea; I don’t know how I was called before my arrival in Italy because I was only two months old and my parents died before we could be rescued.

An Italian family adopted me when I was thirteen, they told me about my previous family. I love them, because before I was adopted, I couldn’t attend school and so making friends.

I was quite lucky because I found a family who could send me to school, but some other children who arrived in Italy with me aren’t this lucky: they can’t afford the books and the other thing to go to school.

I think that every refugee should be like me because a quality education is the most important thing if we want to change The future world.

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B. Marco, Italy

Hi, I'm Malik, I'm 18 and I've lived in Italy for 10 years. I fled from Afghanistan at the age of 10, my mother saved my life, otherwise I would have become a soldier.

In Italy I was adopted by a very welcoming family who gave me everything, I love them very much as if they were my real parents. I go to school with my adoptive brother who is the same age as me, I have a very special relationship with him.

After 8 years in Italy, I still haven't managed to meet my mother again, I don't even know if she is alive. Despite this, I consider myself very lucky compared to many other children who live in very bad conditions.

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Michelangelo B. Italy

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I’m Chad, I’m seventeen and I’ve lived in Italy since I was five years old.

I was born in Cameroon but after a few years my family and me, my mother, my father and my brother, who was only 2 years old, emigrated and arrived in Italy due to the poor conditions in which we lived.

At first we had a lot of financial difficulties, I had to help my father work while my mother looked after my brother. Consequently I was unable to go to school and did not receive a quality education.

For some years my parents have found a stable job, my brother and I can dedicate ourselves to learning and I am confident for the future.

I hope all the others children can get a quality education because I think it it’s very important.

Simone G. Italy

Hi my name is Seydou and I am 17. I’ve lived in Italy since I was 4 years old. I left Ghana with my mother but she didn’t arrive in Italy with me. For some years I have been in an orphanage center where some people cared about me. Now I live with a family that adopted me 5 years ago and allows me to have a normal life. I hope that many other children can have the same luck as me because we should all have the same opportunities.

Lorenzo D. Italy

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My name is Khalid and I live in Zgharta, one of the poorest districts of Lebanon, with Amal.

Polititians and policy makers are often in a tight spot, with dissatisfaction from their own citizens about the quality of existing services. Life there can be hard for refugees. Usually they face health, social protection and education problems.

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Hello everyone! My name is Josef. Now I'm 23, I work in the police, I have a wife and a little two-year-old daughter. Маybe now you can envy my life, but it wasn't always so. My older sister and I emigrated from Ritreia to Italy when I was 16. Then our life was very difficult and poor. I had to learn the language and take an exam to enter school and it was not easy. But I coped and now I can be proud of myself, because thanks to the help of many people I was able to live in another country on an equal footing with its citizens.

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I am Nuruddin, I am Somali, but I lived with my family in the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya I came from Kenye and it took me two months to get here. I traveled from Uganda to Sudan and from South Sudan then to Libya. I decided to leave Kenya because if I didn't, I wouldn't have a future. There was no choice for me. My mother wants me to go home, but they don't have a life there, people are dying. I don't want to go back, I'm lucky to be able to live here in Sicily where I can live and study like a normal person

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,, Hi! My name is Sandra, i am 7 years old, i'm from Madang Province . I have blisters sometimes when I walk. When I get home from school I am so tired to do my homework but the next morning I can’t wait to go to back school." Schools in Papua New Guinea are so far from villages that only half of the children attend.

Children in remote communities in Madang Province walk long distances to school.

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ACIOBANITEI ALEXANDRA ROMANIA

I live in the slum situated close to big apartment complexes and a rajakaluve in Munnenakolala in Marthahalli.I have to walk about 2 km to reach school and I have to cross a drain .

Gauging the danger, a few living in the slum have built a temporary bridge using wooden logs so that we and others can cross the drain.

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By Athina from Greece

Hi my name is opi and i am 9 years old I go in the 3th grade of primary school. I do not know my mum, although i was lucky enough to grow up with my aunt that feels like a mum to me. When I grow up I want to become a doctor and help people in my village. The way to my school is really hard and i have to walk 1.5 km.

But I never stop no matter how tired I am, I also have to cross 3 rickety bamboo bridges and most of the time I am scared.

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Hi, I’m Ahmad and to go to school every day I have to cross this broken bridge above this furious river every day

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Hi, I am Abdul and to go to school everyday I have to ride this fully-loaded pick-up truck

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Hi, I’m Erwin and I ride a horse more than one hour with my friends, Henock, Arnolance and Alvin, to go to school. The horse is the only available transportation in my village East Sumba, in Indonesia.

Vincenzo E. from Italy

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Nigeria is one of the countries with a total decline in children due to covid, many parents for fear of this do not send children to school. Improvements have been proposed in terms of learning and remediation of problems due to learning difficulties given by the pandemic which involves the loss of the future of many children due to these situations.

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Hi, my name is Mose Niuni and I live in the mountains in a small village in China. I go to school climbing. It's very risky and it happens that someone dies. Now we have an iron ladder so it’s safer. It’s a long trip and when it’s rainy, it can be dangerous.

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Hi, my name is Meiqian from small village Guangxi. I am 9 years old, I go in the 3th grade of primary school. My parents are migrant workers so i am being taken care of by my grandfather. I walk to school 1,5h over mountains.

Sometimes we run with friends and hope to arrive at school on time. And sometimes when the road is slippery, we hold hands and walk together.

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Hi! My name is Tommy. I live in Lebak, Indonesia, and am a 5th grade student. My problem is that the road to school is very long, because my house is far from the town (about 4 miles). I am often thirsty and I don't have enough water to carry in my backpack. When I get home, I am very tired and it is very difficult for me to do my homework.

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Avirvarei Razvan-Stefan From Romania

Hi, I'm Jelani, my day starts very early, at dawn. no breakfast: I only eat once a day, in the evening. School is very far away but I am happy and I feel lucky to have the opportunity to study, many of my friends do not study because they have to help the family. in the afternoon I do chores in exchange for some food or look for water to drink. In the evening I have dinner. before collapsing in exhaustion

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Giuseppe Ricciardo from Italy

Hi my name is Elena and i want to share with everybody how life of a person who lives far away from the school is like in Romania.

One of the first issues is that i don’t have time to do nearly anything in the morning except getting ready for school without any breakfast.I can’t just wake up earlier because i have a lot of homework and studying to do so i go to sleep really late.

It’s not really easy for me but i do it for my education and a better future.I know it’s all worth it in the end!

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I'm Katul, I am 11 years old. I lost my family in a conflict that plagued in Angola. I speak portuguese. Thanks to a beautiful teacher, Azlah Ntucol, I'm now in first grade at a primary school and i want to learn. I live with family that accepted me. And I'm a children supported by an association of charity for children, with $7,8 million of funds grant to improve access and quality of education for all Angolese children.

Paolo T. from Italy

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Hello,my name is Abdul I am 10 years old and due to various conflicts in my country all the schools have been destroyed and therefore I cannot learn to speak as well as I would like and learn the most important thing for me, education.I’m supported by

a government primary education project and I’m funded with a $ 100 million grant to improve the access and quality of education.

Andrea Lobianco From italy

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It is more than hard to live in a conflict-affected area and specifically to have lack of quality education. More than 25 million children between 6 and 15 years old, or 22 per cent of children in that age group, are missing out on school in conflict zones across 22 countries. I am a 16-year-old girl who was abducted by Boko Haram outside her school in Nigeria at the age of 13 and was drugged, exploited and abused for three years before fleeing to Chad. Even more I met children who are able to get an education for the first time, and community members who, like her once, are risking it all to get children into school.

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ILIANA FROM GREECE (B ARSAKEIO TOSITSEIO JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL-GREECE)

“Conflict can take away your friends, your family, your livelihood, your home. It can try to strip you of your dignity, identity, pride and hope. But it can never take away your knowledge” .

I am Sima, it is really hard to live in Syria today, and i am one of the lucky ones. I am receiving an education that 2 million Syrian children are not. Many schools look nothing like mine, many do not have whiteboards, playgrounds and even desks.Since the conflict began, so many schools have been damaged, destroyed, militarized or are currently used as shelters by IDPs

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Angeliki from Greece B ARSAKEIO TOSITSEIO JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL -GREECE)

Ahmed Burale I was only 8-years-old when my home was stolen from me. Memories of 1991 still bring back buried feelings of fear and panic. This is the year the civil war took its toll.

Before the war, we lived happily in Somalia. My whole family lived in the Kismayu village.Before all the hardship in Somalia started, my mother used to tell my siblings and me, “to be without knowledge is to be without light in a dark room”. She would tell us this every day as we ate breakfast before school.

After we became refugees, my mother encouraged me to continue into higher education so I can help our community and humanity as a whole. There is a lot of hate in the world but I know that knowledge can be the light that overcomes all evil.

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My name is Zilan, I am 15 years old and I live in Syria.

Since this endless conflict began, so many schools have been damaged that we have become one of the lucky few who still receive an education. Every morning I go on the road thinking that there are chances that I will not return home, but when I put my books in my backpack I remember how much education means, and that motivates me.

Balta Erika-Denisa National College “Grigore Ghica” Dorohoi

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I am 12, and my brother, Hussein, 10, have smudges of dirt on our faces and arms from our work digging through rubbish in Haifa Street in central Baghdad to find aluminium cans and other metal scraps which we sell for around 600 dinars, or 50 cents, per kilo. We had to leave school to help make money for our family, we wanted to continue with school, but our family needed us. We sell cigarettes, fruit, sweets and tissues on the side of the street and at intersections in Baghdad and other large cities around the country. We also often shine shoes and beg for money.

These encounters make us sad. We aren't going to school and are forced to work. We have less money now to survive. our mother can never buy meat, so we have to help her, Ioanna Papageorgiou

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Hassan al-Joubouri

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Hi, call me Eunice, I am 15 years old and I am in the eighth grade. To go to school it takes me an hour every morning. In my old school the roof was thatched and there were no toilets. Now in my new school there are clean bathrooms, but when I have my period I don't have sanitary pads and I feel embarrassed to go to school because some guys make fun of me and I go to take refuge next to the other girls.

Anna Laura S from Italy

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My name is Zakaria, I’m 7 years old, every morning I have to wake up at 5.00 a.m to go to the nearest source of water, which is 7 km far from my village.

There we don’t have water because a group of terrorists destroyed our well.

I, like other children, can’t go to school, because we don’t have one, lots of us have been forced to fight by Al Sahama, the head of a terrorist cell.

We have to shoot to other men e children and sometimes we get shoot. My biggest dream is to become a doctor, but I don’t know if I’m going to survive to see my dreams become reality.

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Fortunato Pata Italy

Hi, my name is Ahmed and I'm 8 years old. My parents died during the bombing of the city. Unfortunately, I can't even find my refuge at school, because now most schools serve as a home for the homeless. All that remains of our family is my uncle, who is fighting on the side of the Syrian rebels in the war, and I have decided to follow him in his steps.

From a happy boy supported by a loving family, I am here in the most dangerous streets of Allepa. The fighting has falling down, but there are still many of dead people. The biggest problem for me is shooting. The weapon is too heavy for me, so I always lean it on something when we're in the middle of the battlefield. I used to enjoy cycling, now I enjoy playing a soldier.

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Tomáš J. from Czech Republic

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I’m 12 years old but I look smaller and I’m sad and determinate. I lost my family in a recent conflict and now I live in Goma with an host family. Here I learned English in fact I speak this language and not French like my mates. Now , thanks to the teacher Matthieu Nyota Ruhinoura, I’m in the second grate of primary school and I really want to learn. I’m supported by a government primary education project and I’m funded with a $ 100 million grant to improve the access and quality of education.

Elena B.

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The story of Shogofa

Hi, my name is Shogofa and I’m 9 years old. I’m from Afghanistan and I was critically wounded when Afghanistan was hit by a rocket. I suffered from several injuries and my brothers were killed by shrapnel. I live now in camp at Mazar with my remaining family. Before the attack i used to go to school and i enjoyed playing outside with my friends. If the fighting in my home town stops, I hope we will move back and I can play with my brothers and sisters on the streets again. If there’s peace, I want to go back to school and and study, so I can become a doctor and help sick people.

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Dominika Č. from Czech Republic

Hello, I am 12 years old and together with my brother we are forced to live in very bad conditions, working from an early age because of the war. We have always enjoyed studying and went to school but my family's conditions have no longer allowed it. We, like many children, have to help the family with work to survive, my brother and I sell remains of what we find on the streets and among the garbage: metals, handkerchiefs, containers ... with the hope of earning what little is enough to to eat. We are very sad, we cannot live like other children, we cannot play and study ...

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The story of Malik Hi, I'm Malik and I'm 12 years old. I’m from Afghanistan. In my country, adults have decided to "play" at being soldiers and it is we children who suffer the consequences. I am denied the fundamental right to learn, to go to school and to play. Not only can I not study, but they have decided to "train" me to become a child soldier.But not only me, also my sisters suffer this condition and my parents too. I hope in a better situation for me and my family,so we can study and help the adults understand that SLIDESMANIA.COM

we need an education and in this way they don’t help.

Noemi lagrotteria from Italy

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My name is Ajene, I’m 15 years-old and I’m from Lybia, a country in the north of Africa. When I was 5 years-old the civil war against the terrorists begun and after it ended many others succeded, and because of this I’ve never really had the opportunity of going to school.

Living there is not easy. Since I’m a kid I dream of becoming a doctor to help my people, but the war destroyed my future.

I wished war didn’t exist , it involves innocent and destroys their lives. I hope that I’ll have the opportunity to run away from there and achieve my goal so I can do my part against that conflict in order to make Lybia a better place for the next generations.

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I’m Eunice, I’m 15 years old and I’m from South Sudan.

My dream is to become a teacher but I come from a really poor country.It takes an hour for me to walk to school every morning.On my way to school, I often get teased by boys and I try to join other girls to feel safe.My school doesn’t have any toilets and it has a thatched roof that leaks when it rains.

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Myrto from Greece

I was born and raised in south-western Uganda.When i was 11 years old, I was transferred to a poor rural school with poor conditions but i was also repeatedly suspended, not for causing trouble, but for failure to pay school fees. I negotiated with the headmaster to let me stay and try to catch up on fees when my grandmother could save enough, but the cost of school was a constant source of insecurity and worry.

Because i was recognized as a smart and resourceful student, i could sometimes get help with school fees from distant relatives. One time i walked 21 miles to my aunt’s home to see if she could assist. She was not home, so i started the long trek back home. Fortunately, a gentleman in a truck picked me up.The man asked me about my schooling and how i was paying for it. Before the ride was over, the man, who turned out to be a minister, had agreed to pay my school fees, and ultimately connected me with a woman from Portugal who sponsored my education until i was admitted to an Academy in Kampala, a unique boarding school where all fees were covered by sponsorship.

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Maria from Greece

I’m a normal boy, like the others, but I would like to go to school, but in my country it is not free, you have to be rich to go to school. I’m not so rich, my parents works to buy food for me and all the family, but these money are not enough to pay my education. I think it’s not correct, all people in the world must have the right to education. The institutions of the richer states should intervene, I appeal to all of them.

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Antonio from Italy

Why can’t I go to school?

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I’m a boy who live in Africa, but that is not all. I was born in Kenya and I carry stones every day since I was five and now I’m 11, I don’t want do this, this is not my dream! In my country there aren’t many schools and I can’t go there because I’m poor. Books and teachers “cost” a lot and I spend my money not to die. Often other children spend their money on drugs and planes fuel to forget their situations, but I’m not like that. I ask for help, I want to go to school because it’s my right.

Giovanni from Italy

My name is Yara. I am 15 years old and I come from South Sudan. I don't have a very good life largely because of the poverty that can be seen in my hometown. I can't say that I am happy to be part of this world where we do not have extremely many conditions. As I said, poverty is present everywhere, especially in schools where we cannot benefit from many things. I want to continue to fulfill my dream despite the conditions of poverty, that of becoming a doctor.

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Alisia from Romania

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Hi! I'm Chistine, I'm 11 years old and I'm from South Sudan. I'm excited because schools are opening. The opening of the schools brought back my living hope. We studied under trees and we don't even have benches. In the future, I want to make Sudan a better and quieter place.

This is a bit difficult to achieve due to poverty but I will do my best to accomplish it

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Petronela from Romania

Im Nyapith Roaw from South Sudan.

Im 14 years old. I want to be doctor in future, becose they are many people who need help.But I am concerned that I could end up becoming married at a young age.If you are married here, then your daily life is only walking far to find a water.

Very interesting facts!

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Marek from Czech Republic

I am William Kamkwamba, I am 14, my hometown Malawi suffered a severe disaster . My family could no longer pay my school fees, and I was forced to drop out of high school. While staying home, I remained curious and inventive and worked with the village librarian to stay engaged with my studies, especially science. Working from just one photo in a U.S. junior high school textbook book called “Using Energy,” I reasoned out how to build an electricity-producing windmill from spare parts and scrap, despite having no instructions SLIDESMANIA.COM

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I’m Keita, I’m 13 years old and I’m from Congo. I’ve worked in a mine since I was 8. In the mine I search a black material, the coltan: from what I heard, it’s a very important material! In the region where I live, Kivu, there are few schools and many are destroyed by soldiers during battles for the possession of mines. Besides I can’t go there because I haven’t money for buying books (I earn $2 a day!). My dream is to become a teacher to give others what I probably will never have, my education. I ask for help, I want to go to school like other children!

Giacinto forn Italy

Margaret I'm Margaret, I'm just 10 years old and I live fifteen kilometers from Kenya's second largest city, Mombasa. Here, in a place that seems to be completely out of the world, there is a giant landfill.

Adults and children, men and women spend the whole day looking for plastic, metals and everything that can be resold on the black market. And if many others have the "fortune" to live far from the landfill, I instead live there with my parents and my brothers.

Both of my parents don't have regular jobs and that's why I try to help them out. Early in the morning I go to the landfill to earn some money (about 50 shillings). At 11:00, when I can, I go to class, but it rarely happens, since I have to work. Me and my brothers have no hope for the future because we do not attend school regularly, we are forced to help adults.

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When I'm in class I try to learn as much as possible. Being in school makes me feel safe, it is a place where I feel protected, out of the degradation of when I am in the landfill where I feel like a prisoner. There I am afraid of getting sick and the air I breathe is terrible.

I would like to study to have a more dignified life, to be able to escape from here and become a teacher, but only education can tear me away from this condition and for now it is not possible.

Sara F. Italy

Ca Depent I'm Ca Depend.My day starts early, when the sun has just risen. No breakfast: I only eat once a day, in the evening. I lost my parents when I was little. Now I live with my elderly grandparents who look after me, my brothers and my little sisters. They can't feed everyone.

I leave the house, which is a forty minute walk from school. but I'm happy about it: I feel lucky to have the opportunity to study. Of course, my school is not like the Western ones, but I do my best.

Then, in the afternoon, I go home. I should do my homework, but I can't because I have to look for firewood or drinking water. I help my grandparents by going around the dusty streets of the village to do small jobs in exchange for some food.

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Bartolomeo Condò from Italy

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Hello my name is Miguel. I live in Rio de Janeiro’s most violent neighborhood.

I always dreamed to become a good doctor one day, but education here is something that barely exist.

Not everyone can afford to attend even a normal course and this makes me feel really upset.

I used to go to school but I couldn’t really focus since I have to work everyday for my family. I also got a little brother that is good at football but the lack of sport infrastructures won’t let him reach his goal.

I hope the situation here will improve somehow in the near future.

Gabriele from Italy.

I am Tegera Muchiru, I am 12 years old and i want to be a teacher. I live in Goma in Democratic Republic of the Congo. I lost my family in the conflict in the kivus. Thanks to my teacher Matthieu Nyot Ruhinour, I am now in second grade and I am very happy to be able to be educated

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Matěj from Czech Republic

I am Nyaluak Wie.I am 15 years old. I am from South Sudan.If my family finds any money or makes the painful decision to sell a goat or a cow to get money, then we have to walk to the nearest town where there is a market in order to use the money to buy maize flour or sorghum or cooking oil. I live in village Kiech Kuon.

Instead we walk three days each way to Mathiang. We sleep the way, just lying down underneath a tree trying to avoid the rain if it comes.

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PROKOP from Czech Republic

Subarna I am Subarna I am 13 years old and I am from bangladesh.

My biggest dream is to become a vet, the problem is that the school closest to my village is about 70km away.

My days consist of cleaning our little house and going to get water with the other women and other girls.

Here another problem is the little importance that is attributed to us women, only the richest and most fortunate have access to adequate education.

I hope someone will come one day with the intention of opening a school.

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Mattia S. ITALY

Ekundayo

Hi, I'm Ekundayo and I'm fifteen. My dream is to become an aerospace engineer. I am the eldest son and every day I have to go to work to bring home a piece of bread. I would like to go to school to achieve my goal, but the closest is 50km from the mountains surrounding my village. In addition, the school is paid and my parents cannot afford the annual tuition because they have six other children besides me to feed.

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Andrea M. form ITALY

Chuchu Hi, I’m Chuchu, a 15-year-old girl, I’m from Ethiopia, and in my school there are very few desks and chairs to sit on.

Many children, have to take lessons sitting on the ground. And there is no water in the school. One day I was seriously ill and I had to leave school, now I spend my days helping my mother in housework, I feed the cows, I sell milk at the market and I clean the house. I want to go back to school, but my parents don’t have the money to buy my books and pens.

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Valerio S. form ITALY

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Hello, my name is Maya and I' m a victim of bullying because I am a person with disabilities. But harder than the bullying I received from a large number of people, the bad things they tell me, the fact that they underestimate me affected me even more.

Because I know why I'm capable and I know that even if people think that all people with disabilities can't do everything they can, I'm going to show them that it's not like that. And I want to be able to encourage and help those like me because only we know what we are going through but we still have a smile on our face because we are all the same.

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Olteanu Irina Dorohoi, ROU

Hi, my name's Tanya. I'm 13. Maybe you've guessed that I'm deaf. Today I'm going to show you about my life. C'mon!

I've been deaf since I was born. There are different levels of hearing loss, but I can't hear anything at all.

So, for the next part of the story, when I take you to visit my school, I thought it would be good if you experienced life like I do, with no sound at all. At school I like to hang out with my friends at lunch time.

We play games, chat and joke around.

Some of my friends are also deaf.

So, we communicate using sign language.

For my friends that don't know sign language, I use actions or write stuff down, like on the computer here.At the end of lunch, I can't hear the school bell ring.

So, instead, I just set a vibrating alarm on my watch!

One of the classes I really like at school is music.

I get to learn things with my friend Prabin.We have an interpreter in class that can tell us what the teacher is saying and help us to ask questions.

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Usher Sanca is a 7-year-old child.He is among an estimated 93 million children worldwide living with a disability.

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Hello, my name is Joyce and I am 7 years old. I’m from Uganda. I have a hearing loss, so I must left my school for 1 semester. My teachers were unable to accommodate me so I couldn’t lip-read. My classmates mocked and ignored me. I lost interest for school and learning. I stopped going to school. My siblings went to school, but my parents gave up on my education. Then I got a hearing aid. My family gained support and believed in me. In my school they teach my teachers how to work with my hearing aid. Next year I can go to my school and I have motivation to study.

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Nela K. CZ

Bigz Hello everyone! My name is Bigz and i was raised in south-westem Uganda. I was facing many hardships from a pretty young age, but was blessed by several generous people who intervened at critical points in my life When I was 11 years old, my father passed away and he was taken under the care of my grandmother. I was transferred to a poor rural school when I not only had to fight for the few desks, but was also repeatedly suspended, not for causing trouble, but for failure to pay the school fees. I negotiated with the headmaster to let me stay and try to catch up on fees when my grandmother could save enough, but the cost of school was a constant source of insecurity and worry.

Because I was recognized as smart and resourceful student, I could sometimes get help with the school fees from distant relatives. One time I walked 21 miles to my aunt’s home to see if she could assist. She was not home, so i started the long trek back home, deciding to try and hitch a ride. Firunately, a gentleman in a nice truck picked me up. The man asked me about my schooling and how i was paying for it. Before the ride was over, the man, qho turned out to be a minister, had agreed to pay my school fees, and ultimately connected me with a woman from Portugal who sposored my education until i was admitted to Cornerstone Leadership Academy in Kampala, a unique boarding school where all fees were covered by sponsorship. With the supporting of Cornerstone, I went on to the University of Makerere, the top university in East Africa, and eventually began supporting and mentoring other children just like me.

Of course, my story is inspiring. But sadly, my story is not the story of over 30 million children in Sub-Saharan Africa who are currently not in school. These children live in countries and in families that simply do not have resources to educate them. At first i was scared to share my story with other people but I now feel free and i think that children should talk freely about their own stories and not being ashamed. EducateMe wants to connect these children and families with education resources.

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Hi, my name is Aditi Verma, I suffer from Down syndrome and I run a restaurant. My uncle discovered my conditions when I was two and a half years old he operated on me in an open heart surgery. Despite my disabilities my parents love me.

At 20, after school I no longer wanted to study, I felt there was nothing more to learn that I didn't already know. So my parents enrolled me in a special institute that I attended for 10 years.

My parents noticed my lack of interest and tried to get me into the family business but it was boring and I didn't care. The situation changed when I observed a tea vendor and I got the idea of bringing tea to my dad's colleagues. My happiness in the kitchen was not measurable, I looked at videos of cakes and recipes on youtube for years and followed them step by step, if the youtuber said 100g of sugars, I put them precise. My parents decided, seeing me so happy, to open a restaurant on the floor above the shopping center where they worked. I have two friends who help me cook and take orders, but I manage everything: orders, cooks, deliveries and sells all kinds of snack or drinks..

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“ I want to get people like me out of their homes, employ people like me, train them and make them independent”

Alessia Sgrò

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Hi, my name is Swapnil Tewari and I was diagnosed with dyslexia when I was only seven years old. Mine was very unpleasant as my desire as a child was to do outdoor sports and focus on studies, but obviously this was not made possible for me due to my illness. However, I tried to move on, and to accept myself despite my disability and trying to accept my fate, but at the age of twelve I suffered the death of a very dear person, who is my father. It was unbearable to think of losing him so soon, so I splurged and tried to take an overdose of medication to end my life as the “I think everyone pain had peaked. But luckily I decided to change my mind and give myself another is born a wonder, chance. Just as things were getting back into place, I was diagnosed with whether they love gynecomastia, another disease linked to hormonal imbalance. It was very difficult him or hate him is for me to have to face even this moment of my life, but despite everything I tried up to them. And I not to be discouraged by believing that all people are born a wonder and always try decided to love to look at the bright side of things. This is why I strive every day to bring positive him " change in the community and to remove people from poverty. When I returned to Delhi from Saptura, particularly interested in the defense of the weakest or those who cannot be, I founded a movement, the 'Pink Whistle Project' aimed at the defense of women and I invented the Shakti whistle which was a bracelet but in case of danger of turning into a knife. I also worked hard to help people get out of my depression, the same one that overwhelmed me in my teens, by conducting positive thinking sessions. I am currently working with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for AIDS Prevention. In my life I have always wanted to become a Veronica M. from Vibo person that others would want to help others with and I am happy to do so.

DHEERAJ SAINI Hi! My name is Dheeraj Saini and I will tell you my story.

Yes, I was born with an intellectual disability along with speech and hearing disorders, but this is a little part of me. It was certainly not easy to believe in me, also because of my financial problems; but working hard I managed to buy a bicycle and since then I have never parted with it.

So after long years of training I won a bronze medal in a cycling competition at the Special Olympics. I reached my goal, but I'm only 22 so this was just the beginning, I know I can do better.

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your dreams, just a lot of determination.

Ludovica B. from Italy

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Hi, my name is Sophia, I am 7 years old and I have a psychosocial disability . I am

one one of many children with disabilities who have developed a reading habit during the COVID-19 pandemic, as a result receiving more support from my parents, and from youth volunteers.

“I set a goal with my mother to read a book per month. Now, I read every day,” she says. ● “All this situation helped me Identify my child’s strength.

Before, I thought I did not Have time for my child with A disability! Now I always Encourage my child to read And follow radio lessons” Adds her father SLIDESMANIA.COM

Sophia* and her parents read a selection of storybooks together TASOULAS SPYROS, GREECE

I am Beatrice Vio but everyone call me “Bebe”. When I was a child I’ve gone to the intensive cure unit, aka ICU, due to a meningit that affected me. That didn’t stop me, I’ve come back and in 2010 started practicing in the sport I love most: fencing.

At the paralympics in 2015 and in 2016 i’ve won the golden medal and the european titol.

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Basmah Hi,

- My name is Basmah and I’am a girl. I’am 9 years old. I have a Down Syndrome.

- I put my own backpack everyday as i get in the car to acompanny my siblings to school but despite her enthusiasm, no school has accepted her.

- In the cases Human Rights Watch investigated , most famillies said children with disabilities were excluded from public schools due to disciminatory admission policies.

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I’m Reggie, I’m 8 years old and I can't hear a thing. I’m a normal boy, but I was born deaf. Unfortunately, I’ve always seemed to end up being treated differently from everyone else. Children worried that they would hurt me, that maybe I wouldn't hear the ball being hit in my direction, adults have always acted like I am incapable of understanding them.

I truly don't like this very much. But Michael, whose father is the town's Mayor, he managed to convince him that this year, in honour of me, they should dedicate one day of the festival to deaf people. During that whole day everyone in town would have to wear earplugs.

The day became known as The Day of Silence, and when it arrived everyone stuck plugs in their ears, in a spirit of great fun.

As the hours passed, people became more and more aware of how difficult life was when you couldn't hear anything.

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On that day I could be treated just like any other little boy; this meant that people paid more attention to what I was saying, and they realised that I had always been like that, and that in normal life all I needed was a little more time than others to communicate. That was the only difference.

So the Day of Silence was the day my true nature became known, and it was the day everyone realised you have to give people a chance to show how valuable they are.

Reggie

Hi my name is Oney Tapia, and I am a Paralympic Athlete in discus throw and shot put events. I’m 45 years old and you may wondering why am i a Paralympic Athlete… well when i was playing rugby i had to do a second hob, which was to be a gardner, in a sunny afternoon in 2011 i was hitted by a big branch at the head and lost my sight.

But although this i have been able to compete in other sports, and i have also managed to won many medals such as two gold medals in the European Championship in 2018 and two bronze medals at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.

After all disability has made me discover new sports where i never thought i would be so competitive.

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Francesco V. From Italy

Hi, my name is Emmanuel; I was born in Ghana, West Africa, with one deformed leg, I was dismissed by most people, but not my mother, who taught me to reach for my dreams. As a boy, I hopped to school more than two miles each way, I learned to play football, left home at age thirteen to provide for my family, and, eventually, became a cyclist. I rode an astonishing four hundred miles across Ghana in 2001, spreading my powerful message: disability is not inability. Today, I continue to work on behalf of the disabled.

Francesco P. From italy

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Hi, I'm Alessandro Zanardi, aka Alex, born in 1966 I'm someone who has seen death in the face more than once. After a successful career in racing, a racing accident changed my life on September 15, 2001, when I was the victim of a terrible rear-end collision in which I lost both legs. And to which Alex reacts like that.Since then, after a difficult rehabilitation, I started a second life and my strong social commitment to give more opportunities to disabled people, fighting for unlimited mobility accessible to all, a commitment that was crowned in 2018 with the launch of the Objective 3 project Later I began to participate in numerous events for disabled athletes, embarked on a new sports career in para-cycling, racing in handbike.

Samuele.C From Italy

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Hi, I’m Ankush Saha and I’m a 24 years old man.

I suffer by an intellectual disability and because of it I’m not able to spend my life such as other people of my age.

In spite of it, I have been able to win a silver golf medal for India, my country , in 2019,during Special Olimpic World Summer Games which took place in Abu Dhabi.

I have been practised golf since I was 13 years old ,when my father used to take me along to the golf course,and I achieved important results winning a lot too.

To sum up,Golf helps me to stay positive and get better, as well as being able to represent my country.

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Hi,I’m Pranav Bakshi and I’m a 19 years old man

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I am the first male model with autism, I have always dreamed of being a model like the Spanish model Jon Kortajarenna, in fact after many efforts I managed to get a breakthrough.I managed to participate in many famous brands and despite my situation I never stopped and I always fought for making my dreams come true.

Giuseppe Tedesco, Italy

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