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 Besides the creative workshops, War Child is increasing the education component in it’s programmes.
This is contributing a lot to the aim of War Child: making children in warzones more able to withstand the pressures of war around them.
More than ten years ago War Child Holland started with creative workshops for children with problematic experiences of war. By drawing, music or drama they learnt to express their emotions. During the last ten years this methodology had been further developed and optimised, and it being used by both War Child and its partners. Already from the start the War Child programmes have always been connected as much as possible to existing education systems (if functional).
Education offers children a trusted and safe learning environment, a structure in everyday life, help and attention from teachers, contacts with classmates and hope for the future.. Also the children themselves and the community around them think education is very important.
 In the last years the educational elements in the War Child programmes have steadily increased. Education offers an important contribution to War Child’s aim: to make children in warzones more able to withstand the pressures of war around them.
It concerns many forms of education: training of teachers in the field of pedagogic and didactical skills, training of youth in vocational skills, in ‘life skills’ (like leadership, peacful problem solving and human rights) in ‘survival skills’ (like awareness about landmines, HIV/aids and drugs) and literacy.
 Armed conflict creating crisis in education for 43 million children
More than 43 million children living in countries wracked by war and armed conflict are being left without the chance to go to school, according to a new report “Rewrite The Future: Educating Children in War Zones”, published by Save the Children.
 Read more & download the Save The Children Report
Some Facts and Figures
- Nearly one billion people are unable to read a book or sign their name
- 98% of illiterate people live in developing countries. Two-thirds of those are women.
- 115 million children worldwide aged 4-12 don’t have access to primary education.
- In 19 of 44 African countries more than half of all children will not complete primary education
- In the world's least developed countries, only 14 percent of secondary school enrolment is female.
- A majority of adults who have completed less than five or six years of primary schooling remain functionally illiterate for the rest of their lives.
Why Education?
- Education is everybody’s human right.
- Education is central to development, it empowers people and strengthens families, communities, and nations.
- Education is one of the most powerful instruments known for reducing poverty and inequality, laying the basis for sustained economic growth, the construction of democratic societies and the building of dynamic, globally competitive economies.
- Without an education people cannot work productively; care for and protect their health; sustain and protect themselves and their families; nor live culturally enriched lives.
- Education stimulates interaction in society in a spirit of understanding, peace, tolerance and gender equality among all peoples and groups.
- On a society-wide scale, education can further the cause of tolerance and democracy; peace and social progress and gender- and religious equality among all peoples and groups.
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