Wednesday 24 December 2014

How to make schools safer?

Do we have solution for safer schools? Yes Development Innovation Foundation (DIF) not just brings concept for innovative schools , but safer schools also!

The violence in Pakistan is the latest example of what is becoming a horrific pattern: armed men using schoolchildren as pawns in their conflicts, turning access to education into a weapon of war. On December 17, just one day after the Peshawar massacre, yet another 100 children were kidnapped in Nigeria – allegedly by gunmen from Boko Haram, a terrorist group whose very name means “Western education is forbidden.” The latest assault took place only 30 miles from the village of Chibok, where the Islamist militants shocked the world by abducting more than 200 Nigerian girls in April. Schools – which should be safe havens – have instead become targets for terrorist groups hoping that their horrific massacres will be reported around the world. In the past five years, there have been more than 10,000 attacks on schools and schoolchildren. On the same day that Islamist militants were shooting schoolboys in Pakistan, terrorists murdered 15 Yemeni children on a school bus. In Afghanistan, Colombia, Pakistan, Somalia, Sudan, and Syria, at least 1,000 schools and colleges have been bombed or raided. In the aftermath of the attacks, the schools are usually closed, with the students left to roam the streets. ( reference: World Economic Forum)
For many survivors, the chance of an education is lost forever. Evidence shows that if a child is out of school for a year or more, there is a 50% chance that he or she will never return.
Do we have solution for safer schools? Yes Development Innovation Foundation (DIF) not just brings concept for innovative schools , but safer schools also!
How? schools without boundaries and happiness and schools not for mere studying, but learning's and the most important not just involve student, parents and teachers, but society too as the part of learning!
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