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Relevant background information
In parallel with neighbouring Kosovo (Yugoslavia) UNICEF has helped to fund the Mines Advisory Group (MAG) from 1999. Children aged 10-14 years are targeted and given mines/UXO (unexploded ordnance) training which they pass on to others. Child-to-Child materials are held by UNICEF but a three-step rather than a six-step approach is advocated.
Note 1
UNICEF reports:
“… two school manuals are being prepared by the Institute of Pedagogical Studies. One is for the teachers and one is for the students of primary education. The goal is to protect the children from different risks (mines/UXO, fireworks and provide them with first aid skills as well. The books are going to be used mostly in the North-Eastern mined areas of the country”
Date: 2005
Source: Information supplied by Aurora Bushati, Education Project Officer
Unicef website
Contact: Aurora Bushati, Education Project Officer, abushati@unicef.org
Note 2
UNICEF reports:
“… we are supporting an innovative approach in Education with focus on the marginalised children in the classroom. These are children with learning difficulties to whom the teachers do not pay proper attention for a variety of reasons. To ensure that they improve their learning achievements among other interventions, peer-to-peer learning is practised. Student Governments are playing a crucial role here. As a result, reading speed has improved. Assisted children feel comfortable and the ones who assist them have learnt a lot from the social behaviour point of view. They feel more tolerant and friendly after such experience. This children’s experience is going to be collected in a booklet to share/expand with other schools and education directorates. So far the approach is practised in five out of 13 prefectures in the country.”
N.B: Both the above activities run parallel to approaches recommended by the Child-to-Child group but do not directly use its materials
Date: 2005
Source: Information supplied directly by Aurora Bushati, Education Project Officer
Unicef website
Contact: abushati@unicef.org
Note 3
PLAN International (PLAN Albania) reports:
Educating the Next Generation
“Children play an important part in health education projects. They are sources of information both to peers and their parents.”
Children’s Health Clubs
PLAN works with students to organise child health clubs. Groups usually consist of 30 children between ages 11 and 14. In 2001 close to 200 children took part in this project discussing topics such as personal hygiene, HIV/AIDS, nutrition and infectious diseases.”
N.B. Plan activities commonly use Child-to-Child materials as resources.
Date: 2005
Source: Report extracted from PLAN website
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