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Due to the global pandemic, there are currently more than nine million students in Iraq without physical access to education – like in many places, a nationwide curfew has been imposed to ensure the safety of its population. The Ministry of Education (MoE) in Iraq has already initiated to ensure the continuity of learning of students by providing the e-platform “Newton” in addition to the Education Satellite TV channel.

UNESCO Iraq Office, and EAA’s programme, Educate A Child (EAC), have reprogrammed activities to support the MoE in the development of 376 Primary Education and Alternative Learning Programme (ALP) Distance Education TV programmes. This initiative will contribute greatly towards addressing the challenges to educational access associated with this crisis and is also expected to benefit Out of School Children (OOSC) and other vulnerable children in Iraq. Since 2018, MoE and UNESCO have been closely working together to reach and enroll 150,000 OOSC under the EAC project.

Before the Pandemic, 12-year-old Safwan’s said “Joining the ALP school has given me new hope. It changed my life. It makes me dream of being an engineer to build schools and buildings that help my damaged city.”