ING and UNICEF announced today the renewal of a decade-long
partnership that to date has provided access to better quality
education for more than 1 million of the world's hardest-to-reach
children.
During the past 10 years, ING has inspired its employees and
customers worldwide to raise funds for UNICEF, helping to improve
children's access to education in remote communities in Brazil,
Ethiopia, India, Nepal and Zambia.
"ING shares UNICEF's deep commitment to improving the lives and
well-being of children and young people around the world," said
Koos Timmermans, Vice-Chairman ING Bank. "We are united by a
conviction that education is a fundamental building block for the
development of children and their societies. We are proud that with
the support from our customers and employees, the ING-UNICEF
partnership has positively affected the lives of 1 million
disadvantaged children."
The partnership has trained 17,000 teachers and has been
instrumental in the development of new ways to reach marginalised
children. In 2006, ING was one of the first investors to support
Alternative Basic Education Centres, providing much needed
educational opportunities for pastoralist children in Ethiopia. The
strategy has now been fully integrated into the country's education
system. In Nepal, ING was also the first investor to support the
Adolescent Development and Participation programme in 2013, helping
to equip young people with social and financial skills.
The second phase of the partnership will shift its focus to
adolescents. While the world has made remarkable progress for
millions of children over the past decades - reducing child
mortality, increasing the number of children enrolled in primary
school, and expanding access to health care services - far too many
of the 1.2 billion adolescents worldwide have been left behind.
"UNICEF is grateful to ING - and especially to its employees and
customers - for their commitment to improving children's lives and
futures," said UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake. "We are
excited that our renewed partnership with ING will focus on
reaching adolescents and helping them develop the knowledge and
skills they need to build brighter futures for themselves, their
families, and the societies in which they live."
For the next three years, the renewed partnership aims to reach
335,000 adolescents in six countries - Indonesia, Kosovo,
Montenegro, Nepal, the Philippines and Zambia -enabling them to
develop into socially and financially empowered adults and full
members of society.
NOTE FOR EDITORS
Results of the UNICEF-ING partnership
In India, 37,622 girls, for whom school was either too far away
or a road too dangerous to travel, have received free transport so
that they can attend school. The partnership has supported 720
education centres for former Indian child labourers, and 3,000
primary schools have received training materials and teacher
trainings.
By constructing new school buildings in remote, rural areas in
Zambia almost 10,000 children, who had previously never had the
opportunity to attend school, have been enrolled.
In Ethiopia, 458 Alternative Basic Education Centres for
pastoralist children have been built, benefiting over 50,000
children. And over 3,400 facilitators (teachers from the community)
have been trained to apply a 'childfriendly' teaching method.
Behind these figures are the individual stories of teachers and
children like Mohamed, a young Ethiopian man who herded goats until
he was 11 years old and was given the opportunity to be one of the
first children to enrol in an ING-supported Alternative Basic
Education Centre. "The school building was made of sticks and we
shared one book between five students and were sitting on rocks,"
said Mohamed, who is now 19 years old, remembering his first
experiences at school."So much has changed since then! Right now,
the children in my community have their classes in a real school
building; they have tables and chairs and every child has a
textbook. Most importantly, parents really understand now why
children should go to school."
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everything we do. Together with our partners, we work in 190
countries and territories to translate that commitment into
practical action, focusing special effort on reaching the most
vulnerable and excluded children, to the benefit of all children,
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