For now, many parents and their children are living on standby, too afraid to go home, let alone consider school.

It’s time to stock up on BIC pens, wrap textbooks, and go hunting for those missing lunchbox Tupperware lids - back-to-school season has officially ...

The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child also contain ... I began nursery school when I was 8 years old.

In West Africa, children most vulnerable to trafficking ... “I needed money, and I couldn’t go to school.” In his community, he said that the school only offered classes in the morning ...

Protecting young girls from child marriage and giving them a chance to go to school and achieve their full potential. Despite efforts to end child marriage globally, an estimated 12 million girls are ...

During his first week at school, five-year-old Michael Komape drowned in a pit latrine in northern South Africa ... predominately black children. Also to blame is the failure to maintain existing ...

Save the Children has worked in Africa for more than 60 years. Today, with millions of children and families in Africa already struggling to cope with the impacts of conflict and climate change, ...