She’s the perfect example which shows it’s never too late to learn”. “She’s embraced this opportunity to restart her education with all her energy. “She’s a fine student and very dedicated,” is the feedback. While conceding it is not an ideal situation, teacher Huda Kanaan comments on Jinan’s rapid progress. Since the start of 2020, all UNICEF partners implementing BLN have provided ABLN to cater to these children’s needs.Ĭourses currently continue to be held online through distance learning. These children not able to follow the regular BLN and therefore remained out of learning. In July 2019, UNICEF started to implement an adapted BLN (ABLN) programme that targets Lebanese as well as non-Lebanese children in the same age group of 10-14 years old but who come from the most marginalized pockets and suffer from multiple deprivations, including child labour, child marriage and disabilities. As such, most of what she’d previously learned, she’d forgotten. While Jinan was a student in an earlier non-formal education programme between the ages of five and seven, since then, and for the last three years, she has been out of learning. “And since Jinan enrolled in UNICEF’s adapted basic literacy and numeracy (ABLN) programme at the beginning of March, she’s been transformed”.
“My daughter’s confidence is now sky-high,” reports mother Amouna. Their effects are proving to be profound. “It’s still uncomfortable”, she laughs, “and is taking some getting used to”. “These are the best things that have ever happened to me,” Jinan smiles, wiping a tear from below her new prosthetic. Today a refugee living on the outskirts of Tripoli in northern Lebanon, through a UNICEF-supported NFE programme partner Naba’a, she’s receiving her first experiences in education and has been provided with her first ocular prosthesis. A few months old, she lost her eye right in an explosion. Ten-year-old Jinan was born amid Syria’s ongoing civil conflict. In Lebanon, UNICEF-supported NFE programmes are ushering a generation of children back to class, delivering learning, life skills and other, sometimes unexpected, benefits. Alongside formal schooling, non-formal education programmes (NFE) can prove to be crucial to attend to children who are unable to access mainstream systems. Yet, for many other children, the door to education remains firmly shut. On any given school day, over 1 billion children around the world head to class.
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