Assembly (for ages 7-14)
How many
children around
the world are
missing out on
school?
24 million
45 million
57 million
How many
children who
are missing out
on school have
a disability?
4 million
11 million
24 million
Lucy , aged eleven lives in
Kenya. She has polio which
affects her right leg.
Photo: Arjun Kohli/Arete Stories/
ActionAid
Tasui lives in Nigeria. He is
fifteen and contracted polio
when he was two. He
campaigns for children to go to
school..
Photo: Kate Holt/Shoot the Earth/
ActionAid
Tasui helping his family at
home in Kaduna, Nigeria.
Photo: Kate Holt/Shoot the Earth/
ActionAid
Ade talking to pupils at
Southern Road Primary School
in East London.
Photo: Garry Crompton/Southern Road
Primary School
Ade and pupils joining the Send
All My Friends to School
campaign.
Photo: Garry Crompton/Southern Road
Primary School
In the year 2000
there were 114
million children
out of school ….
Today, the number of
children out of school has
halved. But, 57 million
children are still missing
out.
1 in 3 of these children
have a disability.
Linh, aged seven lives in
Vietnam. She is being carried
by her mum to school. Linh has
a paralysed leg.
Photo: Oxfam
Difasi, aged eight lives in
Uganda. He has been blind
since birth. He doesn’t go to
school because there are no
teaching materials for him.
Photo: Georgina Cranston/SightSavers
Borsha, aged nine lives in
Bangladesh. She is blind but
goes to school because her
teachers are trained to support
blind children.
Photo: Georgina Cranston/Sightsavers
Circles of influence
Lynne Featherstone, MP visiting
Rhodes Avenue Primary School
in 2013.
Photo: Richard Baker/Oxfam
Campaigner, Emma speaking
to MPs at the House of
Commons in 2013.
Photo: Mark Chilvers/ActionAid
Campaigner Navdeep speaking
Children
from
two
at Malala
Day
atWelsh
the House of
school
meeting
the
Commons in July, Prime
2013.
Minister at Downing Street in
Photo: Mark Chilvers/ActionAid
2013.