COWF ABWAAB REMOTE EDUCATION PROGRAM FOR REFUGEES & MARGINALIZED STUDENTS
MAJOR support FROM UNIQUE ZAN FOUNDATION
Education challenges in MENAP region
Refugee and vulnerable host community children continue to face high barriers to education, including overcrowded classrooms, long travel distances to the nearby school, low quality of education and financial constraints.
The COVID-19 pandemic and related school closures and socio-economic impacts have disproportionately affected vulnerable young people.
In August 2020, a collaboration was established between COWF and Abwaab EdTech to support vulnerable children with access to high quality education, through Abwaab’s online learning platform. Our initial pilot reached 33 students. Since then, with successful results, with students graduating local public high school with higher than average grades, who could not before. The program has scaled to over 250 students.
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COWF Abwaab Accredited Remote Education
Only 2 out of 10 refugee adolescents, attend school. (Source: Refugee education in crisis: UNHCR.) In an effort to combat this problem in Jordan, which is home to one of the largest refugee populations, COWF and e-learning platform Abwaab partnered to help refugee and marginalized students continue their high school education at their own pace regardless of their circumstances. A first of its kind initiative, COWF is the only non-profit in Jordan partnered with an accredited education platform....More
COWF ABWAAB REMOTE EDUCATION PROGRAM
"No one is so poor as an ignorant person."
