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One of the World’s Poorest Countries 50 Years Ago is Now the Home of Samsung, Kia, and Hyundai–Thanks to Education
In three years, civil war devastated the small Korean Peninsula leaving behind two countries riddled with extreme poverty. In the North, famine, starvation, and extreme poverty stalk the land even now. Today in South Korea, there are staple dishes centered around...
Does Education Technology Help Students in Low-Income Countries?
With globalization, students around the world must be highly skilled and graduate with a quality education--or risk unemployment. Technology skills have become a necessity for employment in the global North. In the South, with strained markets and high unemployment,...
Connect This Holiday, Even with a Full Calendar
This time of year, the air is full of a tingling holiday buzz. Pie plates and gravy boats are dusted off. There’s a last-minute scramble to call my mom for a recipe. In Denver, the heat clicks on in the mornings and evenings while we scavenge wool socks from the...
Quality Education Means Needing 68.8 Million More Quality Teachers
One of the greatest pieces to the global education crisis often goes overlooked: teachers. Good teachers remain an essential and crucial key to quality education, healthy schools, and students truly learning --no matter where you live. But there’s a problem. Globally,...
$30 Trillion: The Cost of Uneducated Girls
Girls across the world are 50% more likely to be out of school than boys—but why? Miriam Sawadogo Abibatou is from Burkina Faso. In recent years, less than half of all school-aged girls attended primary school and only a quarter of them completed. For most girls in...
A Week in the Life: Guatemala Country Director, Karla De Pineda
At Edify, we often talk about the impact our programs have and the transformation that is taking place in the lives of school owners, teachers and students. We know that a quality Christ-centered education changes lives and is the best pathway out of poverty. But how...