With the new school year just around the corner, you can bring joy and opportunities to children who need it most.
Your generosity helps provide essential school supplies and facilities that help children in need achieve their full potential.
With the ‘Back to School’ initiative, Islamic Relief Australia strives to remove the barriers to education for children in need.
At this time, millions of children fill their new backpacks with brand-new school supplies, eager to start their new school year. However, for underprivileged children locally and globally, going to school is a luxury they are unable to afford.
That’s why our campaign empowers underprivileged children around the world with holistic support. Providing them with opportunities and tools to thrive in school without fear of poverty or hunger.
Because we believe that every child, regardless of their circumstances, deserves the opportunity to attend school. To explore their potential and build a brighter future for themselves and their communities.
By supplying school essentials like books, uniforms, and stationery, alongside nutritious meals and access to safe drinking water, this initiative ensures children from impoverished and vulnerable communities can not only go to school, but excel in every aspect.
Education is a powerful key for empowerment. It provides the tools and skills needed for children to discover their full potential, helping them find more secure and sustainable livelihoods.
Through learning, children gain critical thinking skills and knowledge. This enables them to seek better job opportunities. To find solutions that lift themselves and their families from poverty, breaking the cycle for future generations.
Furthermore, education teaches children about their rights. It gives them the confidence to assert and protect these rights, encouraging them to dream bigger and strive for more.
Therefore, a good education provides a ripple effect of empowerment. One that begins with a single child heading back to school. Who goes onto building a better life for not only their family but their entire community, thanks to your support.
Your support for the Back to School campaign helps provide essential school support to vulnerable children in countries like Lebanon. These programs benefit both local and refugee children.
The support includes key supplies, such as school kits and stationery items, for hundreds of students. Resources that will help them learn and excel in school.
Back to School also provides the children with inclusive education and psychosocial care. As well as repairs and rehabilitation work undertaken on school infrastructure.
A lack of proper water, sanitation and solid waste disposal facilities at schools exposes students to multiple risks of water borne diseases. This impacts negatively on learning outcomes and reduces attendance.
This is prevalent countries like Pakistan, where in some districts, up to 20% of schools do not have latrines. 33% of schools in these areas also do not have clean drinking water facilities.
Through your support, Islamic Relief implemented a program to rehabilitate and improve water and sanitation services in schools in Pakistan.
Together, we ensured safe and healthy learning environments for both local and Afghan refugee children, increasing attendance and health outcomes within the areas supported.
A $350 sponsorship covers the costs for a vulnerable child’s education need for an entire year. This includes providing school supplies, covering tuition fees and ensuring the child’s family are provided for.
Water is essential for every living thing. Children going to schools without proper water, hygiene and sanitation facilities, face a higher risk of contracting water borne diseases. If left unaddressed, students’ attendance rates and their overall wellbeing deceases.
By providing WASH facilities for schools in areas most in need of it, students can thrive in a safe and healthy learning environment.
