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Dreaming of a brighter future

For World Literacy Day, we asked some children in Tanzania what difference their new electricity supply would make to their education.

The power to learn

Imagine how much less you would get done, if you couldn’t just flick on the light switch when it got dark. This is the challenge facing the one in seven people around the world who lack electricity. Some of those worst affected are school children.

Fifty years, fifty countries: Nigeria

Despite its immense resources Nigeria suffers from widespread poverty. Years of debilitating military rule have left its people vulnerable to corruption, economic instability and human rights violations. More than 7 million people in the north east of Nigeria are in need of humanitarian assistance.

Where can Children play in a refugee camp?

When 27-year-old Monjur arrived in the hot and crowded Kutupalong camp of Cox'sBazar his primary concern was the welfare of his children. As a Rohingya refugee arriving in Bangladesh from Myanmar he and his family had already witnessed unbearable scenes of violence. The Rohingya crisis, which started one year ago, has lead to over 700,000 people fleeing over the border to camps in Bangladesh.

‘We need to let them be children’: Tearfund on the need for childlike fun and trauma care for Rohingya crisis’ youngest

Fifty years, fifty countries: Niger

Niger is a landlocked country in West Africa, named after the River Niger. It’s the largest country in this part of Africa, and one of the world’s poorest. Of its 19 million population, 46 per cent of people suffer from chronic malnutrition, and access to basics such as safe sanitation and education is shockingly low.

Tearfund Statement on Floods in Kerala

Two strong hands

Fifty years, fifty countries: Nicaragua

Nicaragua is a multicultural, multi-ethnic country of more than six million inhabitants, of whom 15 per cent are from indigenous people groups. Tearfund has been working there since 1972, following a massive earthquake that hit the country’s capital, Managua.

Fifty years, Fifty countries: Nepal

Nepal is one of the poorest countries in Asia. With a lack of essential electricity and water, high levels of unemployment and widespread corruption, a quarter of the population live in extreme poverty – surviving on the equivalent of less than £1.45 a day.