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June 26, 2015 Baljuvon district- Save the Children’s DFID funded Women’s Wealth and Influence (WW&I) Project staff conducted a half day training on “Parents against Radicalization” in the framework of OSCE’s “Violent Extremism and Radicalization Leading to Terrorism” Project in Baljuvon district. Representatives of WW&I Project women’s groups, as well as district authority representatives, the head of education and the head of labor and migration departments, took part in the training.

On Thursday, June 4, the USAID Quality Reading Project’s Umeda Ermatova stood before an eager, uniformed second-grade classroom in the city of Kulob in southern Tajikistan, preparing to proctor a reading exam. When she asked what work the students had done over the course of the past academic year, small hands shot into the air.

“I wrote a story based on a picture of a lake,” one boy proudly reported. A girl on the other side of the room piped up, “I memorized a poem about a village family.”

On any given day after the morning assembly students will proceed to their normal lessons at School #6 in Zimchurud Village of Varzob District, Tajikistan. On May 7, 2015, students at this school had new material to learn: Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR).

With over 20 years working experience in Central Asia, Save the Children has a long history of promoting the protection and rights of children regionally. As the International Day for Protection of Children, June 1 is a landmark day for the celebration of children across the world. Save the Children in Central Asia commemorated the day through a variety of activities in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.

As a 13-year social worker for a secondary school in Kyrgyzstan, Janulai Sulaimanova has faced many challenges in promoting inclusive education. The Ak-Suu secondary school in Moskovskii district, Chui region, Kyrgyzstan, is located in a semi-urban area featured by high levels of both internal and external migration, and hosts a mix of ethnically and linguistically diverse people. This diversity at times poses difficulty for Sulaimanova’s work.