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Group of Vietnamese schoolboys, South Vietnam

Society Vietnam

31. October 2025

Education Lifts Millions Out of Poverty

Vietnam has achieved one of the most remarkable poverty reductions in modern history — cutting extreme poverty from over 45% in the early 1990s to about 1% by 2022, largely through decades of sustained investment in education and rural development.

Society

School children in a school near Masai Mara Game Reserve in Kenya

Society Kenya

10. June 2024

Impactful Program Improves Reading Skills for Millions of Children

Following a decade-long collaboration, Kenya has been able to improve drastically primary literacy for five million children Grades 1 to 3, a goal not only achieved but surpassed ahead of schedule.

Society

School children during break in Tanzania

Society Tanzania

27. February 2024

Illiterate Adults Across the Nation Are Finally Learning How to Read!

Thanks to effective government-led initiatives encouraging reading ability nationwide, the adult literacy rate has significantly dropped in Tanzania over the past decades.

Society

Society Africa

3. February 2023

This Region Has Made Major Progress to Educate Their Kids

Primary school enrollment in Western and Central Africa has risen from 50 percent in the 1990s to nearly 90 percent today.

Society

Society USA

18. October 2022

Learning About Climate Change at School Will Now Become Mandatory

Climate change will now be taught in Connecticut, the United States, across all its public schools so students can learn the ins and outs of the environmental and societal challenges ahead.

Society

Society Cambodia

28. September 2022

(Much) More People Are Learning to Read in This Country

Cambodia's efforts to eradicate illiteracy is paying off: the literate rate among citizens 15 years old and above raised significantly over the last decade, with plans to increase enrolment as well as encourage more students to finish primary school.

Society

Society Sub-Saharan Africa

7. September 2021

Literacy

Education Lifts Millions Out of Poverty

Impactful Program Improves Reading Skills for Millions of Children

Illiterate Adults Across the Nation Are Finally Learning How to Read!

This Region Has Made Major Progress to Educate Their Kids

Learning About Climate Change at School Will Now Become Mandatory

(Much) More People Are Learning to Read in This Country

More and More Women Can Read and Write in This Region

97,2% is the literacy rate for Palestinians over the age of 15, up from 86,1% in 1997.