In Pakistan, the schools reopened on the 30th of September 2020 to welcome the students after a gap of more than six months due to the coronavirus pandemic. Only half of the children attend the classes on alternate days of the week.

In response to COVID-19, the government of Pakistan closed down all educational institutions from March 2020 until 14th September, 2020. The federal minister for education announced to re-open the country’s educational institutions in various phases from 15th September, 2020 to 30th September, 2020 if the situation allows to do so.

Mali and Burkina Faso, two neighboring countries, are marked by a developing economy with over 40% of the population living below the poverty line estimated at US$1.90 per day. 

Revolutions take place in a society that no longer wants to follow the enforced traditions of their previous generations. These changes can be as small as enrolling the young children in a school where they are able to pave a new path for the future. 

Yesterday the new Director-General of the OPEC Fund for International Development, Dr Abdulhamid Alkhalifa, welcomed the delegation of our Chairman and Director of the Department of Coordination, Economy, Labour Market and Energy of the Federal Chancellery of Austria, Ministerial Counsellor Norbert Feldhofer, and Secretary General of HOPE'87, Mr Robert Ottitsch, to the OFID premises in Vienna.

With the beginning of July HOPE’87 in cooperation with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) started implementing a humanitarian aid project in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.