“Keur Joyce” is a lively nursery school in Ouakam nestled between the “Monument de la Renaissance Africaine” and Avenue Cheikh Anta Diop, a district of the Senegalese capital Dakar.

HOPE’87 continues to promote the Comprehensive School Safety framework, which aims to reduce the risks of all hazards to the education sector. 

In continuation of the previous interventions in Pakistan, HOPE’87 has recently started the implementation of the project “A Safer Tomorrow – Disaster Preparedness in Pakistan (STDP4)”. 

It all started about two years ago, when UNESCO Special Ambassador Dr Ute Ohoven decided to finally resolve the problems of the nearly 1.600 slum dwellers of Baraka, a shantytown in the very middle of the capital Dakar.

Haiti has an illiteracy rate of 47.1%, making education a key to development, social transformation and breaking the cycle of poverty. Although the government launched a free primary education program in 2011, the most vulnerable children have not benefited from this reform. With public schools accounting for less than 20% of schools in the country, access remains extremely limited.

The most recent food crisis impacting agro-pastoralists in the Sahel region led to the ECHO response plan of the 2016 Humanitarian Implementation Plan for Burkina Faso (“ECHO-Soudure”), covering the Oudalan province and provinces in the East and Centre-Nord regions. It is an emergency aid action financed by DG ECHO and led by a set of NGOs including the Sahel Consortium under the leadership of OXFAM, within a common framework of action comprising Christian Aid, Danish Refugees Council, GVC, HOPE’87, OCADES, SOS Sahel, Action against Hunger and Save the Children.