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140 countries around the world
Our projects and campaigns are active in more than 140 countries, and the vast majority of our projects are led by local social entrepreneurs and project partners. Working together with these partners, we design and deliver on-the-ground projects to drive progress and scale impact through education.
Theirworld projects operate in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and North America and include activities ranging from early childhood education centres, girls' entrepreneurship clubs, refugee education projects and youth skills initiatives.
Our Innovation Awards provide social entrepreneurs with seed funding, mentorship and scaling expertise to expand the reach of their education innovations. And our Small Grants programme helps community organisations have a meaningful, local impact.
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Young people are the next generation of changemakers, campaigners, entrepreneurs and workers. We work to help them develop the skills they’ll need to fulfill their potential, take part meaningfully in society and grow the global economy.
Every child has the right to an education free from fear of discrimination, violence or attack. We work to provide refugees, girls, children with disabilities and other underserved young people with the education they deserve.
Every child deserves a healthy birth and quality early childhood development and education. We work to unlock the best start for every child.
Dent Education empowers Baltimore youth aged 14-24 from underserved communities with the skills, mindsets, and networks to thrive in the 21st-century economy. Their programs use an Earn-to-Learn model, offering paid internships where young people gain real-world experience in innovation-focused pathways: entrepreneurship, design, engineering, and technology.
EdCamp Ukraine's mission is to unite educators and help them grow. They aim to promote and enhance social and emotional learning among Ukrainian educators; to raise awareness of and engagement in civic activities like human rights issues, civic education, non-discrimination, inclusion, integrity, and education in crisis; to reach a broader constituency and inspire networking.
The goal of Designathon Works is to enable 1 million children around the world to become changemakers for a better world. They empower children ages 5-12 worldwide to design sustainable futures using simple technologies through a collaborative design process.
The Reflective Learning Foundation is a tech-based teacher tool which identifies and catches up gaps in the students’ conceptual Maths and English knowledge. The software diagnoses learning gaps of each individual student across specific concepts, then offers remedial learning.
ThinkZone aims to ensure every child has the chance to pursue their dreams by enhancing learning outcomes in low-resource areas through high-quality education programs.
PACE aims to create equitable learning opportunities for students in informal &rural areas of Africa. They target Kenyan high school graduates on their gap years and university students on long holidays, and encourage them to become teaching supporters for students in underserved schools.
Power Learn Project (PLP) aims to lower the financial, geographical and entry barriers of accessibility to tech skills for youth in Africa who then transition to decent work and gainful livelihoods within the digital economy.
Enjuba's mission is to improve literacy and essential life skills for Ugandan children by providing high-quality pre-primary education, targeting rural areas where over 80% of the Ugandan population resides.
Digify Foundation is committed to bridging the digital divide by equipping African youth with critical digital literacy skills. They aim to foster digital empowerment, increase access to digital education, and prepare the next generation of African learners for success in the digital economy.
Digital Chronicles aims to make the teacher and student of today more comfortable using modern technology in the classroom.
Charmaghz's main aim is to contribute to securing a future Afghanistan where children are empowered as key agents of change both within their immediate lives, as well as within a long-term dialogue to generate justice, equity, and dignity for all Afghans.
In response to the conflict in the Middle East, Theirworld is preparing several reports and implementing several projects to respond to the education, learning and support needs of children and youth affected by the crises.
Theirworld has published a report, “Early Childhood Development in Gaza: A Blueprint and Urgent Call for Action” calling for a coalition to champion early childhood development and outlining the needs to shape and coordinate a comprehensive response plan, facilitating resource mobilization with partners, and advocating for urgent and collective action.
Transforming the lives of children in rural villages and slums in Puzhal block, India through early childhood education and good nutrition
Improving access to high-quality affordable childcare in Kenya
Helping girls in rural Kenya understand their changing bodies and their rights
Empowering refugees to access higher education
Bespoke climate education for children and teachers on the frontline of the climate crisis.
Keeping Ukrainian refugee children connected to home through remote education.
Created in 2004, the Jennifer Brown Research Laboratory works to improve understanding of what causes early labour, how we can develop treatments to prevent it and how we can better help newborn babies in those first crucial hours and days after birth.
We’re investing in research and working alongside local community partners to raise the profile of the importance of children’s early years across the political spectrum.
Funded by Theirworld, the Edinburgh Birth Cohort is a world-first study in which researchers from the Jennifer Brown Research Laboratory monitor the progress of 400 premature babies from birth to adulthood.
Theirworld’s Small Grants Programme gives grants of up to £10,000 to registered charities and non-profits helping disadvantaged and overlooked young people in the UK and around the world.
Theirworld’s Education Innovation Awards offers non-profits, NGOs and charities the chance to secure scale-up grants and resources to help their work in reaching overlooked youth and children.
MBA scholarships transforming the lives of refugees and vulnerable adults in Lebanon.
The Global Youth Ambassador programme gives young people who are passionate about ending the education crisis the skills, knowledge and community to unlock big change at a local and global level.
