Our work
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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- Albania
- Algeria
- Argentina
- Armenia
- Australia
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Bangladesh
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Bhutan
- Bolivia
- Bosnia Herzegovina
- Botswana
- Brazil
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Canada
- Central African Republic (CAR)
- China
- Colombia
- Congo
- Costa Rica
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Denmark
- Egypt
- Ethiopia
- Fiji
- Finland
- France
- Gambia
- Germany
- Ghana
- Greece
- Guinea
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Hungary
- India
- Indonesia
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Ivory Coast
- Jamaica
- Japan
- Jordan
- Kenya
- Latvia
- Lebanon
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Luxembourg
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Mexico
- Moldova
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Namibia
- Nepal
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Nigeria
- Norway
- Pakistan
- Palestine
- Papua New Guinea
- Peru
- Philippines
- Poland
- Qatar
- Rwanda
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Sierra Leone
- Singapore
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Korea
- Spain
- Sri Lanka
- State of Palestine
- Sudan
- Swaziland
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Syria
- Taiwan
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Togo
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- United States of America
- Uzbekistan
- Vietnam
- Yemen
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
All Projects
A safe place to learn
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.
Skills for the future
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.
Innovation Awards
The best start in life
Every child deserves a healthy birth and quality early childhood development and education. We work to unlock the best start for every child.
Global Youth Ambassadors
Healing Through Learning with Ajyal Foundation
Dent Education Inc.
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
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.
Designathon Works
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
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
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.
PACEmaker International
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
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 SPELLING BEE
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
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
Digital Chronicles aims to make the teacher and student of today more comfortable using modern technology in the classroom.
Crisis in the Middle East: a call to action for children and youth
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.
Early Childhood Development in Gaza: A Blueprint and Urgent Call for Action
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.
Blooming Buds, with Jeeva Jyothi
Transforming the lives of children in rural villages and slums in Puzhal block, India through early childhood education and good nutrition
Mamapreneurs for Early Childhood with Kidogo
Improving access to high-quality affordable childcare in Kenya
Health and Life Skills education with ZanaAfrica Foundation
Helping girls in rural Kenya understand their changing bodies and their rights
Helping Refugees Reaching University with Mosaik Education
Empowering refugees to access higher education
Young Climate Heroes in the Making, with Earth Warriors
Bespoke climate education for children and teachers on the frontline of the climate crisis.
Stay with Ukraine, Junior
Keeping Ukrainian refugee children connected to home through remote education.
Jennifer Brown Research Laboratory
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.
Focus on Kenya
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.
Theirworld Edinburgh Birth Cohort
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.
Small Grants Programme
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.
Education Innovation Awards
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 in Lebanon
MBA scholarships transforming the lives of refugees and vulnerable adults in Lebanon.
Global Youth Ambassadors
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.