Informal Schools in Nairobi
Free primary education (FPE) was introduced in Kenya in 2003 resulting in a dramatic increase in the number of children enrolled in schools. The influx of additional pupils has impacted…
Educating marginalised children in Kolkata
Amidst the negative press coverage about the Catholic Church that has saturated the media following the ongoing revelations about sexual abuse and its cover-up, it was refreshing to read the…
Christian Brothers Support Birth Registration Program
In Sierra Leone the Christian Brothers are embarking on a nation-wide birth registration sensitization program in collaboration with Cord-Aid Sierra Leone. Article 7 of the Convention on the Rights of…
Work of the Christian Brothers with Former Child-Soldiers in Sierra Leone Acknowledged
The work of the Christian Brothers in providing psycho-social and educational support to young people traumatized by war in Sierra Leone was acknowledged in a recent article in the local…
ERI Supports Caritas Campaign
ERI supports the Caritas Internationalis HAART for Children global campaign to promote supply of and access to medicines for children living with HIV/AIDS and is encouraging all Edmund Rice Schools…
An Issue of Child Rights
It is difficult not to view the recent excommunication of the nine-year old girl who had become involuntarily pregnant because of rape as a clear issue of the rights of…
Reading on the Bus
How many of you read on the bus? Maybe you don’t ride the bus. My work commute takes 50 minutes, composed of a seven minute bus commute at the start,…
In India it’s a Guy Thing!
The title above is a deliberately ironic comment on what is a serious issue. We all remember those movies about infanticide. The ones showing babies being plunged in tubs of…
Corporal Punishment
We have come a long way from a time when violence against children and young people in the form of corporal punishment was widely acceptable. Studies of childhood remind us…
DRC: The violence still goes on
A recent Amnesty International Report on human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) draws attention to the continuing perpetration of violence against children and young people…