{"id":3781,"date":"2015-05-14T14:35:58","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T13:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/?p=3781"},"modified":"2015-05-14T14:35:58","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T13:35:58","slug":"transforming-education-why-were-proud-to-support-onebillion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/transforming-education-why-were-proud-to-support-onebillion\/","title":{"rendered":"Transforming education: why we&#8217;re proud to support onebillion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><em>As you may know, EuroTalk is a proud supporter of <a title=\"onebillion\" href=\"https:\/\/onebillion.org\" target=\"_blank\">onebillion<\/a>, a non-profit organisation working to transform education for one billion children in developing countries. You may even have used their maths apps with your child (if you haven&#8217;t discovered them yet, they&#8217;re on the <a title=\"onebillion maths apps for children\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/gb\/artist\/onebillion\/id908075819\" target=\"_blank\">App Store<\/a>). To find out more about onebillion&#8217;s fantastic work, and how far they&#8217;ve already come, read on&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Zahira is a six-year-old Malawian child. As a young girl in Malawi, she only has a 50% chance of finishing primary school, and a 50% chance of being married off before she\u2019s 18. In this short TED talk by onebillion\u2019s co-founder Jamie, he explains how our oneclass project is helping to change her future. onebillion\u2019s educational apps are being used in schools all across Malawi, to provide accessible and effective maths and literacy learning to primary school children. This time a year ago, we had a oneclass centre in two schools in Lilongwe. Today, we have the funding to open almost <b>a hundred<\/b> new centres in schools all over the country, and bring transformational education to another 30,000 children over the coming three years. This talk was given by Jamie at TEDxYouth in Lilongwe last year: watch it to find out more about onebillion\u2019s project and where we\u2019re headed.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z0ru-tfrmB4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>For more information, visit <a title=\"onebillion website\" href=\"https:\/\/onebillion.org\" target=\"_blank\">onebillion&#8217;s website<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>There&#8217;s also still time to enter the <a title=\"EuroTalk Junior Language Challenge\" href=\"https:\/\/eurotalk.com\/jlc\" target=\"_blank\">Junior Language Challenge<\/a>, our annual competition for primary school children in the UK, which has already raised over \u00a35,000 for onebillion. We&#8217;d love to make it \u00a36,000 (or more)!<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you may know, EuroTalk is a proud supporter of onebillion, a non-profit organisation working to transform education for one billion children in developing countries. You may even have used their maths apps with your child (if you haven&#8217;t discovered them yet, they&#8217;re on the App Store). To find out more about onebillion&#8217;s fantastic work, &#8230; <a title=\"Transforming education: why we&#8217;re proud to support onebillion\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/transforming-education-why-were-proud-to-support-onebillion\/\" aria-label=\"More on Transforming education: why we&#8217;re proud to support onebillion\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[305],"tags":[113,1116,167,1117,620,1118,1119,1120],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}