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Credit: UNESCO/Poulomi Basu Mr. Yadiah is a teacher at the government school in Andhra Pradesh, India. He is using activity based learning methods to teach a multigrade class of children from the 3rd, 4th and 5th standard.

Credit: Amina Sayeed/UNESCO Tough conditions: At a primary school in a village in Sindh, Pakistan, classes take place outside because the buildings collapsed years ago.

Credit: Nguyen Thanh Tuan/UNESCO Teaching diversity: At a school in Muong Khuong country, Viet Nam, students from 10 ethnic groups are taught in groups. Credit: Karel Prinsloo/ARETE/UNESCO Dorcas baths her child next to her hut in Turkana, Kenya. Educating mothers can help them protect their children from childhood diseases, malnutrition, and makes it far more likely they will seek medical help when pregnant and in childbirth.

Credit: UNESCO/Karel Prinsloo/ ARETE Teacher Ewesit teaches children under trees at a mobile school some 50 kilometres from Lodwar, Turkana, Kenya

Credit: Eva-Lotta Jansson/UNESCO New strategies: At a primary school in Johannesburg, South Africa, where teachers are guided by mentors to support them in implementing new teaching methods, students’ mathematics and literacy skills have improved. Credit: Karel Prinsloo/ARETE/UNESCO Teacher Bonafice from the private academy teaches students in Lodwar, Turkana, Kenya. Bonafice supplement his teachers salary with his small shop that his wife manage in the week and he manage at weekends.

Credit: Nguyen Thanh Tuan/UNESCO Language hurdles: Thi Thanh Hoan,a teacher in Muong Khuong county, Viet Nam: There are 13 ethnic students in my class. All Hmong girls. Sometimes when you teach in Vietnamese they seem not to understand. Credit: UNESCO/ Eduardo Martino Local knowledge: In this school in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, a teacher uses a corn cake recipe traditional to the area to explain quantities in a mathematics class.

Credit: Hugo Infante/UNESCO Learning conditions: At a primary school in a poor area of Antofagasta, Chile, learning has improved since the city and private foundations joined forces to improve infrastructure. Credit: UNESCO/Poulomi Basu Saraswati is a teacher at a Government school in Andhra Pradesh, India. She is 24 years old. Here she is assessing the work of her 2nd grade pupils. The parents of the students studying in this school are farmers. They are not very literate. they probably have studied till their 4th or 5th grade, and a few parents are completely illiterate. All the Government schools are telugu medium schools. From last year, the Government has introduced English as a subject for the first time. Andhra Pradesh.

Credit: Eva-Lotta Jansson/UNESCO Learners studying in a school in Eastern Cape, South Africa, in overcrowded classrooms with a lack of desks and chairs. Credit: Anna Kari/UNESCO Improving the scores: A mathematics class in a school in one of the poorest areas of London. Thanks to strong teaching policies, the school records outstanding results.

Credit: UNESCO/Amina Sayeed The teacher gap: At this primary school in Sindh, Pakistan, there is only one teacher for 100 pupils from five grades, so a pupil sometimes stands in for the teacher