Our partnership with Justice Rising

Having a safe space to learn and grow is critical for children in their developmental years, but for children living in war zones it is often disrupted. Justice Rising specializes in building schools and supporting education in war zones, mitigating conflict through the power of education. During the the spread of COVID-19, schools around the world were required to shut down, disrupting child education and development through a different kind of crisis. As schools began closing, Justice Rising utilized their expertise in supporting education during societal crises and began to mobilize over 100 of their teachers to respond in the Democratic Republic of Congo. They responded in two major ways: to ensure minimal regression in students’ learning they distributed distance-learning workbooks. To do this, Teachers were supplied with Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), to protect and prevent spread of the virus: hand sanitizer, face masks, and face shields. Second, they disseminated basic public health messaging through radio messages to reinforce the best practices for water, sanitation, and hygiene.