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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 12 June 2025 Over 1,880 children brought back to school thanks to education unions working to end child labour
Across 6 countries in Africa, education union programmes against child labour are delivering life-changing results. In 2024 alone, over 1,880 former child labourers have been returned to classrooms in project areas in Burundi, Malawi, Mali, Togo, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 11 June 2025 Education voices | How a union is mobilising communities against child labour in Burundi
Rémy Nsengiyumva
Since 2021, projects run by the STEB education workers’ union of Burundi have enabled more than 900 former child workers to return to school. Remy Nsengiyumva, President of the STEB, reflects on the strategies used in these projects supported by Education International, the AOb, NEA, GEW Fair Childhood Foundation, and...
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Leading the profession 23 April 2025 Education International brings hope and effective strategies to curb child labour
Thanks to an Education International project on child labour, working with union members and their local communities, 1,880 children were brought back to school last year in six participating countries: Burundi, Malawi, Mali, Togo, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.
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Equity and inclusion 10 December 2024 Malawi: Coming together across borders to eradicate child labour
Education unionists from Burundi, Mali, Senegal, Togo, Uganda, and Zimbabwe came together in Malawi to learn about successful local efforts to end child labour. From 1 to 6 December 2024, coordinators and project leaders spearheading the unions’ work against child labour had the opportunity to exchange know-how and good practice...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 31 October 2024 Burundi: over 400 children return to school thanks to education union project against child labour
404 children came back to school in September 2024 in the Gihanga commune of Burundi thanks to a project against child labour implemented by STEB, the Union of Education Workers of Burundi, with support from Education International, the Fair Childhood Foundation of GEW, AOb, and Mondiaal FNV.
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Leading the profession 21 November 2022 Burundi: trade union development tools developed through international trade union cooperation
Thanks to a cooperation programme with the Danish Union of Teachers (DLF) of Denmark, the Syndicat des travailleurs de l’enseignement du Burundi (STEB) has produced booklets that cover all the questions frequently asked by teachers at the grassroots level. The booklets are a Training Manual and a Handbook for Trade...
Burundi: trade union development tools developed through international trade union cooperation
Development Cooperation Projects
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Social Dialogue and Quality Education in East Africa
- Cooperating organizations
- FEATU (Federation of East Africa Teachers Unions) ; KNUT; TTU; ZATU; UNATU; SNER; SYNEDUC; STEB
- Countries
- East Afrika: Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi
- Start date
- 1 January 2018
- End date
- 31 December 2021
Affiliates
Syndicat Libre des Travailleurs de l'Enseignement du Burundi
STEBAvenue de la J.R.R. Immeuble FVS/AMADE bureau n°9 6462 Bujumbura