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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 30 October 2025 Burundi: strong trade union commitment leads to increased school attendance and eradication of child labour
Thanks to decisive action by the STEB (Education Workers’ Union of Burundi) and support from international partners, 578 children have been able to return to school in the municipality of Ndava, 50 kilometres from Bujumbura the country’s capital. Ndava is currently the scene of an outstanding collective effort to eradicate...
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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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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.
Burundi: over 400 children return to school thanks to education union project against child labour