#schoolrebuild

Peter Gabriels’ “Egwu Obosi” is more than music—it’s rebuilding classrooms and restoring hope in Obosi. Watch how Afrobeat is driving real impact. 🎶🏫

“Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.” - Kofi Anan

Education empowers children and families to be heroes in their community. We can help our Yazidi friends live free, full lives by restoring educational opportunities. Through The Amar Project we’re partnering with communities to rebuild schools in areas where conflict has torn them apart, because when kids go back to school, hope comes back to the community.

Thanks to the support of UK charity Be One Percent, our latest school rebuild in Kurdistan has been completed in time for the start of the new school year!

Cement repairs, fresh paint, and restored doors are ready to be opened for the coming school year. 

What better way to prepare for the upcoming school year than to offer students and adults a one-month intensive English course in the newly remodeled school! These students are so eager to learn you can hear a pin drop as they diligently took notes during an afternoon in the Kurdistan heat.

We were asked by one of the girls, who attended our weekly education class that was hosted in a family’s living room, to transition the class to the newly remodeled school. They were hopeful to continue learning English and taking art lessons before their school year started. Partners Relief & Development team said yes to this one child’s request; with her, over 60 Yazidi students crowded into the renovated classroom, hungry to learn.

There are few examples in nature that tell the story of transformation better than that of the butterfly. This mural is one of several what will cover the walls of the newly renovated school. A few little helpers stayed through the heat of the day, helping to hold paint, clean brushes, and the highlight was being able to put some paint on the wall themselves. The children here jump at any opportunity to use their creativity, imagination, and come alive when they see beauty and color.

Access to education is especially important for girls. According to UN Women, “Every additional year of primary school increases girls' eventual wages by 10-20 percent. It also encourages them to marry later and have fewer children, and leaves them less vulnerable to violence.”