Category: Education

Nuru Literacy Strategies Improve Reading Skills Among Learners

Caroline Akinyi Okore is a government teacher at St. Luke’s Primary School in Malunga, where she has instructed for the last fifteen years….

Nuru Education Celebrates World Book Day 2017 And Reading

Last year, the Nuru Education team celebrated World Book and Copyright Day by sharing their favorite books and why they love to read….

Nuru Kenya Education Program Ends; New Beginnings Await

After five years of lessons taught and of students impacted, Nuru Kenya Education is ending its outreach program to transition to a new…

Nuru Ethiopia Encourages Girls to Attend School

In early 2015, when Nuru’s Education team was beginning the Program Planning Process, one of the biggest challenges identified by community members, schools,…

Introducing Feven Yimer, Nuru Ethiopia Education Program Manager

Feven Yimer is the Education Program Manager for Nuru Ethiopia. She has a Masters in Sociology from Indra Gandhi National Open University and…

Nuru Kenya helps teachers adopt new literacy training techniques

Teachers in Kenya do not get many training opportunities once they are assigned to schools. This means they aren’t always exposed to the…

Favorite Childhood Books of Nuru Education Staff

As the world celebrates World Book and Copyright Day on Saturday, April 23rd, members of the Nuru Education team reflect on what books…

Growing up in a world with(out) storybooks #BookDay

One of my favorite book series when I was growing up was C.S. Lewis’ “The Chronicles of Narnia.” In these books, children from…

Nuru’s Role in Global Education: Reflections on CIES 2016

What do you get when you bring nearly 2,700 attendees from countries all over the world—representing international NGOs, ministries of education, academic institutions…

Are you reading this in your native language?

Recently, the Global Campaign for Education (GCE) estimated that 221 million children in developing countries were unable to understand the language of instruction…