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Help improve children's opportunities for education
The funds raised in 2007 will support 12 UNICEF and Save the Children projects in 9 countries. These projects aim to improve children's education in a variety of ways. The main focus areas of the projects are:

• Improving the quality of education through teacher training, teaching materials, and learning materials for children such as exercise books, pens and pencils.

• Improving access to education through building schools and making them safe for children to be in and creating a good learning environment by providing school benches, desks, drinking water and toilets.

Save the Children projects to be supported in 2007

Albania: Improving access to and quality of education for children with disabilities
Bangladesh: Vocational training and fair treatment of child labourers
China: Strengthening education for children affected by migration
Ivory Coast: School rehabilitation
India: Keeping the children in school
Pakistan: Increasing access to books
Russia: Improving education conditions for children with disabilities
Vietnam: Early childhood education of children from minority groups


UNICEF projects to be supported in 2007

Albania: Libraries for public schools
Sierra Leone: Improving the quality of primary education
Vietnam: Better education for girls from ethnic minority groups
Vietnam: Healthy living and life skills education

Our responsibility
Safe and healthy products
Climate change
Forestry and wood
Cotton
Certified coffee
Our code of conduct, IWAY
Working conditions
Preventing child labor
IKEA Social Initiative
Community involvement
- National community involvement
- Environmental community projects
Partnerships