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Chile<br />

page 151<br />

In 1994 <strong>in</strong> Chile, a boy stands <strong>in</strong> the ma<strong>in</strong> square of the town<br />

of San Pedro de Atacama.<br />

© UNICEF/NYHQ1994-1356/Wichenberger<br />

Costa Rica<br />

page 153<br />

Guaymi Indigenous Reserve.<br />

© UNESCO/Johny Esquivel Tenorio<br />

Cuba<br />

page 157<br />

A smil<strong>in</strong>g boy sits outdoors with other children at the Renato<br />

Guitart primary school <strong>in</strong> Havana, the capital.<br />

© UNICEF/NYHQ1995-0397/Barbour<br />

page 161<br />

Girls and boys play a game with wooden blocks at the Isabel<br />

Rubio rural school <strong>in</strong> the La Guasasa community, P<strong>in</strong>ar del Rio<br />

Prov<strong>in</strong>ce, Cuba.<br />

© UNICEF/NYHQ1995-0409/Barbour<br />

Nicaragua<br />

page 163<br />

A girl smiles as she stands by a runn<strong>in</strong>g tap connected<br />

to a water tank provided by UNICEF for displaced families<br />

<strong>in</strong> the town of Palacagu<strong>in</strong>a, 105 km north of Managua,<br />

the capital.<br />

© UNICEF/NYHQ1998-0678/Balaguer<br />

Peru<br />

page 167<br />

Students reach for an assignment <strong>in</strong> a primary school <strong>in</strong><br />

Llacuash, a farm<strong>in</strong>g community <strong>in</strong> the district of Huallanca.<br />

The two teachers hike an hour through the mounta<strong>in</strong>s each<br />

day to reach the school, which approximately 25 children<br />

attend. The school is a part of the national system, and classes<br />

are conducted <strong>in</strong> Spanish. Although most of the children<br />

speak Spanish <strong>in</strong> addition to their native language of Quechua,<br />

students who only speak their native language have difficulty<br />

understand<strong>in</strong>g the lessons. Provid<strong>in</strong>g learn<strong>in</strong>g materials <strong>in</strong><br />

<strong>in</strong>digenous languages helps to ensure that students reap<br />

the rewards of their education.<br />

© UNICEF/NYHQ2011-1605/LeMoyne<br />

Egypt<br />

page 173<br />

Children participate <strong>in</strong> a group activity dur<strong>in</strong>g a life-skills peer<br />

education session at the UNICEF-supported Abu Tig Youth<br />

Centre <strong>in</strong> Abu Tig, a town <strong>in</strong> Asyut Governorate.<br />

© UNICEF/NYHQ2007-2718/Noorani<br />

Bangladesh<br />

page 177<br />

Resma, 9, salvages damaged textbooks <strong>in</strong> what used to be her<br />

room, <strong>in</strong> the village of Amua <strong>in</strong> Barisal District, one of the area's<br />

hardest hit by Cyclone Sidr. The roof of her family's home blew<br />

off <strong>in</strong> the storm.<br />

© UNICEF/NYHQ2007-1805/Noorani<br />

<strong>Disaster</strong> <strong>Risk</strong> <strong>Reduction</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>School</strong> <strong>Curricula</strong>: <strong>Case</strong> <strong>Studies</strong> from Thirty Countries

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