'A footprint means pressing down and global means world, so 'global footprint' means pressing down on the world and we don't want to press too hard' (child's definition of a Global Footprint)

HEC has partners who seek to empower some of their country's most excluded and vulnerable children.

Bangladesh
School Under the Sky - KYAG

CSKS - Chinnamul Shishu Kishore Sangstha
A street children programme in Dhaka
KYAG - Khasdobir Youth Action Group
A locally run educational, development and welfare project in Sylhet
 
 

Guatemala
guatemala photo

Niños Photographos de Guatemala
(Young Photographers of Guatemala)

Western Sahara
Western Sahara

Young Saharawi living in refugee camps in the Algerian desert.

 

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In Tanzania, 12% more children were found to attend school when safe water was available within 15 minutes from their homes rather than one hour away.

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