ONE Songs for Chinese Workers
ONE Perceptions of Social Welfare in Hong Kong
ONE Working at Home in Indonesia
ONE Education for Minorities in China
ONE Education for Mozambican Girls
r be em pt Se 07 20 poor to afford tuition, governments are
e du c ation for minoritie s c an b e
where most of the population is ethnic
closing these separations. It is about
too poor or too mismanaged to fund
limited.
minorities, we will soon support a
making the dream of going to school
curriculum with a Tibetan orientation.
a reality for a girl named Anatércia
basic education, villages have no schools
For girls around the world, there is
close enough for young kids to get to,
another set of obstacles. When income
In Beijing, a totally different kind
Paulino in Mozambique and for a
secondary schools are boarding schools
is tight, many parents choose to send the
of project is in place: animation is
Tibetan herder named Dela Dongzhi
It’s the middle of September, and
too far away and beyond financial means
son to school, not the daughter. Even
being used to teach children about
in China. It is for making the rights of
the children in Hong Kong are back
anyway, and on and on. The reasons why
when there is enough money, tradition
environmental issues. It is part of our
Indonesian home-based workers and
in school. Clusters of students in their
more than 100 million children can not
can keep girls out of the classroom and
outreach work with youth in mainland
Chinese migrant workers recognised by
pressed and unpressed uniforms, often
go to school are too many to list.
in the home, and married off as a young
China and in Hong Kong. The aim: to
the public and actualised in law.
teenager.
instil a sense of global connectedness
with plaids and pleats, ties of various
In Hong Kong, it is mostly the poorer
sorts (on girls and boys), and the
ethnic minority students, primarily of
The issue of O.N.E looks at a few of the
ubiquitous emblem.
and responsibility.
Yes, this magazine is named O.N.E for a reason.
South Asian descent, who can have
many Oxfam projects against inequity in
There can be so many divisions in
Madeleine Marie Slavick
At the same time, there are millions
difficulty finding an appropriate school,
education. In Mozambique, girls are
the world, by sex, race, class, religion,
Editor, Oxfam News E-magazine
of school-aged children around the
with an appropriate curriculum. In
being assisted through scholarships
ethnicity, education, political affiliation,
Oxfam Hong Kong
world out of school: families are too
Mainland China, too, access to an
and advocacy. In inland rural China,
and more. In a way, Oxfam is all about
emagazine@oxfam.org.hk
especially to increase the number of girls
The hot and dusty village of Pista
The Pista Velha School Council,
Velha has one of the best schools in all
comprised of parents, teachers and
of Zambezia.
attending schools.”
other community members, has been
The council assists with management
One of the poorest provinces in
instrumental in achieving the success
and also work s hard to increase
Mozambique and one of the most
of the school. “School councils are key
community awareness on the importance
densely populated, Zambezia was the
to the improvement of education in
of educating their children. The director
most ravaged region in the 17-year
Mozambique,” confirms Maria de Bom
of the Pista Velha primary school,
civil war that left about one million
Jesus, of the district’s Directorate of
Teresa Manuel Henriques, says that the
people dead, about five million people
Education. “The involvement of the
Council’s participation “has actually
displaced, and many schools, hospitals,
community in the educational system
made my work easier, as I now can
roads and bridges destroyed. Only a
has definitely improved the community
share the responsibilities of managing
fraction of the basic infrastructure has
response to access education and
the school.”
been restored.
Making Education Happen in Mozambique Navin Vasudev writes from Johannesburg
Anatércia (centre) studying to be a primary school teacher