Undocumented
Thousands of children born in informal settlements have no birth certificate, and therefore no school, no clinic, and no legal age.
Education programme
We do not only write about these children. We teach them.
Literacy, numeracy, and reporting, taught three afternoons a week in Amman, Beirut, and Cox’s Bazar. Children who can describe their own conditions accurately are harder to overlook.
Girls
Half the children we report on are girls. Their absence from the record is not accidental.
Where schooling stops for girls, documentation usually stops with it. We report on that sequence specifically, and four of our contributors are girls under sixteen.
Children displaced by conflict and violence worldwide
Source: UNICEF
Children and young people out of school worldwide
Source: UNESCO
Children living in areas affected by armed conflict
Source: UNICEF
The ledger
Twenty-seven countries, and what the record says about each.
Where we work
Twenty-one countries. Every marker is a person who reports to us.
Get involved
Three ways to be useful. None of them involve money.
Volunteer
Translation, research, verification, and teaching. Remote and in-country roles.
Apply for a senior position
Country representatives, desk editors, and programme leads. Applications are read monthly.
Raise a story
Tell us about a child we should know about. Every submission is read by an editor.