Photos

These photos covering Education for All themes were taken in the different regions of the world. You are welcome to download these images and use them providing you include the following credit: ©UNESCO/Full name of photographer

EFA Global Monitoring Report 2009 Photo Gallery

EFA 2009 Photo Gallery - also available in FrenchSpanish

Selected Photos

In previous years we have also offered a selection of photos for the theme Early childhood and some more in this slideshow:

Uganda - An ActionAid adult literacy programme

Bangladesh - Community Learning Centres (Ganokendra)

Baniyar Kandar's Twilight Ganokendra (people's centre), Jheneidah region, western Bangladesh. Fatema Khatun, 55, didn't go to school as a girl because of social taboos. At the Ganokendra she has learned how to take care of her health and has become an expert on how to make a fuel-efficient stove, which prevents smoke filling the home.

Burundi - UNESCO Literacy Programme in Buterere (Bujumbura ’Mairie‘ Province)

Burundi - UNESCO Literacy Programme in Buterere (Bujumbura ’Mairie‘ Province)

India - 15-16 year olds at Katha public school, Govinpuri slums (south Delhi)

A group taking notes as one of them reads from a biography of Indian Scientist Hargobind Khurana, the nobel laureate who researched cloning.

Mali - Literacy classes provided by SOLI AM (Solidarité des aides ménagères)

Berthe Bagayoko, trainer, teaches reading and writing to young women(assistant housewives) in her district - Djicoroni - Para

Mali - Courtyard class

Literacy classes provided by SOLI AM (Solidarité des aides ménagères)

Mali - Literacy classes provided by SOLI AM (Solidarité des aides ménagères)

Berthe Bagayoko, trainer, teaches reading and writing to young women(assistant housewives) in her district - Djicoroni - Para

Mali - Literacy classes provided by SOLI AM (Solidarité des aides ménagères)

Berthe Bagayoko, trainer, teaches reading and writing to young women(assistant housewives) in her district - Djicoroni - Para

Mexico - Outdoor classroom - Tzotzil women adore learning even if tools teaching are very modest...mexico

Training Centre - Association of women teachers in Mali (AFEM)

Venezuela - A literacy centre for the visually impaired

The Robinson Mission is the national literacy program launched by President Hugo Chavez. This program is based on the Yo Si Puedo method conceived by the Cuban expert Leonela Relys. It addresses adults of various ages from various job situations including the unemployed. In six to eight weeks, it teaches reading, writing in Spanish as well as in the 34 languages of ethnic minorities, through spoken words, sign language or brail and gives access to citizenship to all participants. An old lady proudly showing off her book.

UNESCO Photobank

For more print-quality, high-resolution images you are invited to visit the UNESCO Photobank where you will also find a much larger collection of photos.

You may also contact our colleagues at the UNESCO Photobank per email: photobank(at)unesco.org