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Check out the latest COCO news for everything from reports on new class rooms in East Africa to fundraising in the North East of England.

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Oct 26

Community Fish Project Changing Lives in Kenya

By Caitlin Clark & Lucy Liddle Your support has enabled Niaver CBO to create a community fish project that will support the provision of...

Mar 2

For the Love of Reading

By Rebecca Brett & Lucy Liddle It's 8pm on the 1st March and children across the UK have only just remembered to tell their parents that...

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Mar 17, 2020

Climate Change and Schools for Life

COCO is committed to reducing harmful impacts on the environment. To do so, COCO incorporates environmentally friendly and sustainable...

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Feb 17, 2020

Well done Mshangano Secondary!

There's some friendly competition going on among Schools for Life partners in Tanzania. Watch out Hoja Secondary, Mshangano Secondary are...

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Nov 11, 2019

Anti-Bullying Week

This week it's Anti-Bullying Week: a week focused on raising awareness about bullying and working to prevent it. Whether it is verbal,...

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Oct 24, 2019

Climate change at COCO!

Climate change is a defining issue of today, across the globe. Global sea levels have risen about 8 inches in the last century, the...

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Sep 24, 2019

PreSchools for Life!

Pre-school education is a very important stage of a child’s development, by the age of five, 90% of a child’s brain has already...

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Aug 6, 2019

The Importance of Gender Empowerment through Education and Opportunities

One of the many interlinked issues that COCO is working to alleviate is gender inequality. Such discrimination is often deeply ingrained...

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Feb 6, 2019

COCO Celebrates International Year of Indigenous Languages

This year the world celebrates the International Year of Indigenous Languages. It is celebrated to raise awareness of the importance of...

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Dec 18, 2018

Menstruation and Education

By Lucy Graves, COCO Volunteer COCO believes that education is vitally important in creating opportunities for breaking out of the cycle...

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Nov 19, 2018

Double your donations!

This year we are very excited to be taking part in The Big Give’s Christmas Challenge. Donate through The Big Give between Tuesday 27th...

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Nov 19, 2018

World Toilet Day 2018

By Valtteri Nurminen, COCO Volunteer Today we celebrate the World Toilet Day for the fifth year. The day aims to raise awareness that...

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Nov 9, 2018

A fantastic trip to Litisha

By Jess Hamer This is the second time that I have visited Litisha, and the second time I’ve left the village feeling totally inspired by...

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Oct 17, 2018

INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR THE ERADICATION OF POVERTY – VALTTERI NURMINEN

Today marks 25 years since the United Nations declared 17th of October as the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. But the...

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Jun 15, 2018

Sport and Development – Lorenzo Wareham

Over the past two decades there has been an ever increasing importance placed on the role sport can play in aiding a number of different...

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Mar 20, 2018

International Day of Happiness – Lorenzo Wareham

The International Day of Happiness is a United Nations observed day which aims to promote the pursuit of happiness as a fundamental human...

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Jan 10, 2018

Marginalised Groups – Gender

COCO's belief is that every child should have access to good quality education, regardless of their race, gender, religious beliefs,...

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Jan 5, 2018

Highlights of 2017

In 2017 your support helped to achieve so much in East Africa, here is one highlight from each of the past 12 months. If you want a bit...

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Oct 30, 2017

LGBT RIGHTS IN EAST AFRICA

By Lorenzo Wareham. Within the last decade the LGBT community and those who fight for the equal rights of gay and transsexual people...

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Oct 11, 2017

#DayOfTheGirl

“We cannot succeed when half of us are held back.” – Malala Yousafzai Today is International Day of the Girl, so a perfect time to...

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May 19, 2017

Fifth time top of the region!

Hoja Secondary has once again achieved excellent results in the National Examination of Secondary Education and has been awarded the best...

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