About us Our Impact Our Impact Education opens the door to a whole world of opportunity and creates lasting change. Over the last 12 years, United World Schools have built 250 schools, trained 1,200 teachers and reached over 43,000 children in Cambodia, Nepal and Myanmar with a life-changing education. Click the link below to read our latest Annual Report, and find out how your support is transforming lives. Read our Annual Report Making a difference Educating children Every child deserves a quality education. We've provided over 43,000 primary school aged children with an education, who otherwise would never have had that chance. We educate children because it is their right - and the impact of that education can be felt for generations. For each additional year of schooling, a child’s future income increases by up to 10%. If all students in low income countries acquired basic reading skills, 171 million people would have the skills and the opportunities to lift themselves out of poverty (Source: Education for All Global Monitoring Report). Supporting teachers We recruit, train and develop teachers from within local communities to work alongside government teachers. This provides new job opportunities and ensures that the education we provide is relevant to local contexts. This is particularly valuable in communities which do not speak the national language. Employing local teachers who speak the children's mother tongue protects indigenous cultures and improves learning. All the teachers we work with receive ongoing training and professional development to ensure they can deliver a high quality, inclusive and child-centred education. Empowering communities We collaborate with communities that want and need our support, empowering them to build a better life for their children. We work closely with each community to establish a school, involving local people at every step and amplifying their voices. From the outset, we set up a School Support Committee. This governing body of parents and local leaders is committed to the development of the school, helping each one to grow and flourish. We work closely with families to address barriers to education while raising awareness of the rights of all children to receive a quality education. School Support Committees are gender-balanced and promote girls’ education within their communities. Meet Juna Teacher, Nepal Juna is 20 years old and from a remote village in Nepal. When we built a school near her community, Juna was recruited and trained as a local teacher. Now she teaches the kindergarten class at the school, having received early years training from education specialists. Despite being the youngest teacher at the school, Juna is determined to have a positive impact. Plastic is a major environmental issue for many rural communities in Nepal, as they often do not have access to the infrastructure to dispose of the growing amount of single-use plastic packaging. Juna has been teaching her students how to re-use plastic, creating hanging baskets made out of bottles to decorate the school. Juna's innovation and determination for change is a real inspiration to her students and her community. Read next Our strategy Where we work Fundraising