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Our Emergency Schools

STILL I RISE ACADEMY - JUBA

(SOUTH SUDAN)

In December 2025 we opened our Emergency and Rehabilitation School in Juba, the capital of South Sudan. A place that, despite being the country’s political and cultural center, is home to thousands of internally displaced children with no access to education.

Why Juba?

Juba is a rapidly growing city, but one deeply marked by conflict, inequality, and extreme poverty. Many of its residents are displaced people living in overcrowded camps and under harsh conditions. In Juba, children face daily risks of violence, exploitation, and disease. Access to education is limited, especially for girls, who are often forced to drop out of school too early due to early marriage. We want to bring high-quality education to those who have been forgotten, offering a safe and welcoming place that can give them a future.

Our Emergency School

We built a safe place where children can receive not only education, but also emotional support, daily meals, and the chance to simply be children. Here, we are the only school offering high-quality education and rehabilitation completely free of charge. Our Still I Rise Academy - Juba is the first Still I Rise School built entirely from the ground up.

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AL DANA

(SYRIA)

After fourteen years of conflict, Syria remains one of the most severely affected countries in the world. More than 16.7 million people, approximately 70% of the population, currently rely on humanitarian assistance to survive. Over 7 million are internally displaced, while a further 5.6 million live as refugees abroad. The conflict has claimed more than 600,000 lives and destroyed hospitals, schools and entire neighborhoods. Despite the fall of the regime in 2024, Syria’s humanitarian crisis remains among the most severe globally, with significant challenges in accessing food, water, healthcare and safe shelter.

In March 2011, the Syrian conflict erupted when young people in Deraa defied the government, sparking nationwide protests against the regime of Bashar al-Assad. Assad's brutal response triggered a complex civil war, with opposition factions initially divided internally. The conflict was further complicated by the entry of Kurdish militias and ISIS, bringing international actors into the fight as well. As always, those who suffer the devastating impact of the conflict are always civilians, expendable pawns at the altar of geopolitics.

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KOLWEZI

(DRC)

A "silent holocaust" is taking place in the Democratic Republic of Congo. After more than 30 years of conflict, there are more than 6 million victims, 5.7 million internally displaced persons, and 60 million people living in extreme poverty. To date, there are 25.4 million people in need of immediate humanitarian assistance, one in four, including 14.2 million children-more than any other country on earth.

Yet DRCongo is one of the richest countries in the world in natural resources, with an estimated $24 trillion of raw materials in the ground. Globally, Congo produces 70 percent of cobalt and 60 percent of coltan, essential minerals in the production of lithium batteries and thus fundamental to the so-called "Green Revolution." The five largest cobalt mines in the world are located in the Lualaba town of Kolwezi, and 85 percent of them are controlled by Chinese multinationals. Here tens of thousands of children work in semi-slavery conditions for an average compensation of $2 a day. It is precisely in Kolwezi, the Cobalt Capital of the World, that we have opened a School to give child miners their childhood back.

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ADEN

(YEMEN)

The Yemeni conflict is considered the world's most serious humanitarian crisis, yet even after a decade since its beginning, it remains one of the most unknown. The conflict has caused the economy to collapse, relegating more than 80 percent of the population below the poverty line, with more than 2.2 million children suffering from acute malnutrition. Nevertheless, both the media and the international community continue to ignore the emergency.

Yemen's civil war began in 2014. In 2015, the conflict took on a global dimension. In August 2015, the conflict led to the division of Yemen into two separate regions.

With allegations of human rights violations and attacks on civilian sites by conflicting parties, more than 377,000 civilians died of which 60 percent due to famine and limited access to health services.

In April 2022, a six-month ceasefire was not renewed. Peace talks, facilitated by neighboring countries, resumed in April 2023 but violence on both sides continues.