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Encyclopedia > Ecoles Sans Frontières

Ecoles Sans Fronetières (Schools Without Borders) is a French non-governmental organisation (NGO) with volunteers and offices throughout the world to "defend the basic right to education in the respect of human dignity. To develop education and human resources for the underprivileged populations and to contribute to the safeguard of their culture of origin. To facilitate, by teaching, the search for durable solutions for the refugees". The motto of the organisation is "L'instruction, c'est l'espoir" (Education is hope). Volunteers of the ESF worked tiredlessly to help underpriveleged people around the world in refugees camps throughout South East Asia, Haiti and Guatemala. Wiktionary has a definition of: French Wikipedia en français French in its formal sense and used in its capitalized form, denotes: Something from or related to France. ... A non-governmental organization (NGO) is an organization which is not a part of a government. ... NGO is an abbreviation or code for: Non-governmental organization Nagoya Airport (IATA code) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... ESF may stand for: European Science Foundation European Social Forum State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Location of Southeast Asia Southeast Asia is a subregion of Asia. ... Haiti is a country situated on the western third of the island of Hispaniola and the smaller islands of La Gonâve, La Tortue (Tortuga), Grande Caye, and Ile a Vache in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba; the Dominican Republic shares Hispaniola with Haiti. ... The Republic of Guatemala is a country in Central America, in the south of the continent of North America, bordering both the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. ...


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