Education Above All (EAA) Foundation recently held a reception at the opening of its ‘Reaching 10 Million Out of School Children’ exhibition at W Hotel Doha, in the presence of a number of ambassadors, to mark a “major milestone in its work to empower 10mn marginalised and vulnerable children”.
After the moving exhibition’s initial success at Qatar Academy, EAA relocated its showcase of the challenges millions of children around the world face, and EAA’s work to overcome them, to W Hotel on May 17. 
The exhibition is open to the public until May 30, and with its hashtag #Togetherfor10million and #Itispossible, has been “successful in creating awareness about the barriers to education that 63mn primary-level children around the world face, such as poverty, conflict and natural disasters, and the power education gives them to change their lives for the better”, according to a press statement.
During the exhibition, visitors were chaperoned through a visual representation of the efforts EAA has made over the years to overcome barriers to education around the world. 
The exhibition demonstrates its work in the form of drawings and paintings, and through interactive zones: Conflict Zone, Zone of Peace, Tree Zone and School Zone. In the Conflict Zone, visitors were able to experience a war zone through visuals and sound effects.
The visitors moved to the dark room where a neon light installation of the word ‘education’ in Arabic glowed, to emphasise how education is the light in the darkness. 
For EAA, ‘Knowledge is Light’, and last month it lit up major landmarks in Doha and New York to celebrate its achievement. The light installation was followed by a display of painting, dedicated to EAA’s achievement of reaching 10mn out-of-school children around the world. 
In the Tree Zone, visitors were introduced to some of the challenges refugees face, and were given the opportunity to present their own solutions to educating hard to reach children who face barriers to education. In the School Zone, EAA demonstrated the difference between a school in a well-developed country and a school in a poor country.
Leena al-Derham, senior education specialist of Educate A Child programme, said: “EAA has been reaching out to as many people as possible through various events, avenues and exhibitions not only in Qatar, but globally as well, with the aim to spread awareness about the challenges 63mn primary-level children around the world face, and how education can empower them to overcome those challenges and improve their lives.”