About

Who made this

Well to Learn was made by Bella Annan, a secondary school student. She chose the subject, ran every interview, and made every editorial call on this site.

She is not a doctor, a lawyer or a statistician.

Why

I tutor elementary students in under-resourced schools. Sitting with the same child week after week, you stop being able to separate the two questions: whether a school is any good, and whether the person sitting in it is doing alright.

I wanted to know whether that held anywhere but my own city. The evidence that it might is public, but it is scattered across agencies and written for governments. So this site puts what the numbers and the treaties actually say in one place, in plain words, for the person they are about.

How it was made

Every number in the Atlas comes from an agency that published it: the World Health Organization, the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, the World Bank, the United Nations Treaty Collection, End Corporal Punishment, and GCPEA. Each value on a country card carries its own year, the kind of number it is, and who published it.

Each number is one of four kinds. Measured means somebody counted it. Modelled means a model estimated it from other numbers. Self-reported means a government answered a questionnaire. Legal means it is what the law or the treaty record says. A country with no number is shown as "no data", never as a zero. More on Methodology.

The site does not rank countries and carries no combined score. It draws no colour for how common mental illness is, because almost 90 per cent of countries have never measured it in children.

The interviews are anonymous: no names, no schools, no towns, not even in the private files. Each person is described by an age band, a UN sub-region, and their schooling status in their own words. Consent was given by the young person and, where they are a minor, by a guardian; it is recorded to the month, never the day. Anyone can withdraw. Every profile was read back against the interview notes, and against safe-messaging guidance from WHO and IASP, before it could appear.

Each legal claim in Your rights quotes the treaty itself and links to the certified text. A data value that cannot be confirmed against its source is greyed out rather than shown.

Where AI helped, and where it did not

Bella used an AI assistant (Claude) as a tool throughout. It wrote the code that fetches the data and builds these pages, drafted explanatory text including this paragraph, and ran the checks. It did not conduct the interviews, and it did not decide what this site says. Anything in the first person about what Bella thinks, or why she made this, is hers. The profiles are built from her notes of what real people said: no quotation is invented, and a paraphrase is labelled as one.

Correct this

If something on this site is wrong, say so and it gets fixed or taken down, including anything in a profile that the person it belongs to wants changed or removed.

Email hello@welltolearn.org

Every correction is recorded with the date it was made and what changed.