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Join Education Cannot Wait’s #222MillionDreams✨📚 Campaign and help us turn the dreams of the world’s 222 million crisis-affected children and adolescents into reality!
UN Secretary-General Statement
"Education Cannot Wait. Help us place education within reach
of every child, everywhere. Help us keep 222 million dreams alive."
According to new global estimates, 222 million crisis-affected children and adolescents are in need of education support. This is a substantial increase from previous estimates, pointing to an alarming trend and a global education crisis. Access to a quality education in times of humanitarian crisis is not only the right of every child, it can also be both life-saving and life-sustaining.
The #222MillionDreams✨📚 Campaign calls on world leaders to make substantive funding contributions to ECW. Millions of vulnerable girls and boys around the world await our collective action. From inside makeshift refugee settlements, damaged walls of classrooms and communities torn apart by war, these 222 million children are desperately holding on to the hope that education will allow them to realize their dreams.
ECW calls for urgent additional financing to reach the 222 million children left furthest behind in emergencies and protracted crises. With ECW’s High-Level Financing Conference on the horizon (February 2023), now is the time for world leaders to turn commitments into action by filling ECW’s $1.5 billion funding gap to ensure these girls and boys can access safe, inclusive quality education.
António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations
Amina J. Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations
The Rt. Hon. Gordon Brown, UN Special Envoy for Global Education and Chair of ECW High-Level Steering Group
Ignazio Cassis, President of the Swiss Confederation
Anne Beathe Tvinnereim, Minister of International Development, Norway
Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Harjit S. Sajjan, Minister of International Development, Canada
Patricia Danzi, Ambassador, Director General of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
Global Citizen
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222 million children's dreams are on hold due to preventable factors like climate crisis, war and conflict. Access to education is a right for every child, and in times of humanitarian crisis, it can be life-saving. Make a sign using one of the slogans suggested and upload a picture holding it