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With new contributions from Germany, United States of America, European Union/European Commission, The LEGO Foundation, France, Switzerland, and Porticus, ECW and partners are building a movement to reach millions of the world's crisis-affected children and youth with the safety, hope and opportunity of a quality education.

La Unión Europea (UE) va a contribuir con 140 millones de euros para mejorar la seguridad alimentaria mundial y con 25 millones más para educación de niños en contextos de crisis, anunció este sábado la presidenta de la Comisión Europea (UE), Ursula von der Leyen.

“The humanitarian crises that are happening in Haiti and Afghanistan are unimaginable and only intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Thomas Kirk Kristiansen, chairman of the LEGO Foundation.

Gordon Brown OpEd on Education in Afghanistan. Taliban leaders ask us to believe that they will not return to the oppression of their pre-2001 rule, when they persecuted women, violated the basic rights of girls and denied them education. Sadly, actions on the ground do not yet bear this out.

A year after the deadly blasts that rocked Beirut, UNESCO’s Assistant Director-General for Education Stefania Giannini was back this week to the Lebanese capital to stand in solidarity with its people, and reflect on the concrete results achieved by the Li Beirut initiative launched in the aftermath of the explosions, and which aims to place education and culture at the heart of the reconstruction efforts.

En un contexto de grave crisis humanitaria y sin un apoyo urgente, el número de niños sin escolarizar podría aumentar a seis millones en el país, según Unicef. Su representante en terreno cuenta los efectos en toda una generación

During June’s UN Security Council High-Level Open Debate on Children and Armed Conflict, leaders from across the world stood up to call for expanded support for education in emergencies to protect vulnerable children and youth enduring armed conflicts, climate change-related disasters, forced displacement and protracted crises.

El programa “La Educación no puede esperar” reunió a líderes en materia de educación, niños, niñas y adolescentes, entre otros actores claves, en un primer acercamiento que permitió reflexionar, desmitificar, dialogar y plantear acciones, en torno a las oportunidades y desafíos en la educación.

In 2021, COVID-19 continued to plague the world – a world already burdened by armed conflicts, climate-induced disasters and forced displacement. Communities, nations and people struggled to maintain normalcy in the midst of the abnormal. This was especially notable in the education sector – a sector that is the very foundation for achieving all human rights and all Sustainable Development Goals.

Organizations on the ground in Gaza are offering emergency humanitarian aid and need support.

Education Cannot Wait has given a $1 million grant to ensure refugee children and youth arriving in Cameroon from the Central African Republic have access to quality learning.