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The Winchester Sun

Reebok and Global Citizen Unveil the First Take Action Collaboration

Global Citizen's platform empowers people everywhere to take action on the most urgent issues our world is facing, and advocates for systemic change surrounding the issues perpetuating extreme poverty. The Reebok x Take Action collection encourages consumers to join the movement by educating themselves about some of the most prevalent issues facing vulnerable populations, including the systemic issues that lead to cycles of poverty and discrimination. Each product in the collection contains a QR code that drives consumers to the Take Action platform, which features in-depth resources on these topics. The collection will also offer consumers a direct path to take action, such as signing a petition in support of Education Cannot Wait (ECW) to call on world leaders to help ensure everyone – including our most marginalized populations – has access to education.

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Reebok and Global Citizen Unveil the First Take Action Collaboration

Global Citizen's platform empowers people everywhere to take action on the most urgent issues our world is facing, and advocates for systemic change surrounding the issues perpetuating extreme poverty. The Reebok x Take Action collection encourages consumers to join the movement by educating themselves about some of the most prevalent issues facing vulnerable populations, including the systemic issues that lead to cycles of poverty and discrimination. Each product in the collection contains a QR code that drives consumers to the Take Action platform, which features in-depth resources on these topics. The collection will also offer consumers a direct path to take action, such as signing a petition in support of Education Cannot Wait (ECW) to call on world leaders to help ensure everyone – including our most marginalized populations – has access to education.

Royal Norwegian Embassy in Juba

Norway and UNICEF Join Hands to Support Girls’ Education and Child Protection in South Sudan

Norway and UNICEF share a strong commitment to the children of South Sudan. During the outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic, Norway has been a leading partner in ensuring continuity of learning during school closures and getting learning back on track for children in South Sudan, especially the most marginalized. Among key results in 2021, over 556,000 children and adolescents aged 3-18 were enabled to access education services. More than 119,000 children and adolescents in Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) sites and camps were also supported to access education.

Norway has invested heavily in the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) and Education Cannot Wait (ECW) programmes through UNICEF and other partners which are providing much-needed education for children across the world including in conflict situations in South Sudan.

BBC News Swahili

Sudan crisis: Millions of children miss going to school

UNICEF ​​estimates that even before the war broke out, nearly seven million children were already out of school in Sudan due to poverty and instability. Now more than six and a half million children are out of school due to the fighting — while more than five million children have been affected by school closures.

"Children cannot go to school because of violence. They are also at risk of sexual, gender-based violence and need physical protection as well as teachers," says Yasmine Sherif, executive director of Education Cannot Wait.

Daily Islamabad Post

KPK govt schools in Swabi district open early childhood education centers

ISLAMABAD, OCT 18 – UNICEF and Hashoo Foundation, in collaboration with the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Elementary and Secondary Education Department (E&SED), are proud to announce the inauguration of 500 Early Childhood Education (ECE) classrooms across twenty-three districts in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). This transformative initiative is made possible through funding from the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) and Education Cannot Wait (ECW).

Aligned with the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Education Sector Plan 2020-2025, the E&SED underscores the critical role of ECE in a child’s development and learning, making it a top priority for the region. To actualize this commitment, the existing 13,000 Katchi classrooms in primary schools will be converted into modern ECE classrooms.

The Nation

500 ECE centres to be opened in KP govt schools

The funding for these projects is provided by the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) and Education Cannot Wait (ECW), supporting 1,600 centres and 100 centres, respectively. This initiative is set to benefit over 96,000 children in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

UNICEF has a long-standing partnership with the E&SED, offering technical and financial assistance to enhance educational opportunities, particularly for girls, and to improve education service delivery through evidence-based planning. Their collaboration focuses on multiple areas, including access, equity, inclusion, quality, governance, and management of education. 

UNICEF

School windows in Ukraine strengthened with shatter-resistant film

Today, Lyceum No.1 is one of the few educational institutions in the Mykolaivska region that is fully operational. Currently, more than 700 students study here, including children from neighboring villages and internally displaced children from areas where shelling continues.

To help ensure their safety, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the UN global fund Education Cannot Wait (ECW) have installed shatter-resistant film (SRF) on the windows. It is one of 23 schools in Ukraine’s Mykolaivska and Odeska regions to have received the SRF, which is vital amid the daily threat of shelling and unexploded ordnance. 

BBC

BBC show is a 'lifeline' for Afghan girls, UN says

The show, which has just launched its second series on TV, online and radio, is hosted by BBC female journalists who themselves fled Kabul more than two years ago, after the Taliban's return to power.

Any form of learning "provides safety hope and opportunity", says Yasmine Sherif, the executive director of Education Cannot Wait, the United Nations global fund for the education of children in crisis.

"Community-based education or remote learning, such as the BBC's Dars programme, offers them the learning lifeline which they so desperately need," she adds.

Dépêches du Mali

Éducation au Mali : Près de 500 mille enfants privés de leur droit fondamental

Pour apporter une réponse au phénomène de non-scolarisation ou de déscolarisation, les jeunes ambassadeurs de la rentrée scolaire contribuent à renforcer le dialogue dans leurs communautés sur l’importance de l’éducation grâce à des activités de porte-à-porte, des émissions radiophoniques et des séances de dialogue communautaire. De 2019 à 2023, 286 598 enfants hors de l’école (dont 120 375 filles) ont été insérés/réinsérés grâce à l’Unicef avec l’appui financier de l’Allemagne, l’Autriche, Education cannot wait (l’Éducation ne peut pas attendre), le fonds de Consolidation pour la paix, la Norvège, le Partenariat mondial pour l’éducation (PME), UNICEF Espagne, et l’Union Européenne.

Ecuador Envivo

Call for applications for the Multiannual Resilience Program (MYRP) in Ecuador

The “Multi-annual Resilience Program” MYRP, for its acronym in English, seeks to improve the resilience of the educational system to guarantee the right to education of children and adolescents, migrants and the host community, in a context of crisis in the educational sector affected by high rates of violence and insecurity, natural disasters linked to the climate change crisis and the post-pandemic effects that impact both learning levels and mental health.

The MYRP will be implemented with a seed fund of 8 million granted by the “Education Cannot Wait” fund during the period 2024 – 2026 and requires the selection of a recipient (“grantee”) of the fund to manage the resources and develop the proposal of the program. The grantee can be a consortium or an organization that has both technical and territorial capacity.

The Clanton Advertiser

Empower Her - ECW Executive Director Yasmine Sherif Statement on International Day of the Girl Child

Girls are the future. They are agents of positive change and potential in a world torn apart by conflicts and chaos. On this International Day of the Girl Child, Education Cannot Wait joins girls, women and people everywhere in calling for an end to the oppression of girls, an end to gender-based violence and sexual abuse, an end to child marriage, an end to unpaid work and an end to any form of subjugation. Our voices will not be silenced.

MagnoliaStateLive

Empower Her - ECW Executive Director Yasmine Sherif Statement on International Day of the Girl Child

Girls are the future. They are agents of positive change and potential in a world torn apart by conflicts and chaos. On this International Day of the Girl Child, Education Cannot Wait joins girls, women and people everywhere in calling for an end to the oppression of girls, an end to gender-based violence and sexual abuse, an end to child marriage, an end to unpaid work and an end to any form of subjugation. Our voices will not be silenced.