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On Tuesday, the Duchess of Edinburgh wore a beautiful Suzannah London tea dress in a 'stormy hearts' design as she met with Education Cannot Wait, a global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises. A post from the charitable organisation showed the Duchess at work with the caption, "A most inspiring and productive meeting between HRH The Duchess of Edinburgh and @YasmineSherif_1. Thank you, Your Highness, for an unwavering commitment to girls’ education and interest in the work of #EducationCannotWait!"

The enrollment campaign formally commenced on Wednesday to attract out-of-school children to education in Charsadda district.

Mayor Charsadda Mufti Abdul Rauf Shakir and Additional Commissioner Waqas-ur-Rehman launched the admission campaign by distributing school bags among the children at TMA Hall Charsadda.

Over the past four years, the number of school closures due to insecurity has almost doubled, reaching more than 13,200 closed schools in eight countries of the region. The education of 2.5 million children is directly endangered, warns the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). Governments, armed forces, other parties to conflict, and the international community should take concerted action to stop attacks and threats against schools, students and teachers, and to strengthen sustainable support for quality learning for every child in the region.

Coincidiendo con el inicio del curso escolar en España, Plan International, organización que trabaja para garantizar los derechos de la infancia y la igualdad de las niñas, alerta sobre una crisis educativa global de proporciones alarmantes. 224 millones de niños, niñas y adolescentes en edad escolar viven en contextos de crisis, y, de ellos, el 32%, es decir 72 millones, están fuera de las escuelas, según datos del último informe de Naciones Unidas Education Cannot Wait, de junio de 2023.

With hope and courage, we must rise to the challenges before us. We must rise to the challenge of a world set afire by climate change, forced displacement, armed conflicts and human rights abuses. We must rise to the challenge of girls being denied their right to an education in Afghanistan. We must rise to the challenge of a global refugee crisis that is disrupting development gains the world over. We must rise to the challenge of brutal and unconscionable wars in places like Sudan and Ukraine that are putting millions of children at risk every day. 

Se per tanti di noi l’inizio della scuola è qualcosa di scontato, non ovunque nel mondo è così. In Moldova, per esempio, Paese formalmente in pace ma la cui quotidianità è stata stravolta nell’ultimo anno e mezzo dall’arrivo di migliaia e migliaia di profughi fuggiti dalla confinante Ucraina, le difficoltà non sono poche, e l’estate da poco finita sarà ricordata da tanti alunni e insegnanti come un periodo di incertezza, che ha però portato al lieto fine di un nuovo anno scolastico pronto a partire alla grande, grazie al supporto di Amici dei Bambini.

United Nations & Nairobi — In a world set on fire by climate change and brutal conflict, millions of children in emergencies and protracted crises need educational support. Children in 48 out of 49 African countries are at high or extremely high risk of the impacts of climate change, particularly in the Central African Republic, Chad, Nigeria, Guinea, Somalia, and Guinea Bissau.

11 กันยายน 2566-ในวันที่ 8 กันยายน ขณะที่ทั่วโลกเฉลิมฉลองวันที่ระลึกสากลแห่งการรู้หนังสือ (International Literacy Day) รวมถึงพลังของการศึกษาในการสร้างสังคมที่สงบสุขและยั่งยืน กองทุนโลกเพื่อการศึกษาในภาวะฉุกเฉิน (Education Cannot Wait หรือ ECW) ซึ่งเป็นกองทุนสนับสนุนการศึกษาในภาวะฉุกเฉินและวิกฤตที่ยืดเยื้อขององค์การสหประชาชาติ ได้ออกมาเรียกร้องให้ผู้นำโลกยกระดับการสนับสนุนทางการเงิน

In a world set on fire by climate change and brutal conflict, millions of children in emergencies and protracted crises need educational support. Children in 48 out of 49 African countries are at high or extremely high risk of the impacts of climate change, particularly in the Central African Republic, Chad, Nigeria, Guinea, Somalia, and Guinea Bissau.

The past two decades have marked an important transitional period in Qatar’s domestic and international developments, in which one cannot oversee its major strides in the education sector, which stands as a key pillar within the country’s vision.

The establishment of Qatar Foundation (QF) in 1995 by Sheikha Moza bint Nasser represented one of the most prominent milestones in the Gulf nation’s development, positioning Doha as an educational hub in the region and beyond.

The UN global fund for education in emergencies, Education Cannot Wait (ECW), on Friday called on world leaders to scale up financial support to aid in emergencies and protracted crises.

The plea was launched as world leaders are gathering at the UN headquarters in New York in 10 days for the General Debate of the UN General Assembly. ECW's 2022 Annual Results Report said the fund and its global partners reached 8.8 million children with quality, holistic education since its founding in 2016 and more than 4.2 million last year alone.

By the end of the 2022-23 school year, thousands of schools were closed in Cameroon

The schools were closed either because they were a direct target of attacks by Non-State Armed Groups (NSAGs) or because teachers have fled leaving no-one to teach, or because parents are too frightened to send their children to school or are themselves in a process of repeated forced displacement to safer areas. Not to mention that due to the impact of the three humanitarian crises affecting Cameroon, including the cholera epidemic, and recurrent floodings in the Far North region, 1.4 million school-aged children need humanitarian assistance in education in 2023.