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In times of crisis, education is an essential component of humanitarian intervention packages, South Sudan’s Minister of General Education and Instruction Awut Deng Acuil told IPS in an exclusive interview.

30 ans après l’inauguration – avec le Bénin – du projet de la Route de l’esclave, Haïti lance, aux côtés de la Suisse cette fois, une nouvelle initiative d’envergure à l’UNESCO : le Groupe pour l’éducation en situation d’urgence.

Initié par la République d’Haïti et la Confédération Suisse, le Groupe pour l’éducation en situation d’urgence a officiellement vu le jour le lundi 17 juillet avec la tenue de sa première réunion de haut niveau à l’UNESCO, après plus de six mois de gestation et de travail.

If you want lasting peace, the best investment you can make is in education, said Education Cannot Wait’s Executive Director Yasmine Sherif in an exclusive interview with IPS.

“(This will) make children and adolescents literate, learn critical thinking, address trauma and psycho-social challenges from being victims of a conflict or crisis, develop their potential, and become financially independent,” Sherif said, adding that these were critical skills to participate in good governance of their countries in the future.

The humanitarian aid organization, World Vision, through the project "Education Cannot Wait" managed to rehabilitate classrooms and bathrooms in educational institutions in Cúcuta, Norte de Santander. This was achieved with the support of the Ministry of Education to increase the quality and improve access to education for more than 300 girls and boys belonging to the migrant, returnee and host population.

Education Cannot Wait (ECW), an organization dedicated to providing education to children affected by crises, was honored with a bronze award. Its overhauled website, developed in partnership with Vardot, received recognition for its outstanding achievement. By employing effective design and user-friendly navigation, the new Drupal-driven platform enhances ECW’s capacity to engage and communicate with its audience more efficiently, thus promoting its mission.

Children's right to education is a human right. Swedish UN veteran Yasmine Sherif is sure of her cause. The most effective way to enslave people is to prevent them from going to school, which is happening with the girls in Afghanistan, she says.

Canada will be represented at the United Nations High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development in New York on July 19, 2023, by a broad cross-section of Canadian society. 

Hon har arbetat i hela världen, men det är i Stockholm hennes rötter finns. När FN-veteranen Yasmine Sherif under några sommardagar besöker den svenska huvudstaden är det med en uppmaning att relationen mellan hemlandet och världssamfundet ska utvecklas.

Une importante délégation canadienne représentera le Canada au Forum politique de haut niveau pour le développement durable des Nations Unies, qui se tiendra à New York le 19 juillet 2023.

As the 2030 deadline for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) looms, Education Cannot Wait’s director Yasmine Sherif warned, “We are failing the promises we made on everything in the sustainable development goals, but especially on education because, without education, we cannot achieve any of the other sustainable development goals.”

We all know and agree that patience is a virtue. It is indeed. With one exception.In the face of a child’s suffering, impatience is the highest virtue. Or as we say in the spirit of Education Cannot Wait: “We must be unapologetically impatient” in our collective goal to reach 224 million crisis-affected children and adolescents with quality education.

We all know and agree that patience is a virtue. It is indeed. With one exception.In the face of a child's suffering, impatience is the highest virtue. Or as we say in the spirit of Education Cannot Wait:“We must be unapologetically impatient” in our collective goal to reach 224 million crisis-affected children and adolescents with quality education.