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A global advocacy campaign for Education Cannot Wait (part of UNICEF).

According to the UN Education Cannot Wait Fund, the number of children in immediate need of education assistance has been estimated at 35mn children over the past three years, reaching 234mn by the end of 2024. The UN fund indicated that the escalation of conflicts and the impact of climate change increased the number of children in need of assistance in the field of education.

In Cameroon, UN Volunteer Mino De Diana Randrianatoandro serves as an Education Officer and the focal point for the "Education Cannot Wait" initiative. Her work with UNICEF focuses on supporting vulnerable and crisis-affected children through educational programs. Mino plays a key role in planning and distributing educational kits, alleviating financial burdens for parents who cannot afford them.

Organisations like Education Cannot Wait do amazing work delivering education in emergencies through their multi-year resilience programmes and aid that supports them would help plug the $97 billion financing gap for education in low-income nations.

The Executive Director of Education Cannot Wait (ECW), Yasmin Sherif, released a statement on the Day of the African Child,  on 16 June 2024. “As we speak, millions of crisis-affected girls and boys across the African continent are being denied their human right to a quality education. In the absence of financial means to provide a quality education, or still suffering the brunt of protracted conflicts, Africa’s children do not enjoy the same rights as the rest of us. As an immediate consequence, girls are forced into child marriage, boys are recruited into armed groups, millions of children are hungry, and millions more are illiterate. Few of them have any means to move beyond such an existence without receiving an inclusive and continuous quality education.”

Yasmine Sherif, executive director of the U.N. global fund Education Cannot Wait, told a press conference that 650,000 school-age children haven’t been attending classes and the entire education system has to be rebuilt because of the widespread destruction in Gaza.

In Cameroon, UN Volunteer Mino De Diana Randrianatoandro serves as an Education Officer and the focal point for the "Education Cannot Wait" initiative. Her work with UNICEF focuses on supporting vulnerable and crisis-affected children through educational programs. Mino plays a key role in planning and distributing educational kits, alleviating financial burdens for parents who cannot afford them.

Supported by Education Cannot Wait, this initiative underscores the importance of integrating academic improvement with environmental education, ensuring that students are well-equipped to face both educational and ecological challenges in the future.

A new report reveals staggering figures on education : 234 million children miss education, mainly because of conflicts and climate change. That is 35 million more than 3 years ago. Half of them are in Africa. Analysis by Yasmine Sherif, Executive Director of 'Education Cannot Wait,' in New York.

In the current challenging context, Education Cannot Wait (ECW) and the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) work together to ensure no child impacted by a crisis or emergency is left behind. Their collaboration maximizes impact across the humanitarian-development spectrum.

ECW focuses on immediate and multi-year responses in crisis-affected areas, ensuring children in emergencies have access to education when they need it most.

In the current challenging context, Education Cannot Wait (ECW) and the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) work together to ensure no child impacted by a crisis or emergency is left behind.

ECW focuses on immediate and multi-year responses in crisis-affected areas, ensuring children in emergencies have access to education when they need it most.

ECW’s rapid emergency responses complement GPE’s system-building efforts.

Poverty and hunger have devastating effects on educational outcomes and social mobility. Some 84 million children are at risk of being out of education by the 2030 deadline, undermining progress toward universal education. Without an education, adolescents are often forced into work and early marriage, dashing their hopes of a better future. And hunger in the classroom is a powerful impediment to concentration and learning.