June 21 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres, has asked this Tuesday to help the 222 million children around the world who have interrupted their education due to conflicts, displacement and climatic disasters.
“In the face of these crises, the United Nations Fund for Education in Emergencies supports children in 40 countries. We need governments, companies, foundations and individuals to support the vital work of ‘Education Cannot Wait’. can wait’),” he said in a statement.
According to this new study to which Guterres refers, published this week by said UN initiative, the number of children and adolescents affected by crises is much higher than an earlier estimate of 75 million from 2016 and indicates “an alarming trend”. .
“Children should not have to wait for wars to end or the climate crisis to be resolved to have the opportunity to learn and thrive. We must act now to empower them with the education they need to achieve their dreams,” he said in a statement. ECW, the UN global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises.
Specifically, 78.2 million children and adolescents do not go to school, and 16 percent of this figure are forcibly displaced, while 17 percent have functional difficulties, whether in the cognitive, emotional, or behavioral fields. or movement.
Likewise, 84 percent of those out of school live in “protracted crises,” and of these, about two-thirds are in just ten countries: Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Mali, Nigeria, Pakistan, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan and Yemen, according to data in the report.
“This is a global call to action: we are talking about the 222 million dreams that represent each of the 222 million children and adolescents who suffer from the extreme conditions of emergencies and protracted crises”, explained the director ECW’s Yasmine Sherif.
For this reason, he has pointed out that it is a duty to “empower” these children through “quality education” to “make their dreams come true” while “the world struggles with the devastating impacts of armed conflicts, COVID-19 and climate change”.
This campaign has highlighted the effort by donors, the private sector, philanthropic foundations and high net worth individuals to urgently mobilize more resources to increase ECW investment.
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