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Yasmine Sherif, Director of Education Cannot Wait said that the number of children and youth in armed conflict, has increased from 75 million to 222 million “over the past four or five years only.” UNIFEED

Launching the Education Cannot Wait’s (ECW) new Annual Results Report, Director Yasmine Sherif told journalists in New York that there are 78.2 million children in conflict affected areas “that don’t even go to school,” while another 190 million receive some education “but can’t read and write, they can’t do math.” UNIFEED

Following a country visit, the Director of Education Cannot Wait (ECW), Yasmine Sherif told journalists in New York that Moldova “is the poorest country in Europe” and refugees now account for nearly 4 percent of a total population of 2.6 million. UNIFEED / FILE

Expanding on Education Cannot Wait’s (ECW) US$5 million Ukraine First Emergency Response grant announced in March, ECW announced a new, initial US$1.5 million allocation to support the education in emergencies response for the Ukraine refugee crisis in Moldova while on mission with strategic partners USAID, FCDO/UKand Theirworld. ECW

As the number of children and youth in desperate need of education skyrockets with the Covid-19 pandemic, ECW (Education Cannot Wait) welcomes significant new funding from Germany. The number of children who have lost access to education across the world has almost doubled since before the COVID-19 pandemic. UNTV CH

The Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council, Jan Egeland, and the Director of Education Cannot Wait, Yasmine Sherif, called for an end to attacks on education in Cameroon during their joint visit to the country. ECW

Education Cannot Wait (ECW) Director, Yasmine Sherif, led the first all-women mission to Afghanistan since Taliban takeover, where she met with the de facto authorities in Kabul, stressing the importance of increasing access to quality education for all children, with an emphasis on adolescent girls, throughout the country. ECW

At the end of an all-female mission to Afghanistan, the Director of Education Cannot Wait, Yasmine Sherif, said a “minimum of one billion USD” must be invested into the country’s education sector and stressed that 20 years of development gains could be lost if immediate action is not taken. UNIFEED

Together with the Government of Burkina Faso, UNICEF and Enfants du Monde, Education Cannot Wait (ECW) – the global fund dedicated to education in emergencies and protracted crises – launched a new multi-year programme that aims to provide education to over 800,000 children and adolescents in crisis-affected regions of the country. ECW