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From the war in Ukraine to the response in health crisis and providing life-saving humanitarian aid, the work of the United Nations remained vital in a year marked by multiple overlapping crises. UNIFEED

With COVID-19 exposing the fault-lines of education systems globally, more than 130 countries committed to rebooting their education systems and accelerating action to end the learning crisis, at the UN Transforming Education Summit. UNIFEED

Addressing Leaders Day at the Transforming Education Summit taking place at UN Headquarters, Secretary-General António Guterres said, “instead of being the great enabler, education is fast becoming a great divider,” and called for a “new vision for education in the 21st century.” UNIFEED

The impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine is having a severe negative impact on the economic prospects for Europe, the IMF said Friday in Washington, DC. IMF

Somalia and the United Nations culture and education agency (UNESCO) today signed an agreement aimed at strengthening efforts to preserve the country’s cultural heritage and improve its educational sector. UNSOM

In rural eastern Rwanda, cultural boundary lines are being erased every day through education policies that bring refugee and local children together - as at one school supported by UNHCR where community is being built, one friendship at a time. UNHCR

Ever since Kenya reported a polio outbreak in May 2013, UNICEF and its partners have been exploring a number of strategies to reach the children under the age of five that have not been vaccinated. The Mtoto Kwa Mtoto or Child- to-child initiative, mobilizes school children in the effort to identify and vaccinate these children against the polio. UNICEF

AnthonyLake, UNICEF’s Executive Director was recently at MixinPrimary schoolin a remote part ofYunnanProvincein South West China.  He was there to see how a new model of social and emotional learning is changing the way teachers engage their students. UNICEF  

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Ron Suskind spoke at the UN about his family’s 20-year journey with their son Owen’s autism. In an interview with UNIFEED, he stressed that this is a global issue and “governments cannot afford not to put money into it.” Today is World Autism Awareness Day. UNTV

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon designated world-renowned pianist Lang Lang from China as a UN Messenger of Peace with a special focus on global education. Lang Lang said the world is “having a problem with education” and that because of his young age he “will be able to connect with young people” and help “make a better education environment for the world.” UNTV