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“Every morning, 14-year-old Karyna Shvets walks 2 km past piles of rubbish, abandoned buildings and unexploded landmines marked with bright orange ribbons.
“I am now used to walking alone on this road every day,” Karyna says, adjusting her pink backpack, on her way to school. “Last year though it was so scary to walk alone, especially when I could hear shooting from around Donetsk airport.”
“Many of the 50 million uprooted children in the world are in desperate need of education – not despite being uprooted from their homes but because they are uprooted from their homes,” the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) stressed in the report.
“For without education, how will they gain knowledge and skills to rebuild their lives? How will they be able to chart a path to a more peaceful and prosperous future for themselves, their families, their communities and the world?” queried the agency.
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“I hope that all children who have lost their right to learn will go back to school, especially those who have lost their parents. I hope that children will regain safety and security and live in peace and tranquility.“
In London, in a speech at the London School of Economics, she made the case for a step change in global investment in education to address the learning crisis and ensure the world’s children are equipped to meet the challenges of the 21st century.
At least 62 of the nearly 200 schoolgirls who were still missing after a mass Boko Haram abduction in northeast Nigeria in 2014 have been freed, a government official has told Al Jazeera. The girls were in the town of Banki, close to the Nigerian-Cameroonian border, after their release on Saturday, Al Jazeera's Ahmed Idris, reporting from Nigeria's capital, Abuja, said.
Two years of conflict in Yemen have crippled much of the country and its inhabitants, leaving a staggering 18.8 million people in need of humanitarian assistance and preventing two million children from attending school.
Basic services and institutions, including the public education system, are buckling under the pressure of war. Though public education in Yemen remains free for local and refugee children, more than 1,600 schools are now damaged and unfit for use while others remain close to the frontlines, jeopardizing the safety of students.
“There must be more that the Government of Nigeria, with the support of the international community, can do to locate and rescue them. Their continued captivity is a source of immense pain for their families and communities, and is simply unacceptable,” said UN experts.
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Singapore is in top place in the international rankings for education. But it wants the next upgrade of its school system to focus on keeping students positive and resilient.
“South Sudan’s long, brutal civil war has taken a huge toll on the children in that country, recently triggering a famine that threatens a million people, including at least 270,000 children who are severely malnourished.
The protracted conflict in South Sudan has harmed children in many other ways, too. For example, it has driven 3.4 million people from their homes and forced more than 1.8 million children out of school. With their classrooms destroyed and their teachers having fled violence themselves, the window of opportunity for education is closing for tens of thousands of children. Their futures, as well as their lives, are at risk.
19 January 2017 – More than 40 per cent of Syrian refugee children in Turkey are missing out on education, despite a sharp increase in enrolment rates, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said today.
“Unless more resources are provided, there is still a very real risk of a 'lost generation' of Syrian children, deprived of the skills they will one day need to rebuild their country,” said UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Justin Forsyth, speaking after a visit to southern Turkey.
“Some 150 Finnish schools are partaking in a national parent-teacher video conference simultaneously on Wednesday. The aim of the conference is to get the parents of children more involved in the changing school system.”
